Integrated Packaging buys LS640 after 3m move

Integrated Packaging has bought a Komori Lithrone LS640 after completing a 3m move to a 12,000m2 refurbished plant.

The food packaging company estimates that the move to the Team Valley Trading Estate, from four previous sites, including a 2,700m2 warehouse and three factories, will save 50,000 per year in transport costs alone.

 

Hall reported that the LS640, which features a coater and averages 11,000 sheets per hour, replaces a previous Komori press which produced an average 7,000 sheets per hour.

 

The company has also moved to a continental shift pattern on the new press, which sits alongside a three-year-old L640.

 

Hall reported that the extra capacity would be filled by new work from its existing supermarket clients, which include Tesco, Morrisons, Iceland and Sainsbury's.

 

He said: "There are always new lines and ranges, and we're fortunate that we're always considered when new lines come out. We don't get them all, but we get a lot of them."

 

He added that the company was planning to install a cutting and creasing press by year-end.

 

Print Design and Graphics, whose Newcastle-based factory was destroyed by fire in May, has moved part of its production to an Integrated former site until its new factory opens in the autumn.

 

Story by Josh Brooks