70 million sheets in less than a year on KBA Rapida 106!

Barely a year after entering production, the KBA Rapida 106 at Packages Limited in Lahore, the second-largest city in Pakistan, has already clocked up 70 million impressions.

For Packages Limited, established as a supplier of premium packaging solutions since 1956, a period of renewed strong growth highlighted the urgent need to increase print capacity at the company. Last year’s investment decision fell in favour of a six-colour Rapida 106 with inline coater, extended delivery and additional automation features such as FAPC automatic plate changers and CleanTronic washing systems. The press was raised by 450 mm to facilitate packaging production with higher piles and is integrated with the prepress department via CIPLinkX.

The original target for Packages Limited was to print 90 jobs and a total of 6 million sheets per month on the new press. With typically 150 job changes, the expectations have been exceeded by far. Regular production at 18,000 sheets per hour is one factor which has contributed to the outstanding result. At the same time, the printers at the company praise the broad spectrum of substrates which can be processed on the Rapida 106.