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News Release
client: AVT
contact: Christopher Dale
Turchette Agency
(973) 227-8080 ext. 16 cdale@turchette.com
Hod-Hasharon, Israel - Elopak, one of the world's largest manufacturers of folding carton packaging for liquid food products, has partnered with AVT - the world leader in print inspection, print process control, and quality assurance - to add AVT's SpectraLab on- press module to its quality control process in Terneuzen, The Netherlands, following previous installations at Elopak plants in Germany and Denmark. An add-on to AVT's
100% inspection systems, SpectraLab assures inline color measurement for color consistency and repeatability.
SpectraLab measures absolute L*a*b* (lab color space), density, and dot gain measurement. The system ensures consistent color printing all along the print run according to a brand owner's original colors. The on-press module supports the highest production speeds and measures color on a wide variety of substrates, including paper, carton products such as paperboard, and flexible materials.
For Elopak, the combination of SpectraLab's accuracy, speed and efficiencies made it a particularly attractive quality control option. The company manufactures an enormous number of cartons - over 13 billion per year - for a diverse portfolio of brand owners around the world. This being the case, Elopak's day-to-day operations entail frequent job changes and, often, design changes within individual jobs. Make-ready procedures need to be fast and accurate, and colors must precisely match those defined by brand owner graphics. Not only must colors be tightly consistent within print runs, but also repeatable between jobs and repeat runs.
And across all of these requirements is a need for speed: Elopak's lofty product quotas demand its presses run at high production speeds while staying true to the color schemes and overall quality standards of its diverse customer set.
Meeting this need for tight quality control at high speeds, AVT's SpectraLab ensures print runs 'by the numbers,' meaning it continuously monitors ink densities to verify that presses are printing within prescribed tolerances. Along with the module's other benefits, this color make ready support feature saves time and potentially costly press stops. The system also includes enhanced color reporting capabilities, and immediately alerts operators when colors shift out of tolerance. SpectraLab supports any common file standards and communicates easily with third-party reporting systems and databases.
At Elopak, implementation of AVT's SpectraLab solution included a period of evaluation as
well as specific adaptations made for Elopak's particular needs and workflow protocol.
Maurice Wierckx, Process Improvement Engineer for Elopak said: 'The changes that AVT made in getting SpectraLab to fit into our daily production processes have been very well received, and its close collaboration throughout the implementation and evaluation process displayed a true customer partnership. The semi-automated colorbar enables
the operator to set up the system in a very short time without any loss on job make- ready. By adding SpectraLab's database into our Business Intelligence Dashboards, which are used in our daily production meetings, we are able to monitor and detect any changes that may occur in our printing colors and solve them before unacceptable deviations are printed.'
Continued Wierckx: 'SpectraLab contributes in continuously improving print quality, and helps us better understand our processes. Overall, the system has proven itself worthy of enrollment on our presses in various other manufacturing locations.'
Guy Yogev, Marketing Director for the packaging market at AVT, said: 'We are proud to support a company as highly regarded as Elopak in meeting its needs for inline color measurement, consistency and repeatability. We continue to serve forward-thinking companies with exceedingly strict standards for quality assurance and overall process control, while maintaining high production speeds.'
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Elopak is an international supplier of paper-based packaging solutions for liquid food products. Based in Norway and wholly owned by the Ferd Group (one of Norway's largest privately owned industrial groups) Elopak is dedicated to breakthroughs at every level of packaging - including processing standards, food science, logistics analysis and
packaging concepts - through its unique systems-based approach.
Over more than half a century of continued growth, Elopak now employs more than
2,800 personnel in 13 manufacturing plants, which combine to produce over 13 billion cartons distributed to more than 80 markets worldwide. For more information, visit www.elopak.com.
AVT is the g lobal leader in print process control, quality assurance, and press control for the packaging, labels,and commerciai print industries. Backed by state-of-the-art technology and field-proven solutions, more than 7,000 AVT systems are installed at customer sites worldwide.
AVT is headquartered in Hod-Hasharon, Israel with sales, marketing, and support offices in the United States, Europe and China. For more information,visitwww.avt-inc.com.
Maurice Wierckx,E lopak
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