Menasha Packaging’s York, PA Facility Enhances Productivity with High-Performance KBA Rapida 145 As a thriving organization with (Left to right) Dave Kornbau, Operations Manager and Joseph Speaker, Business Director of Menasha Packaging’s York facility, eagerly await the delivery of the new KBA Rapida 145 57" eight-color press and full UV capabilities and logistics. already outfitted with foil, die cutting, and embossing equipment for that same size. Everyone at our facility is excited about this new installation.” EMPOWERING THE ENVELOPE AND PRINTED MAIL Menasha Packaging’s York facility serves the point-of-purchase folding carton and litho sheet markets from an expansive three-building 440,000-sqft facility with more than 400 employees, 10 offset presses, six digital presses, and capabilities that run from 40" to 73" large format conventional presses to 120" digital presses along with extensive die cutting, decorating, foiling, embossing, kitting, and component work. “The 57" size of the new KBA press perfectly fits our power stroke,” says Kornbau. “We’re Envelope Converting Inserting Inkjet Printing W rapping YOUR ENVELOPE AND PRINTED MAIL SOLUTIONS PARTNER Wrapping & Packaging Solutions W+D ENVELOPE INSERTERS Flexible and intelligent direct mail inserters with unique modular front of line 4-color inkjet printing that allows printing on the front and back seal ap of an unlled 6x9 envelope single pass. W+D ENVELOPE CONVERTING MACHINES Take control of your envelope supply chain quality, delivery and printed waste by converting envelopes in-house. W+D can provide you new and used W+D envelope converting machine solutions. W+D ENVELOPE INKJET PRINTING PRESSES The world’s fastest industrial 4-color envelope inkjet presses with multi-format feeder. W+D North America, Inc. 11300 West 80th St. Lenexa, KS 66214 USA Phone 913-227-3000 Email info@wdnorthamerica.com Website www.wdnorthamerica.com ©2015 W+D North America See us in booth 1253 at GE15 exclusive North Amrerican sales/service additional capacity needs, Menasha Packaging’s York, PA facility has enhanced its productivity with a unique new high-performance KBA (Booth 213) Rapida 145 57" eight-color press with full UV capabilities and logistics at the firm’s sprawling 220,000-sq.ft. facility. “Our expertise is the in-store merchandising industry in which we provide point-of-purchase (POP)/point-of-sale (POS), folding carton, and litho sheets,” says Joseph Speaker, Business Director of Menasha Packaging’s York, PA facility. “From strategy development, packaging, and display design and manufacturing, to fulfillment, distribution, and transportation, our clientele require short-run high-quality products in a fast speed-tomarket delivery that exactly match their logos and provide an eye-appealing look. Our unique ability to deliver the lowest total cost, speedy delivery, and innovation enables our customers to drastically reduce costs and obsolescence, greatly improve ROI, strategically deploy internal resources, and ultimately, create and manage fewer, but more impactful promotions, campaigns, and retail merchandising programs. With our growth maintaining a steady upwards trajectory, we required a new high-performance press to meet our additional capacity needs.” Time to invest After researching and examining the latest large format press models on the market offered by the largest three press manufacturers, the firm made the solid decision to invest in the KBA Rapida 145 press. “While we’ve operated presses from all three manufacturers, we chose KBA because it is the Number One selling large format press manufacturer and another Menasha Packaging facility in Neenah, WI has had a lot of success with its large format KBA press,” says Speaker. “We know that KBA makes a great reliable durable press. This will be our first press from KBA and our tenth press in our main 220,000-sqft facility.” The York facility’s new KBA Rapida 145 has been configured with extra units and all the “bells and whistles” to serve its customers, says Dave Kornbau, Operations Manager of Menasha Packaging’s York facility. “The new KBA Rapida 145 is our showcase press. We’ve been talking to our customers about it. Its UV capabilities are a huge draw for them. This capability provides our customers with spot and gloss coatings as well as dull plus its instant drying gives us and our customers the speed-to-market that is required. We’ve added unique decorating capabilities for designers and print buyers to take advantage of. Color control and quality are an immense necessity to our customers. This new press with its unique capabilities sets us apart from our competition and solidifies our reputation as the leader in print technology,” says Kornbau. Official Show Daily | PrintingNews.com GRAPH EXPO | September 16, 2015 | 23
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