“If you walk around our plant, you’ll quickly see that, like so many plants where folding cartons are made, a lot of space is occupied by dies. We have dies everywhere, even though we’re always purging them. So when we first heard about carton finishing equipment that replaces physical dies with digital technology, we were immediately interested in
learning more.”
That’s how Vice President Sales & Marketing Bill Hodges of Boutwell Owens & Co. describes why this Fitchburg, MA-based firm was so intrigued when Highcon introduced its Euclid system, the world’s first fully digital creasing and cutting machine for converting folding cartons. Euclid greatly streamlines the tried-and-true but rather cumbersome process of creasing and cutting cartons that is used today. It also reduces the need for the highly skilled employees typically needed to make carton creasing and cutting dies, which involves the skilled hammering of steel rules into sheets of plywood. And finally, because it does away with conventional dies, it frees up storage space formerly occupied by those dies.
