Australian packaging printer Anzpac Services has installed "the world's most highly specified and longest sheet-fed printing press". The KBA Rapida 142, size 6 (55in) has eight printing units, a perfecting unit, two coating units, three drying units, a triple extended delivery drying unit, and automated paper feed and delivery logistics. Total length is more than 40m.
Anzpac is a stand-alone business unit of BAT, and one of the top three Australian packaging printers. It produces work for BAT's four Australasian regions; Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guineau and the South Pacific, but is also printing for a growing number of non-group customers, including McDonalds, Colgate and Mars, with the outside work now accounting for 35 per cent of throughput. Some 20 per cent of its work is exported. It is one of only two gravure and litho packaging plants in Australia, and has 180 staff producing packaging 24 hours a day.
The new Rapida is joined by new die cutting and gluing equipment, and the company's first computer to plate system. It is the latest part of a A$30M investment programme that the company initiated two years ago. For the first time every aspect of production will take place in-house.
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