Ink World staff05.21.20
Oliver Inc., a folding carton manufacturer that serves the food, health and beauty, and pharma industry, added a Rapida 145 57-Inch Seven Color from Koenig & Bauer to its Hauppauge, NY facility.
The company said the press will provide 20% more production and capacity.
“Our goal is to provide creative, competitive, and reliable packaging and print solutions that drive sales and peace of mind for our customers,“ said Dan Rodenbush, president/CEO of Oliver Inc. “In the past few years, we have invested over $20 million in capital expenditures and we continue to make investments that allow us to offer our customers a greater range of services and capabilities. With so many products on retail shelves and new products constantly being introduced, we need to support our customers with state-of-the-art equipment.“
“Our food, health and beauty, and pharma customers demand speed to market and a breadth of high-end finishing capabilities,” said Nik Blake, VP/GM. “Strategically we felt that our new Rapida 145 57-inch seven-color large-format press would give us a superior advantage needed to win in today’s competitive market place. Koenig & Bauer’s leading-edge technology, as well as its superior color control system will allow us to offer our existing customers the highest level of quality while also giving us the capacity to support our new business development efforts.”
Oliver chose the new Rapida press for its cutting-edge quality control and production functions, coupled with its 18,000 sheets per hour running speed and enhanced makereadies.
Management estimates that it will help the company grow by about 25% in the next 2-3 years.
“This peak performing press will add at least 20% of additional capacity to our current lineup,” Blake said. “Our demanding customers have very high industry requirements and we’ll need all of the quality control functions found on the press. These features will help ensure that we continue to provide the highest level of quality and capabilities to our growing customer base.”
This Rapida large-format press will be Oliver’s ninth machine from Koenig & Bauer.
“When it comes to choosing new equipment, we make sure that we are purchasing the latest and greatest technologies available,” said Rodenbush. “Koenig & Bauer checked all the boxes with its innovative 57-inch seven-color large-format press. It will help us compete in today’s aggressive environment.
"To showcase the new press and its capabilities, we will be hosting an open house as well as making it a center point at our upcoming trade shows.”