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When Arca-Box from Palazzolo in the Italian province of Brescia bought its five-color KBA Rapida 105 with coater and equipment for cardboard and film printing in 2000, it was the most advanced press of the day on the market. Back then, the Rapida 105 was already fitted with six interdeck dryers for UV printing and three UV lamps in the delivery extension.
The company recently invested in an unusual KBA press: a seven-color Rapida 106 with coater tower, two interdeck dryers and another coater in front of the three-fold delivery extension.
Arca-Box is a member of the group owned by the Gasparini family, and has been in the packaging business since 1948. The company designs and produces high quality presentation packaging made of plastic film and cardboard.
It weathered the crisis years in the industry due to the passion of the owners, brothers Aldo and Gaetano Gasparini, long-standing experience, extensive know-how and high degree of specialization. The third generation of the family is already involved in the business. Aldo Gasparini’s daughters Federica and Francesca work at Arca-Box in the technical-commercial and administration departments respectively. Their youngest brother Alessandro is just finishing his engineering studies and aims to return to the company once he has gained some professional experience abroad.
The entire value chain process in the production of high quality packaging at Arca-Box is realized with state-of-the-art machinery and systems: on cardboard and film (PVC, PET, lenticular, PP) and a combination of plastic and cardboard.
The owners have been toying with the idea of a new sheetfed offset press for years to complement the Rapid 105, which has been in operation for 16 years, and an even older Rapida 104. Under no time pressure, the selection process resulted in the decision to invest in an extra-long medium-format Rapida with 12 printing and finishing units.
The “newcomer” has already greatly enhanced productivity in its first few months of operation. It has also demonstrated a high degree of versatility with extensive in-line finishing options, exceeding by far the expectations of the Arco-Box management.
Besides traditional packaging production, the new Rapida is also used for printing on plastic, plus “automatic” packaging, containers, displays, tapes, clipstrips etc.
The company recently invested in an unusual KBA press: a seven-color Rapida 106 with coater tower, two interdeck dryers and another coater in front of the three-fold delivery extension.
Arca-Box is a member of the group owned by the Gasparini family, and has been in the packaging business since 1948. The company designs and produces high quality presentation packaging made of plastic film and cardboard.
It weathered the crisis years in the industry due to the passion of the owners, brothers Aldo and Gaetano Gasparini, long-standing experience, extensive know-how and high degree of specialization. The third generation of the family is already involved in the business. Aldo Gasparini’s daughters Federica and Francesca work at Arca-Box in the technical-commercial and administration departments respectively. Their youngest brother Alessandro is just finishing his engineering studies and aims to return to the company once he has gained some professional experience abroad.
The entire value chain process in the production of high quality packaging at Arca-Box is realized with state-of-the-art machinery and systems: on cardboard and film (PVC, PET, lenticular, PP) and a combination of plastic and cardboard.
The owners have been toying with the idea of a new sheetfed offset press for years to complement the Rapid 105, which has been in operation for 16 years, and an even older Rapida 104. Under no time pressure, the selection process resulted in the decision to invest in an extra-long medium-format Rapida with 12 printing and finishing units.
The “newcomer” has already greatly enhanced productivity in its first few months of operation. It has also demonstrated a high degree of versatility with extensive in-line finishing options, exceeding by far the expectations of the Arco-Box management.
Besides traditional packaging production, the new Rapida is also used for printing on plastic, plus “automatic” packaging, containers, displays, tapes, clipstrips etc.