Finishing - Conventional

This week’s POW! episode takes a look at the 2021 Paperboard Packaging Council’s Rigid Box of the Year. The sophisticated box from Taylor Box Company impressed judges at the 78th Annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition for its luxurious design superbly manufactured. 

S-One Labels & Packaging has announced it will be conducting virtual demonstrations of the Cellcoat T-Series Thermal Laminator. The virtual demonstrations of the T-14 Thermal Laminator inside S-OneLP’s Wisconsin showroom can be scheduled on demand and will occur entirely remotely.

The BOBST NOVAFOIL 106 has been developed to offer efficient, versatile, and cost-effective multi-color foiling. Its capabilities also include embossing, debossing, hologram application, and diecutting.

To keep work flowing from pressroom to post-press, and out to the customer, Ultimate Paper Box, under the leadership of Janak Patel, has boosted its folding and gluing department with a new Koenig & Bauer AllPro 110 folder/gluer.

BOBST has revealed several new solutions to support its packaging industry vision, all built on the four cornerstones of Connectivity, Digitalization, Automation, and Sustainability, helping customers to deal with packaging production transformation.

An efficient production process is imperative to a successful packaging operation, and finishing is a key component that should not be overlooked.

This new equipment is being installed in C-P Flexible Packaging's Buffalo, N.Y., facility and will support growth in a variety of bag formats for food, health care, and industrial applications through traditional retail distribution as well as rapidly growing e-commerce channels.

Mauro Consalvi has joined Matik, Inc. and will be responsible for North American sales of OLBRICH coating/laminating products. Consalvi has more than 30 years of experience in the printing industry, ranging from product development and design to capital equipment sales and sales management.

Equipped with a series of automated setting functions, the BOBST MASTERFOLD 75/110 enables very short makeready times and supports non-stop production, able to produce up to 2.7 million perfectly executed boxes per day.

Advantage Corrugated & Packaging, a Hopkins, Minn.-based manufacturer and distributor of boxes, is continuing its expansion and growth with a third machine from Kolbus America in three years — an AutoBox AB 300.