Menasha Packaging Adds KBA Rapida Eight-Color Press

Menasha Packaging’s York, PA facility will be enhancing its productivity with a unique new high-performance KBA Rapida 145 57-inch eight-color press with full UV capabilities and logistics this spring. The new press will begin production in May 2015.

“Our expertise is the in-store merchandising industry in which we provide point-of-purchase (POP)/point-of-sale (POS), folding carton, and litho sheets,” says Joseph Speaker, business director of Menasha Packaging’s York facility. “From strategy development, packaging and display design and manufacturing, to fulfillment, distribution and transportation, our clientele require short-run high-quality products in a fast speed-to-market delivery that exactly match their logos and provide an eye-appealing look. Our unique ability to deliver the lowest total cost, speedy delivery, and innovation enables our customers to drastically reduce costs and obsolescence, greatly improve ROI, strategically deploy internal resources, and ultimately, create and manage fewer, but more impactful promotions, campaigns and retail merchandising programs. With our growth maintaining a steady upwards trajectory, we required a new high-performance press to meet our additional capacity needs.”

The York facility’s press has been configured with extra capabilities to serve customer needs, says Dave Kornbau, operations manager of the York facility. “Its UV capabilities are a huge draw. This will provide our customers with spot and gloss coatings as well as dull, plus instant drying will provide the speed-to-market that is required. We’ve also added unique decorating capabilities for designers and print buyers to take advantage of,” says Kornbau.

Menasha’s York facility serves the point-of-purchase folding carton and litho sheet markets from an expansive three-building 440,000-square-foot facility with more than 400 employees, 10 offset presses, six digital presses, and capabilities that run from 40˝to 73˝ large format conventional presses to 120˝ digital presses along with extensive die cutting, decorating, foiling, embossing, kitting, and component work. “The 57˝ size of the new KBA press perfectly fits our power stroke,” says Kornbau. “We’re already outfitted with foil, die cutting, and embossing equipment for that same size. Once the press arrives, we’ll be expanding and adding four new crews. Everyone at our facility is excited about this new installation.”