Japanese packaging supplier Rengo has successfully commissioned the first HP PageWide T1190 press installed in Asia.
Founded in 1909, Rengo employs almost 17,000 people at 100 different companies and 170 production facilities all over the world. Rengo produces a diversity of different packaging for its customers. The current portfolio includes not only high-quality corrugated packaging, but also flexible packaging for the food sector and others.
The HP PageWide T1190 is the product of collaboration between HP and Koenig & Bauer. It has a web width of 2.8 metres and a production speed of 305m/min. It uses water-based inks, which have been developed specifically for liner pre-printing in connection with corrugated packaging and comply with global legal requirements. Furthermore, a broad spectrum of health-related and environmental aspects over the full lifecycle of a printed product – from production through to disposal – are taken into account.
As well as being the first installed in Asia, the HP PageWide T1190 at Rengo is the first time that the widest digital printing press in the world had been supplied in a six-colour version. The press was further supplied with a Pastomat reelstand, Patras A reel handling, pre-coating unit and rewinder with automatic removal.
Junjiro Watanabe, general manager for technical development at Rengo, said, ‘We are very satisfied with our press. The cooperation with HP and Koenig & Bauer was absolutely flawless. And since the commissioning, the press has been fulfilling all our prior expectations in terms of performance.’
