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Smurfit Kappa transforms corrugated production

Dublin, Ireland-based Smurfit Kappa Group is upping its game with the installation of what’s described as an “ultra-high-speed” digital printing press for corrugated packaging.

New digital press offers high speeds and high quality on corrugated.
New digital press offers high speeds and high quality on corrugated.

Silicon Valley printing technology company EFI is the maker of the EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED ink-jet press. The new press will establish leaner and more-effective processes to deliver ready-to-sell high-quality print packaging that will provide customers maximum brand benefit in the retail store.

"This digital printing partnership with EFI reflects Smurfit Kappa's serious commitment to providing the best packaging solutions available," says Ignacio Sevillano, CEO Smurfit Kappa Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. "Our ability to achieve high-quality print production in larger volumes with the Nozomi press will mean our customers can establish better supply chain strategies and be more creative by producing multiple designs – all of which can help our customers sell more products and reduce their time to market, while employing a leaner, more sustainable packaging program."

The new press was scheduled to be installed in May at one of Smurfit Kappa’s plants in Iberia – a facility that currently manufactures a wide range of boxes and trays, including ready-to-sell packaging requiring higher-quality, full-color imaging. The Nozomi press, with its high-end grayscale imaging capabilities and fast running speeds up to 246 linear feet (75 linear meters) per minute, offers the critical capabilities Smurfit Kappa can use to give its customers short-run, medium-run, and complex versioned jobs that are too costly to produce using analog post-print flexo or litho lam processes. This Nozomi C18000 would be the fourth digital printer operating at Smurfit Kappa Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.

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