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News Release from: Bobst SA | Subject: SP130-SE diecutter
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 June 2007
Diecutter Helps Increase Printer's
Turnover By 20%
Following improvements in quality and productivity, a second Bobst diecutting system has been installed by convenience food packaging group St Neots.
The diecutter is a size V, SP130-SE machine and is said to handle paper, solid board and corrugated up to a maximum sheet size of 920mm x 1,300mm With 500 tonnes of pressure available, the SP130-SE runs at a claimed maximum speed of 6,500 sheets per hour and has been fitted with Bobst's micrometric system and a quick-lock chase for accurate put-back of repeat jobs
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 10 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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UK company St Neots installed its first Bobst diecutter three years ago and saw the benefits in productivity and quality, so decided that an additional, identical Bobst machine was needed to take pressure off its other diecutting lines.
However, the company wanted to achieve that without increasing the headcount, or man hours.
St Neots' production director, Jamie Kearns, said: "The Bobst is like a diecutting Hoover, sucking up all the production that print can provide.
We've increased turnover by over 20 per cent during the past year and we needed that sort of extra capacity in diecutting to cope with that growth." Before the arrival of the new Bobst, St Neots was running three diecutters, including its existing Bobst SP130-SE, but the diecutting department was constantly overstretched.
Kearns explained: "With the second Bobst we've added a huge amount of extra capacity.
In fact we've been able to mothball one of our older diecutters, but still put our six-colour Komori Lithrone press on three shifts to make the most of the extra diecutting capacity.
And we've done all this without increasing man hours." He added that it was the positive experience of the company's first Bobst diecutter that gave it the confidence to install the second.
And Kearns commented: "We knew from the step change in performance we saw with the first one that this Bobst would do the same.
An alternative make might not have given us that extra production and we were sure that the SP130 was the right machine for us." Kearns also said that the new Bobst diecutter has made a significant difference to flexibility within the plant, making normal planning and responding to last minute customer changes much easier.
Commenting on the machine's sheet transfer, he explained: "It's reliable and consistent.
You know that the machine is in control of the sheet and not the other way around.
That gives the operators the encouragement to run at maximum speed, which we do on virtually every job.".
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