To keep up with the high workload due to business growth, KEP Print Group Ltd has installed a Lamina Blackline 1620 FA 1600/800 to replace their eight-year old Lamina 1620 FA 800/500.
Faced with increasing sales and a laminating machine that was running at maximum capacity, Managing Director, Mark Plowman knew he needed to invest in a faster laminating machine. “We were running our old Lamina in 24-hour shifts to keep up with the demand,” Plowman explains. “The new machine runs nearly four times faster and has shorter make-ready times, so our previous 24-hour workload can be done in one shift.”
The new Lamina Blackline 1620 is a high-speed fully automatic sheet-to-sheet laminating and mounting machine and produces high-end corporate retail packaging and POS advertising display materials. Among the Blackline’s advantages compared to the old laminator includes more accurate registration, a speed of up to 5000 sheets per hr and a higher capacity feeder, allowing full pallet quantities to be loaded into the machine.
“With the higher capacity, we spend less time loading the machine,” states Plowman. “It also uses the latest computer technology which reduces our set up times for each job and leads to a higher quality end product for the consumer. We’re excited to pass on quicker turnaround times and the best products to our customers.”
L to R: Alister Gilkes, Todd Williamson, Tony Kilgallen, KEP Design and Development Manager, James Evans, Tobias Jonsson (Lamina) and
Christoffer Sedlund (Lamina).
