Komori carton press to help Chesapeake meet needs of customers

- Limerick site has recently installed new cut and crease press, CtP unit and advanced image verification system

 

- Reverse printing functionality to meet growing need of customers

 

Chesapeake Limerick, part of Chesapeake’s pharmaceutical and healthcare division, is taking delivery of Europe’s first Komori GLX 740RP carton printing press as part of a €4 million investment program.

 

The seven-colour press includes a reverse printing unit and double coating unit.

 

The installation follows that of a six colour GLX40 Komori at Chesapeake’s Leicester plant shortly after the GLX models were launched at Drupa 2012. 

 

In the last three years, Chesapeake has installed a range of presses including six-colour Komori Lithrone 40 models at its Nottingham, Leicester and Belfast operations, all of which, like Limerick, specialize in the production of cartons for the pharmaceutical and healthcare market.

 

During that period, in line with strong investment in equipment, upgrades and building improvements at many of its 43 manufacturing facilities in Europe, America and Asia, Limerick has also been a beneficiary.

 

Over the past three months, the site has benefited from the installation of a new cut and crease press, a CtP unit and an advanced image verification system. 

 

Bobby O’Connor, divisional sales and account director, said: ‘Further development at Limerick is very much on our agenda, as is investment across the whole of Ireland. This demonstrates our unrivalled commitment to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device markets in Ireland.’

 

Chesapeake Limerick’s operations director Morgan Fogarty added: ‘We’ve been very impressed with the GLX installed at Leicester, which has offered increased automation and environmental related improvements. 

 

‘Its dual-camera in-line quality inspection system, spot measurement and Komori’s new spectral density control has helped to optimise product consistency. These benefits have led us to select a similar specification for Limerick, this time enhanced with the reverse printing unit and double coater.

 

‘The reverse printing unit will enable us to provide our customers with the opportunity to print information such as user instructions on the inside of packaging – which is an increasing and welcome trend, as it reduces material requirements and ensures that vital instructions remain with the product.

 

‘Another continuously increasing design trend on OTC healthcare packaging to enhance shelf-appeal is the use of varnish coatings.

 

‘The double coater on the new press will allow us to combine matte and gloss varnishes, and metallic finishes. It will also assist us in delivering many other special effects such as our own 3D Glint product, holographics and micro-embossing.’

 

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