02.06.20
Boutwell Owens, a US supplier of printed paperboard packaging, installed an upgraded HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press.
The press is helping the converter deliver high-quality customized packaging and significant cost-savings for its customers for SKU management and production.
Installed at Boutwell’s Fitchburg, MA site, the HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press runs three shifts, five days a week.
“Digital is a necessity in today’s workflow. We could not survive today without the HP Indigo 30000. It is an indispensable part of our arsenal enabling us to deliver quickly to market with less tooling expenses,” said Bill Hodges, VP sales and marketing at Boutwell. “It’s all about the interchangeability, with the HP Indigo 30000 delivering quality surpassing offset, and the ability to offer a wider array of services to our customers.”
The versatility package on the enhanced HP Indigo 30000 provides more flexible paper handling, and increased versatility with a synthetic kit for plastic cards, plastic packaging, plant labels and other applications printed on PVC, PET, PP and other synthetics.
Digital printing accounted for more than 5% of production at Boutwell, an HP Indigo 30000 worldwide launch customer – and is growing.
Key areas of production are automotive, consumer and personal care products, and medical. Some clients have as many as 1,800 different SKUs.
“Customers who buy high volumes analog have a lot of part numbers that are very difficult to service in the offset universe. It becomes more efficient from a supply chain perspective to use digital, while also benefitting from speed to market and promotional printing,” said Hodges.
Boutwell’s biggest digital print customer is Champion Laboratories Inc., an automotive filter manufacturer maintaining a high SKU volume, including 1,600 SKUs on its air filter product lines alone.
“We were able to help them reduce their overall inventory expenditure by over $750,000 a year and obsolescence costs by a half-million dollars in just one component of their product line,” said Hodges.
Boutwell provides customized packaging for value-added, personalized golf ball provider, Titleist, custom golf balls.
The press is helping the converter deliver high-quality customized packaging and significant cost-savings for its customers for SKU management and production.
Installed at Boutwell’s Fitchburg, MA site, the HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press runs three shifts, five days a week.
“Digital is a necessity in today’s workflow. We could not survive today without the HP Indigo 30000. It is an indispensable part of our arsenal enabling us to deliver quickly to market with less tooling expenses,” said Bill Hodges, VP sales and marketing at Boutwell. “It’s all about the interchangeability, with the HP Indigo 30000 delivering quality surpassing offset, and the ability to offer a wider array of services to our customers.”
The versatility package on the enhanced HP Indigo 30000 provides more flexible paper handling, and increased versatility with a synthetic kit for plastic cards, plastic packaging, plant labels and other applications printed on PVC, PET, PP and other synthetics.
Digital printing accounted for more than 5% of production at Boutwell, an HP Indigo 30000 worldwide launch customer – and is growing.
Key areas of production are automotive, consumer and personal care products, and medical. Some clients have as many as 1,800 different SKUs.
“Customers who buy high volumes analog have a lot of part numbers that are very difficult to service in the offset universe. It becomes more efficient from a supply chain perspective to use digital, while also benefitting from speed to market and promotional printing,” said Hodges.
Boutwell’s biggest digital print customer is Champion Laboratories Inc., an automotive filter manufacturer maintaining a high SKU volume, including 1,600 SKUs on its air filter product lines alone.
“We were able to help them reduce their overall inventory expenditure by over $750,000 a year and obsolescence costs by a half-million dollars in just one component of their product line,” said Hodges.
Boutwell provides customized packaging for value-added, personalized golf ball provider, Titleist, custom golf balls.