Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

With the rapid increase in ecommerce stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, SupremeX, a Montreal-based manufacturer of business envelopes labels and packages, relied on its seven-color, 41” Koenig & Bauer Rapida 105 PRO to keep up with demand.

With the installation of its new 64", eight-color Koenig & Bauer Rapida 164 press, Huston Patterson has been able to increase its production of critical packaging that can be found up and down the aisles of any retailer such as a local grocery store, pharmacy, Walmart, and Amazon.

Seeking an answer to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, package printers in North America are increasingly investing in Heidelberg solutions for cost-effective production.

McLean Packaging has installed a Speedmaster XL 106-8+LYY-1+L with Push to Stop technology from Heidelberg at its Moorestown, N.J., folding carton manufacturing facility. The press also features UV and Prinect Inpress Control 2.

During the past six months, Allied has realized more than 15% growth due to investing in new technology, which includes a new Rapida 106 eight-color plus coater press. The company expects that packaging work will continue to grow and become a more substantial contribution to the company.

Installed in February 2020, E.B. Box’s new Speedmaster XL 106-6+L with Push to Stop technology and Prinect Production Manager from Heidelberg could not have come at a better time for the company, which has increased its capacity by 50-60% per shift – helping to accelerate both its growth and speed-to-market.

PaperWorks Industries, a leading full-service provider of 100% recycled paperboard and specialized folding cartons for packaging applications, has installed a fully-equipped, seven-color, 41" Komori Lithrone GX40 (GLX740) offset press with multiple coaters at its Greensboro, N.C., facility.

Heidelberg is utilizing an innovation initiative to step up its activities in the label segment and is further expanding its position in the growing labels market. In the growing labels sector, Heidelberg will be concentrating on end-to-end digitized solutions in sheetfed offset printing.

In today's episode of POW!, we're taking a look at the top offset printed folding carton in the 2020 Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards. The winning package was submitted by Diamond Packaging of Rochester, N.Y., and is a great example of how print and embellishment can create an eye-catching package.

With production on the rise at Zumbiel Packaging as a result of the pandemic, the company invested in a new seven-color, 57" Koenig & Bauer Rapida 145. The large format size was important to increase process efficiency in existing carton production by reducing makeready by 40%.