Japanese package printing company Kabushiki Kaisha Kyoshin Paper & Package has put the country’s first Heidelberg Primefire 106 into operation.
The printer’s investment in the B1 industrial inkjet digital printing system had initially been made to expand its web-to-pack business, although further benefits are now identified.
Kyoshin Paper & Package launched its web-to-pack business in Japan in 2013 under the name Hacoplay, through which the company offers original packaging with extremely short delivery times online. Kyoshin Paper & Package decided in favor of a Primefire 106 after customer visits by other Primefire 106 users and several machine tests. The decisive factor was the industrial digital printing technology’s colour stability and register accuracy.
Kazuhiro Kajikawa, managing director of the Hacoplay division, said, ‘There are three business areas that we want to expand with the Primefire 106. First, our existing Hacoplay business, where we can now print all Hacoplay jobs on a digital press. Then with Primefire we want to enter the promising business with paper bags printed in small series. In addition, we want to further expand our B2B business with POP applications.’
With the Heidelberg Primefire 106 officially going into operation at a ceremony in early November, the B1 format industrial inkjet digital printing system has been launched in Japan.
Montserrat Peidro-Insa, head of the digital business unit at Heidelberg, said, ‘Industrial digital printing, as offered by our Primefire 106, is boosting business with web-to-pack applications. With the Primefire 106, we are helping our packaging printing customers to further develop their digital business models and thus tap new market potential.’
Kyoshin is one of a number of converters across the packaging industry to make landmark investments and installations this year; read more here
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