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News Release from: KBA North America | Subject: Rapida 162A
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2006
KBA Presses Vital To Packaging Company's
Growth
Pacific Southwest Container (PSC) a US west coast packaging provider, will add another KBA sheetfed press to its equipment roster in the autumn.
Pacific Southwest Container (PSC) a US west coast packaging provider, will add another KBA sheetfed press to its equipment roster in the autumn The new press will bring to five the total installed at the company's facility in Modesto, California
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 10 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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It will be another 64" Rapida 162A six-colour sheetfed press.
Darin Jones, senior vice president of PSC, said: "We are the west coast's premier provider of packaging, producing a broad array of containers and point-of-purchase displays for the consumer, electrical, food, and wine markets that are reflective of the Californian economy." He added: "We've been growing consistently for the past five years, posting a 17 per cent growth rate last year with record sales of US$104 million and 19 per cent growth this year up to this point.
Our KBA presses are important to our growth because speed-to-market is the primary confidence that our customers entrust to us.
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In addition, we are being asked to produce more vibrant, more colorful, more intricate designs on our packages with complex coatings." He also explained that over the years, PSC had found that KBA presses were the best engineered in their class and they give the company the tools and automation it needed to achieve its success.
To date, the firm has four KBA Rapida sheetfed presses, including two 64" Rapida 162As, one with a UV interdeck, as well as a tower coater and anilox roll metering.
The other is a six-colour UV interdeck machine but with oversized cylinders.
In addition, there is a 50" Rapida 130A seven-colour press with tower coater and a 41" Rapida 105 nine-colour UV interdeck press, also with a tower coater.
The first printing unit is flexographic followed by a curing station.
The bulk of PSC's work is produced on the two KBA 64-inch sheetfed presses, according to Blair Bergman, PSC's team leader for the sheetfed press department.
That work includes packaging for the food, wine and beverage industries.
The KBA Rapida 105 41" sheetfed press is used primarily for high-end folding cartons, which may call for silver, metallic and other special effects put through the flexo unit, cured and printed on the offset units all in-line.
Two presses, the Rapida 105 and one 64-inch sheetfed press, are equipped with KBA's Logotronic management and the company's Densitronic S systems, as will the new KBA press being installed in the autumn.
Bergman commented: "The KBA systems are absolutely instrumental in allowing us to produce higher quality colour work and keep track of our jobs.
These systems are linked to our CTP system that provides presets and fountain key information, which also constantly update our processes, whilst maintaining our colour consistency.
A good portion of our work is reprints, in which the customer approves the job and when they run out of boxes, they ask for more." He continued: "We're able to quickly and efficiently produce reprints because all of the settings are maintained in our system and the press operators can easily bring the press back up to colour with the push of a button." RPSC has also introduced a Meta-chrome and Meta-pearl, part of the Meta-tech printing process.
It is claimed to be a new technology that produces foil-like effects using specially formulated inks, resulting in an overall metallic appearance.
PSC said that it can integrate meta-tech qualities in various concentrations with four-colour process or match colours to create a variety of effects.
Brian Wecht, PSC's pre-press team leader, said: "We're gradually gaining more and more customers who are using Meta-chrome and Meta-pearl.
Not every project requires this type of look, but we're finding that it is being used readily on video games and software packaging.
It's easy, cost effective, and more flexible than foil stamping and Meta-tech can simulate the metallic qualities of foils simply by laying ink on paper.
It is being used to create a whole new dimension for printed images for subjects that are metallic, like automobiles or jewellry, or for reproducing mono photography with a liquid silver effect." Another growth area for PSC has been UV printing.
Three of its KBA presses are equipped with UV dryers and for the last seven years, the use of UV at PSC has become a big market, according to Bergman.
UV coating gives packages the durability needed to sustain time on store shelves but it also provides the ability to print on different substrates and for higher-end packaging, all of which is a necessity at PSC.
Bergman explained: "Our KBA presses are running either 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week, of 24 hours for six days.
When we ordered the newest KBA press to be delivered this fall, we all wondered why but by the time the press gets here, it too will be filled to capacity." Founded in Modesto, California in 1973, Pacific Southwest Container has grown from a small family-owned business.
With 500,000 square feet of building space in Modesto and another 215,000 square feet at its satellite operation in Visalia, California, PSC's ability to provide a range of services in-house - from planning and design, to manufacturing and delivery - allows the firm to provide its customers with the most creative and cost-effective services to meet their packaging needs, said KBA North America.
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