Beneco Packaging and subsidiary company SoOpak recently opened a second facility in Scarborough, Ontario. Once fully operational, the new facility will offer a complete design, manufacturing, and finishing production house that will eclipse another Beneco Packaging plant in Brampton, Ontario. The new facility will be home to a new Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-6+L with full automation and UV capabilities, a Heidelberg-MK Promatrix 106 CS diecutter and a Heidelberg-MK Diana Easy folder gluer.
Beneco Packaging and SoOpak operate as two different entities under one roof. While Beneco focuses on traditional packaging work for the food, beverage and personal care industry, SoOpak is an “online service” for clients who typically need short runs or specialty packaging. “There is a need in the market for short run, specialty packaging that needs to be served. We have worked very hard in the past several years to create this online environment for customers,” said Carol Jiang, Owner of Beneco Packaging. “Therefore, we needed a printing press and finishing workflow that could serve the short run environment — meaning fast makeready machines — but also ready to produce our typical packaging work from Beneco without sacrifice, which are longer runs with higher speeds.”
The Speedmaster CX 102-6+L is equipped to handle both short runs with quick turnaround and longer run work. Equipped with Prinect Press Center XL 2 operating system with the Wallscreen XL, jobs are pre-defined as they are output from prepress, which greatly cuts down on job transfer and loading. Once at press, the job data simultaneously initiates a “job change”, which may include blanket and roller washes, automatic plate loading with AutoPlate Pro and spectral color measurement with Prinect Axis Control. The press is complete with an IST UV system for “special effect” printing and “high gloss” coating.
Once the work is printed, then the finishing must take place, which is equally important for Beneco and SoOpak. Therefore, Beneco invested further with the Heidelberg-MK products. According to Jiang, “We are very pleased with the performance of our Promatrix CS. Flexible and easy to operate with automation meeting our needs.”
The new Heidelberg-MK Diana Easy is a great addition to the facility. “It is the right size, has great flexibility, and we can also add options as required in the future,” said Jiang. “We are not complete in our new building, but in a few short months, we have ramped up to complete production. It has been a very successful start-up for Beneco, SoOpak, and Heidelberg.”
Andrew Rong Su (left) and Jason Rong Su with their Speedmaster CX 102-6+L.
