Boutwell Owens Installing Highcon Euclid II+

Boutwell Owens & Co., of Fitchburg, MA, is in the process of installing a Highcon Euclid II+ digital cutting and creasing machine. Boutwell Owens is a printing and packaging manufacturer of folding cartons and blister cards that has been in business for more than 125 years. It makes skin packaging, folders, inserts, and labels for the pharmaceutical, electronics, and cosmetic industries on offset, web, flexo, and digital presses. Its customer base extends across North America, into Europe and to the Pacific Rim.

The Euclid is being installed in a new digital room, alongside the company’s recently acquired HP 30000 digital press.

Ward McLaughlin, president of Boutwell Owens, said, "We are a progressive company, focused on helping our customers expand and take a better position in the marketplace. With the Highcon Euclid, we can offer them differentiation, responsiveness and fast turnaround that no other machine can match. Digital finishing means we can finally allow designers a free reign to throw away the old rules of development and be more adventurous."

The Highcon Euclid II+ is the second generation digital cutting and creasing machine for converting paper, labels, folding carton and microflute. The Euclid machines incorporate Highcon’s patented ‘DART’ (Digital Adhesive Rule Technology) to produce creases, and high-speed laser optics for cutting and etching.