Tools & Production Inc.

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries including Bobst, Tool & Production, DMS, Brandtjen & Kluge, New Era Converting Machinery, Brausse, Eagle Systems, Masterwork USA, MGI Digital Graphic Technology and Telstar Engineering.

Turnaround times are critical in today’s package-printing world. Couple quick turnaround with the demand for shorter runs, and your press operators will be switching tools almost constantly. Diecutting is an integral part of the entire printing process and can impact the speed at which you can fulfill print orders. Just as diecutting impacts the speed of your print job, external forces, such as consolidation, globalization, new substrates and shorter runs, affect the ­diecutting market. “The label printing industry as a whole has been changing rapidly in recent years,” says Frank Hasselberg, executive vice president, Kocher + Beck USA. “These changes also have a huge

TEMPLE CITY, Calif.—Tools & Production—which offers custom solutions that utilize unwind, punch, slit, perf, folding, conveying, stacking technologies to convert a moving web—recently manufactured a sophisticated system for a 20˝ wide printed web that included automatic registration to the printed web, precision high speed die cutting, and the shingling of six separate lanes onto multiple conveyors and stackers. The final product was then transported through a boxing and finishing line with individual boxes then being placed into final shipping cartons. This line will convert 2-1/2 to 3 million items per working day and significantly increased this customer’s productivity. T&P’s expertise has provided converting solutions