The Nozomi was launched at drupa last year
The news that Spanish packaging company, Rafael Hinojosa SA, will be the first beta site to install the Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet corrugated board press, was unveiled this week at EFI’s user conference, Connect, in Las Vegas.
Scheduled for installation this spring at the company’s Xàtiva site, the new press will be the latest digital printing advancement for Hinojosa, which installed a Barberan BIJB-1260 single pass digital line in 2013.
Hinojosa’s new press will include a new EFI Fiery digital front end, and the company will also use the EFI Corrugated Packaging Suite manufacturing execution system (MES) software workflow to streamline and automate job preparation tasks.
‘For nearly 70 years, Hinojosa has stayed on the forefront of packaging innovation, helping our customers develop better, more creative solutions, including advanced pre- and post-print digital inkjet technologies, to help customers create more value for their brands,’ said Hinojosa’s CEO. ‘EFI’s single-pass corrugated board technology continues that tradition by establishing a new level of high-quality, higher-volume inkjet productivity that will give our customers a distinct competitive edge with reduced waste, just in time supply chain efficiency and greater opportunities to grow sales with multi-SKU marketing.’
‘Hinojosa has already established itself as one of the industry’s most progressive adopters of digital print technologies for corrugated board packaging,’ said José Luis Ramon Moreno, vice president and general manager, EFI industrial printing. ‘It is an exciting development to have this market innovator partner with EFI in a progressive effort to accelerate digitalisation with the Nozomi C18000 single pass press.’
