German sheet plant, Liebensteiner Kartonagen are manufacturing corrugated boxes near the German border with the Czech Republic, from where they deliver in a 400km radius covering most of Germany, as well as the Czech and Austrian markets. The Liebensteiner production lines fill 55 lorries per day with around 1 million corrugated boxes, equating to 650,000 sqm of corrugated board. To help sustain this output, a new automated warehouse allows for the storage of another million boxes, while automation throughout the plant ensures the right pallets to be at the loading bay at the right time ready for loading.
With the advent of green issues and the need to use more recycled board, Liebensteiner have partnered with Prowell and use sheets of ‘Nextboard’ with the target of reducing their CO₂ emissions by 15% as well as working towards less land-fill.
A primary target is e-commerce. With its forecast growth rate in Germany this year set at 30%, Liebensteiner has purchased a BSC Autobox line. With newer green regulations demanding the right box for the job, resulting in less waste, the BCS Autobox line enables a quick turn-around to meet this developing need. This new machine allows the company the flexibility to quickly and easily produce shorter runs of anything from 50 to 2,000 boxes in large or small sizes. Box styles are various from RSC to FOL, wraps, one piece folders, pads or dividers. Effectively over 100 FEFCO styles can be run on the machine. In line die cutting stations are used to create hand holes. Most jobs are auto set without the need for any additional tools or forms, typically in less than 2 minutes. Previously run jobs are automatically stored on the machine and its intuitive operator screen enables jobs to be quickly called up.
