Windmoeller & Hoelscher

LINCOLN, R.I.—Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation announces the sale of a 52˝ (1,320 mm) 8-color PRIMAFLEX CM printing press to Farnell Packaging Ltd. of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The press will be installed at the company’s Dartmouth facility in June of this year. This will be Farnell’s second W&H flexographic press, after the installation of an 8-color NOVOFLEX in 2003. Farnell Packaging made the decision to invest in the new press to expand current capacity levels and to take on new business that it previously could not support. According to Farnell’s V.P. of Operations, Danny Christianson, the business is high-end process printing. “The PRIMAFLEX will give

LINCOLN, R.I.—Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation announces the sale of a 52˝ (1,320 mm) 8-color PRIMAFLEX CM printing press to Global Packaging. The press will be shipped in June to the company’s Oaks, Pa. facility for installation this summer. This will be Global’s second W&H flexographic press, after the installation of a 10-color NOVOFLEX CM in 2004. According to company President Michael Frost, Global’s investment in the 8-color PRIMAFLEX will add significantly more printing capacity to its current manufacturing operations. “We have always purchased the best printing equipment available in the marketplace, and the PRIMAFLEX is a continuation of this approach,” he explains. “The

LINCOLN, R.I.—Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation announces the sale of a 52˝ (1,320 mm) 8-color PRIMAFLEX CM printing press to first-time customer, Flexographic Packaging Company (FPC), of Waupun, Wis. The press will be shipped to FPC’s Waupun facility in September 2007 for installation this fall. FPC President David Puente explained that the company is focused on supporting the smaller accounts which large suppliers might pass up. The new PRIMAFLEX will allow FPC to serve more customers with the capabilities of this press. “We have more and more requests for process work to be done, and this press will allow us to do the quality process

LINCOLN, R.I.—Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation announces the sale of an 8-color 52˝ (1,320 mm) PRIMAFLEX CL flexographic printing press to the Pioneer Balloon Company of Wichita, KS. The press was installed at the company’s El Dorado, KS plant in early December 2006 and is now fully operational. The PRIMAFLEX CL represents W&H’s latest variation PRIMAFLEX central impression flexographic sleeve press. It differs from other PRIMAFLEX versions due to its extended repeat length which features a maximum print repeat of 42.1˝ (1070 mm). W&H’s other PRIMAFLEX variations—the CM and CS—feature repeat lengths up to 31.5˝ (800 mm). According to Pioneer Balloon’s Executive Vice President Betty

LINCOLN, R.I.—Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation announced the sale of a 59” NOVOFLEX® CM 10-color flexo press to Admiral Packaging, Inc. (formerly Union Industries, Inc.) of Providence, R.I. The press will be shipped to the customer’s Providence facility in July 2007 for installation in August of next year. A long-standing W&H customer, Admiral Packaging purchased its first W&H press back in 1982. The NOVOFLEX® CM represents the company’s seventh investment in W&H equipment. “We chose W&H based on our findings that the NOVOFLEX® press is superior in workmanship, technology and performance trials,” states Admiral Packaging President Harley Frank. “W&H has really made dramatic improvements over

Wide-web printers are facing a transforming marketplace. The changes, however, are in many ways advantageous for wide-web print shops. For instance, consider the switch many brand owners have made in their packaging, swapping rigid packaging materials for retort and stand-up pouches. These packaging innovations have created a fast-growing market segment that benefits wide-web printers. In addition, competition on store shelves has forced brand owners to require higher print quality in their packaging in an attempt to make their products stand out from the crowd. This, in turn, has required wide-web press manufacturers to produce equipment that enables printers to meet and surpass these demands.

With so much focus on the narrow-web printing industry, many advances in wide-web presses have taken place under the radar. There have been a myriad of production enhancements, including faster changeovers, less waste, faster speeds, and higher productivity and quality. Technological enhancements across the board have increased the efficiency, economics, and caliber of wide-web printed packaging. These advances have attracted a lot of attention. “I see a continued high interest in any and all technological improvements associated with increasing productivity, quality and, of course, enhancing the profitability of the converter,” said Randy Wolf, product development manager, Comexi North America. In the June issue of packagePRINTING, we