Manufacturing Industry
Servo-driven press keeps converter cool; Smyth Cos.' new servo-driven ultraviolet flexo press keeps tension under control for a range of substrates.(package manufacturing)
Packaging Digest, May, 2007 by Spaulding, Mark
The market today is really pushing us to become a, very low-cost producer, says William Weernink, vp of operations for Smyth Cos., Inc. (www.smythco.com), recounting the converter's history of adopting ISO certification, a Six Sigma program and numerous waste-reduction efforts. "We really focused on the [printing] press, and to get to the next level, we needed to become servo-driven," he adds.
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The Minneapolis-based label maker did just that with the first U.S. installation last fall at its headquarters facility of a Varyflex ultraviolet flexo rotary-screen press from ...
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