STEINHAGEN, Germany—Allstein, a German manufacturer of customized central impression (CI) flexographic presses, has recently introduced a new CI press specifically for paperboard and folding carton applications. According to Kurt Flathmann, North American sales manager, “This is not simply the traditional film press with larger idler rolls that is currently available from suppliers. Rather, it is a work horse press designed to specifically handle the higher tensions and greater caliper variations typical in paperboard while providing the significant advantages that CI flexo offers.”
Each application, whether folding carton, liquid packaging or food service, such as plates and cups, has its specific requirements. With the application, the substrates as well as the inking system and the processing method can change. For an efficient operation, production speed, setup and changeover times need to be optimized and adopted to the changing requirements. Allstein’s paperboard equipment offers that ability to optimize each step in the process via:
- The industry’s shortest setup and changeover times
- Exceptional versatility in equipment configuration
- Significant waste reduction
- Greatest ease of operation
The requirements of folding carton production are as versatile and demanding as the products they contain. The range includes simple fast food packages to high quality folding cartons for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and confectionary.
The Allstein paperboard equipment offers the highest possible versatility with the ability to have a completely inline process for finished, diecut, stripped and stacked cartons at the end of the line in a single pass, or a single press with the speed and efficiency to serve multiple converting processes downstream to insure the optimum converting efficiency. Other system benefits include:
- Use of various ink systems
- Efficient front and reverse side printing in one pass
- Efficient inline production of the finished blank by means of a flat bed or rotary die cutter
- High speed, low waste operation of inline sheeting or rewinding enables you to optimize existing assets without additional investment
- Modular extension, according to the needs of our customers
- Long run jobs can also be easily handled with Allstein’s high speed capability
“We are very excited about the market reaction to the many innovations our equipment provides, and that the innovations will be affecting the packaging market in the very near future,” added Flathmann.