Automatic Roll Changes Increase Throughput

With the addition of a new Martin MBSF butt splicer on a new 13˝ Nilpeter SG3300 press, El Paso, Texas-based General Labels increased its production throughput by nearly 40 percent.

Jose Gerardo, president of General Labels, says, "We needed to increase our hourly throughput and we also wanted to reduce our scrap. There are two sides to that coin—one was the elimination of manual roll changes, which required us to stop every time we had to change a roll. The other was consistency in our ink laydown. We're now running one long continuous run without having to stop. Before we added the Martin, we could only do about 160,000 pieces with a 10-inch repeat and now we can approach a quarter of a million per day. And we're doing that with less equipment."