ePac enters long-run orders market

ePac Flexible Packaging has expanded its offering to include long-run orders for brands of all sizes while continuing to serve its small and medium business core customer base.

ePac Flexible Packaging has expanded its offering to include long-run orders for brands of all sizes while continuing to serve its small and medium business core customer base

The point at which the run length of a job makes it more cost-effective to use conventional versus digital printing is known as the crossover point. Factors such as lead times, plates, freight, and inventory obsolescence costs determine when a job is best run digitally. Increasing this crossover point is where the company has been focused.

ePac has been steadily building its infrastructure to increase the run length of jobs that are cost-effectively produced on its fleet of over 50 HP Indigo digital presses located across the globe

The company has developed its job management system to move, or split, longer-run jobs to the locations best suited for a particular job while maintaining lead times of five to ten business days for rollstock and ten to 15 days for finished pouches and maintaining color consistency among all devices. 

As recently announced by HP Indigo, ePac ordered another 50 presses, which, together with the company’s existing 58 presses, bring the total fleet to over 100.

‘We have tremendous relationships with our suppliers, all of whom have helped us expand globally, add capacity, and be creative in assisting us in finding ways to increase our addressable market,’ commented Parag Patel, ePac’s president of global services.