Kyoshin Paper and Package was founded in Kobe, Japan in summer of 1948. Since then, their challenging spirit is their beating heart of the company as a successful packaging service provider and currently 290 people are working at the company.
The converter decided to choose Heidelberg Primefire 106 as their next digital press to expand their web-to-pack business on top of the traditional packaging business by signing a contract of the first Primefire 106 in Japan in April 2019. Heidelberg will install the digital printing system in Kyoshin Paper and Package´s brand-new Kanto plant in summer this year.
Kazuhiro Kajikawa, Executive Managing Director Hacoplay division, Kyoshin Paper and Package is proud to produce with the first Heidelberg Primefire 106 in Japan.
Hacoplay
In 2013 the company expanded their packaging business launching web-to-pack service called ‘Hacoplay’, focusing on the demand for small size and small quantity jobs, producing them with digital presses. They receive an order, even for one box in three days as their shortest delivery time. Currently the maximum size they can print on their digital press is B2, but in order to further expand their web-to-pack business, they were looking for a B1 digital press that could meet their demanding customer needs.
The first time they saw Heidelberg’s Primefire 106 was at drupa 2016 and they were impressed enough to ask Heidelberg to do run print trials with their challenging images. According to Kazuhiro Kajikawa, Executive Managing Director of Hacoplay division, “The result of the print test was excellent. The print quality such as green and orange were outstanding and we felt that the quality of print by Primefire 106 was the most beautiful we have seen. The consistency of quality between first and 500th sheets was also stable, which surprised our offset press operator who was with me for the test. Other interesting features of Primefire 106 for us is being able to cover 95% of Pantone colours, because as packaging printers, we have to use a lot of special colours. By enlarging the size from A3 to B2, we were able to expand our business and we are expecting more by going for B1 size with Primefire 106.”
The Primefire 106 is the first available industrial digital printing press for packaging in B1 format. “Japan is a very important market for us, as it is among the top countries for folding carton production and it has probably the highest standards of image quality in the world,” explains Montserrat Peidró-Insa, Head of Digital Print Business at Heidelberg. “The success of Primefire customers is what drives our entire team. We are proud to have such a renowned company like Kyoshin Paper and Package selecting Primefire 106 to accelerate their company growth. With this new installation, Primefire is expanding its global presence even further and consolidating itself as a business growth enabler in packaging.”
