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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Roland 900, Roland 700
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 July 2006
MAN Roland Carton Presses Top 1m
Impressions
One of the leading manufacturers of folding cartons in the United States has passed one billion impressions on a trio of MAN Roland presses.
One of the leading manufacturers of folding cartons in the United States has passed one billion impressions on a trio of MAN Roland presses The Chicago carton plant of Caraustar's Converted Products Group achieved the milestone on an offset press combination comprising a Roland 900 seven-colour press with coater and two Roland 700 seven-colour machines
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Brian Coffee, general manager of Caraustar's Chicago facility, said that all three presses have been producing around the clock at or near their top operating rates, six days a week, from the day they entered commercial production.
The plant's first Roland 700 went in to operation in 1992, whilst the second began producing in 1995.
Caraustar's Roland 900 was went live in 1997.
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That amounted to a cumulative total of 34 years of production and Coffee recounts those years as highly successful ones.
He commented: "Considering our high run speeds and the number of impressions we produce, these presses have proven to be very reliable.
We have replaced very few items during the years we've been running these MAN Roland presses and there have been no major repairs to speak of." Producing over one billion impressions amounts to what could be seen as the ultimate endurance run for sheetfed presses, he added.
Coffee continued: "We are entering unknown territory with these machines but MAN Roland has provided a great deal of support to get us whatever we needed to keep our presses very productive." The presses' main role is the production of cartons for food and consumer goods products, so quality and color consistency are key considerations.
The Roland 900 and the two Roland 700s deliver with ink trains engineered to maximise ink coverage and minimise dot gain, added MAN Roland.
The presses' ability to handle an array of stock types and thicknesses also comes in to play at Caraustar.
The machines typically print on coated recycled board, solid bleached sulfate (SBS) and solid unbleached sulfate (SUS) paperboard - material typically used to package frozen foods - which are are the mainstays of most production runs.
All three presses are configured with seven printing units each, which gives Caraustar the flexibility to meet a variety of client demands.
Coffee explained that the MAN Roland presses also provide in-line coating, and added: "Most of our customers run four colour process with two special colours." He also emphasised the industry-wide trend toward shorter runs and faster job turn-arounds, as clients have shifted to just in time production to reduce storage and inventory costs.
Coffee believes that his company's MAN Roland trio of presses is capable of keeping pace with the aggressive demands of the marketplace.
He said: "Make-ready times are good, whilst the time to get register and colour is excellent and production speeds are very high and consistent.".
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