Wausau Container adds Presstek to boost carton production

- Key to investment decision was precise registration, sheet size and 300 line screen printing configuration

 

- Wausau works to meet market need for short-run cartons

 

Wausau Container, a US-based folding carton converter specializing in the production of high quality folding cartons in small runs, has added a Presstek 75DI digital offset press to its production portfolio.

 

The company has also acquired a Young Shin die cutter dedicated to work coming off the Presstek 75DI. Wausau Container has added the Presstek 75DI to its four flexo lines that are all equipped with in-line die cutting and blanking for efficient short-run operations.

 

The Presstek 75DI is a highly-automated 31in digital offset press that is available in 4-10-color configurations. It has a full range of productivity enhancing options, including an in-line aqueous coater.

 

‘We were founded two decades ago and filled an unmet market need for smaller quantities of cartons that larger converters are not structured to address,’ said Chuck Plier, president of Wausau Container.

 

‘As lot sizes for many products continue to decline and quality requirements escalate, we needed to find a press that could cost-effectively augment our flexographic production for higher quality carton work, especially those requiring line colors.

 

‘The Presstek 75DI, with its larger sheet size, six colors and in-line aqueous coater, was the best fit for our needs.’

 

Plier added: ‘The 75DI’s 31 x 23.5in sheet size covers the needs of about 80 percent of the folding carton market. It also enabled us to bring in-house a significant volume of print that we had been outsourcing on behalf of our customers.’

 

Joe Demharter, vice president of sales at Presstek, said: ‘We are extremely pleased to be working with Wausau Container as they ramp up their digital offset production of folding cartons.

 

‘Key to their decision was the precise registration offered by the Presstek 75DI, its sheet size and its 300 line screen printing.

 

‘In addition to the outsourced work they are now able to bring in house, they have been successful in gaining additional work from existing customers. And with the 75DI on the production floor, their sales staff now has something new to talk about with both customers and prospects.’

 

Pictured, from left: Wausau Container press operators Dallas Ingersoll, Chris Habeck and Mike Plisch

 

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