As North America’s first dedicated sheet feeding company,
Corrugated Synergies International, LLC (CSI) is accustomed to
setting new industry trends; the company did just that at the
recent Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (Nasdaq:EFII) Connect users’
conference when it became the first company to purchase the full
ecosystem of EFI™ technologies for corrugated packaging, featuring
EFI Corrugated Packaging Suite manufacturing execution system (MES)
software for business ERP and production management integrated with
an EFI Fiery® digital front end (DFE) and the breakthrough Nozomi
C18000 ultra-high-speed single-pass LED inkjet press.
“CSI has pioneered many things in our industry,” according to
CSI Vice President of Manufacturing and Print Jeffery Dumbach,
noting that the Nozomi installation means CSI can address the need
for analog-to-digital transformation in corrugated print supply
chains that often suffer from excess production, storage and
obsolescence costs. “With the existing processes, people carry an
excess of inventory. But using the Nozomi press, our customers will
purchase precisely what they need when they need it,” he said.
A complete inkjet print, Fiery DFE and Corrugated
Packaging Suite workflowThe Renton, Washington-based
company, which manufactures corrugated sheets for box
manufacturers, will be the first dedicated sheet feeder to install
the Nozomi press, an award-winning, ultra-high-speed production
system that redefines the role of digital print in the corrugated
packaging space with throughput speeds up to 6,600 2.6x3.3-foot
(800x1,000-cm) boards per hour. The 71-inch (1.8-meter) wide LED
inkjet device being installed early this summer will include the
complete EFI ecosystem of corrugated production options and
products, with six-color plus white ink installed on the press and
fully integrated top- and bottom-feeding units.
That ecosystem of advanced technologies coming to CSI includes
the fast, efficient job-processing and color management
capabilities of the EFI Fiery NZ-1000 high-performance DFE. The
Corrugated Packaging Suite MES workflow coming to CSI facilitates
plant-wide management and integration of digital production for a
full, end-to-end business and production framework to handle the
company’s digital, analog flexo, single-face litho-lam and litho
label operations.
“We are excited to have the first ‘all-in’ move to digital in
corrugated with both the new Press and the full production workflow
from EFI for corrugated packaging,” said Dumbach. “The market will
move and grow quickly with digital so there are benefits for us and
our customers being ahead of the curve.
“The Corrugated Packaging Suite is a real advantage,” he added,
“because it is fluent in everything we do as a company, so it can
change how we manage production as our product mix shifts from
analog to digital.”
Game-changing quality and efficiency for warehouse club
and retail packagingCSI’s new Press provides high-quality
output with resolutions up to 360x720 dots per inch with four-level
grayscale imaging. A 100% in-line inspection system on the Press is
tied to robust print optimization technologies, including inkjet
nozzle, alignment and uniformity correction. CSI executives,
according to Dumbach, were “blown away” by the high quality of
print the Press provided. Last year, those executives also visited
the first Nozomi installation in Spain, where Dumbach said he
observed long, uninterrupted production runs and seamless,
end-to-end production on multiple jobs without downtime for
cleaning printheads, stitching or other common changeover
issues.
Digital printing will add significant value for CSI customers,
including box manufacturers serving companies that sell their
products at big box and warehouse club retail stores. Digital
printing’s benefits in quick time-to-market for different designs
creates opportunities for regional, customized packaging strategies
that boost sell through.
“There are particular advantages with digital for selling new
products through warehouse clubs,” Dumbach noted. “Oftentimes, a
club might order two pallets of a product as an initial order to
see how it sells, and that requires a huge upfront investment with
analog printing.” Using the EFI Nozomi press, on the other hand,
makes it easier and faster to create and launch new,
superior-quality packaging for those initial club launches –
without the minimum run-length requirements, larger prep expenses,
make-ready waste and inventory costs required with analog
print.
Have Nozomi, will travel“We completed a
thorough analysis of operation and ink costs and saw that there is
a pretty big economic advantage to using the Nozomi press,” Dumbach
also noted. Typically, he said, the corrugated sheets CSI makes can
be shipped within a 250-mile radius to its box-manufacturing
customers before transportation costs become prohibitive. With the
added value that high-quality digital print brings to its
customers, CSI can affordably distribute its work even further to
reach a broader set of potential customers.
“CSI has set itself on the leading edge of corrugated packaging,
and the company is now launching a breakthrough production model
for sheet feeders,” said Frank Mallozzi, EFI’s senior vice
president of worldwide sales and marketing. “The Nozomi press and
the complete ecosystem of EFI corrugated packaging technologies CSI
is installing create a remarkable competitive advantage for CSI,
the box manufacturers it serves, and consumer product companies
that will benefit from high-end, quick-turnaround corrugated
packaging.”
For more information about advanced digital corrugated packaging
production with EFI technologies, visit www.efi.com or contact
(800) 875-7117.
About EFI EFI™ is a global technology company,
based in Silicon Valley, and is leading the worldwide
transformation from analog to digital imaging for industries and
market segments where imaging and color matter. We are passionate
about fueling customer success with products that increase
competitiveness and boost productivity. To do that, we develop
breakthrough technologies for commercial printing and publishing
and for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic
tiles, and personalized documents, with a wide range of printers,
inks, digital front ends, and a comprehensive business and
production workflow suite that transforms and streamlines the
entire production process. (www.efi.com)
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