The DA 260 Casemaker and NM 100 grooving machine will be installed at digital printing specialists Slough facility in the second week of March. The deal signals the first UK installation of the NM 100 router.
 
The firm, a multiple PrintWeek Award winner, specialises in creative print and packaging products with tight deadlines.

Screaming Colour managing director Iain Moring said: “We’ll also use it for case binding books and any paper-over-board capabilities. A lot of what the machines will do for us, we’ve been doing by more manual methods previously, so the Kolbuses will give us increased volume capability, speed, quality and efficiency.”
   
After considering other options, Screaming Colour chose the 40 cycles/min DA 260 Casemaker as Moring said it was specifically what it was looking for. Kolbus also upped the specification of the machine to give it the added capacity to be able to produce cases with up to seven board components, something specified by Screaming Colour to enable it to produce high-end presentation boxes.

“The machines were part of a significant ongoing investment plan in both print and finishing that we’ve had for the past five years. We continue to grow and our production volumes follow suit. It’s not going to be our last investment this year, that’s for sure,” said Moring.

The NM 100 features scoring blades that can be set between 90 and 130 degrees and produce produce up to 65 components/minute and will be used by the firm to route grooves. Moring said that using one piece of board instead of up to seven individual pieces will give boxes “crisp corners and a solid precision finish”.