The record was achieved during a job for a supermarket creating pizza boxes, using one of the five Bobst diecutters at Benson's Leicestershire plant, a Bobst SPrintera 106 PER. The machine averaged almost 12,000 sheets an hour to set the record.

The high speeds are achieved because of Power Register system and intelligent feed, which reduce stops in production by as much as 70%.

The operator of the Bobst SPrintera was able to use the machine's auto pallet transfer and non-stop systems to ensure that production was not interrupted by pallet changeovers.

Mark Kerridge, managing director of Benson Group, which includes Benson Box, said: "This is the most work a single diecutter has ever turned out in a shift at Bardon. However, these sorts of numbers are starting to become the norm there.

"In February, the plant ran a shift of 131,000 on the SPrintera, and in January there was one that was just a thousand sheets below that. It's now not unusual for this machine to turn out 100,000 plus sheets over a shift."