Diana is revelation for Proteus

US printing, laminating and packaging system specialist Proteus Packaging said it has exceeded its expectations after installing a Diana X 115 folder gluer and a Diana Packer, both from Heidelberg, earlier this year.
 
Proteus Packaging said it aimed to make the most of its new machinery to provide fast, efficient production of short- and long-run folding cartons for the pharmaceutical, food and other markets. Now, with several months’ worth of production under its belt, the company claims to have exceeded its expectations in every regard.
 
‘What made sense for us, given the speed of the Diana X 115, was to put a packer on it to reduce the need for manual labor, and we¹re very happy that we did,’ said Proteus Packaging’s executive vice president and chief operating officer Tim Wayman. ‘The performance of both machines has been a revelation. The full-rated speed of the Diana Packer is two to four times what we experienced with hand packing. We’re now able to handle a greater number of high volume jobs faster and with greater efficiency than ever before. In addition, our output is up and our per-piece costs are down.’
 
Heidelberg said its folding carton gluing machines offer converters like Proteus an opportunity to produce a broad spectrum of premium folding cartons in a highly economic way, with superior processing quality, short make-ready times and outstanding ease of use in processing up to 200,000 cartons per hour, depending on the size of the blank.
 
Proteus has placed an emphasis on becoming proficient with run speed maximization. Once that is accomplished, Wayman said, the company will focus on further minimizing set-up times on both Diana machines. Quality control gets a boost from an efficient ejection system that electronically identifies and quickly removes faulty cartons from the manufacturing process, even at high speeds.

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