Packaging
New Wave Converting improves print capabilities with new SCHIAVI EF4040 flexo press
Monday 28. September 2009 - With the addition of an 8-color SCHIAVI EF 4040 CI gearless sleeve press, American company New Wave Converting continues to execute a new growth strategy on the West Coast.
Established in 1979, New Wave is a 2nd generation, 30-year-old family-owned company, with two facilities in Fontana, CA (50 miles east of Los Angeles). New Wave prints up to 10 colors, laminates with solvent, waterbased, or solventless adhesives, and has in-house pouch-making capability for stand-up and zipper pouches.
New Wavess new EF 4040 will replace a durable 20-year-old 6-color geared flexo press, also a SCHIAVI, in a move targeted at expanding flexo production capability and versatility.
“Early this year we started the process of assessing the type of new flexo equipment that would best meet our growth targets. We needed a press that would enable us to respond to changing market needs even more quickly, but with the same high quality graphics that our customers are accustomed to” explains Jim Chestnut, New Waves Production Manager.
After careful consideration New Wave concluded that the SCHIAVI EF 4040 flexo press provided the technology best suited to fulfil these productivity needs, and in a design with extremely “operator-friendly” and ergonomic features and functions that will insure very fast job changeover.
New Waves EF 4040, 1’320 mm (52 inch) in web width, integrates advanced technical solutions that have been rigorously tested, resulting in extremely high print quality combined with maximum output, in a very economical format.
“In addition to the EF 4040s proven performance with a wide range of printing applications, we also felt confident about the reliability of Bobst SCHIAVI equipment and the quality of the support and services provided by BOBST in North America, based on our experience with our older SCHIAVI press”, says Chestnut.
New Wave specializes in exceptionally fast turnaround on new jobs (often within 10 days), particularly those with challenging graphics. New Wave typically develops highly customized solutions for each specific customer specification, on substrates including polyester, polypropylene, polyethylene, cellophane, paper, glassine, PVC, nylon, and shrink and metallized films.
The EF 4040 press will be installed in New Waves production site in Fontana, CA, and is scheduled for start-up beginning 2010.