By Melissa Donovan
Part 2 of 3
Single-pass digital printers are used by corrugated converters and printers around the world. The next two articles in this series take a look at two of those businesses.
Customization Goals
The Royal Group (TRG) is one of the largest independent corrugated box and display manufacturers in the U.S., with more than 30 locations nationwide. Its services range from industrial packaging and brown box shipping containers to high-end graphic packaging, ecommerce, in-store displays, and shelf-ready packaging. Customers are in the retail, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, health and beauty, agriculture, tech and home goods markets.
To meet client demand, it invested in a Delta SPC 130 Automatic single-pass press from Koenig & Bauer Durst. Its goal with the press was to provide mass customization and high-volume, fully automated digital production to its customers.
Installed at TRG’s Mid-Atlantic Packaging site near Philadelphia, PA, the six-color press gives customers the flexibility to print unique versions of high-quality graphics for brands and brand extensions, allowing for mass customization at a large scale.
The Delta SPC 130 Automatic, with its sustainable, food-grade certified water-based ink technology, provides specific solutions for the food and retail packaging and display industry.The single-pass press reduces lead times and provides excellent print quality, equivalent to flexographic and offset production.
Moving from conventional to digital production helps TRG to meet customer needs as the demand for both corrugated packaging and speed to market grow. The Delta SPC 130 Automatic’s expanded color range, adding orange and purple to CMYK, allows TRG to achieve more than 90 percent of the over 3,000 Pantone colors, including spot coloration for specific brands.
“As both a producer and a converter of corrugated packaging, TRG has made significant investments to acquire the best machinery available in the industry. The investment in the Delta SPC 130 for our Mid-Atlantic site underpins our commitment to process improvement. It enables us to provide highly automated, world-class printing capabilities at speed while remaining as flexible as possible for our clients as we continue to grow our business. Digital packaging is the future—and we aim to satisfy our customers and meet their needs with innovative solutions,” says Bob McIlvaine, CEO, TRG.
Regal Work
TRG uses the Durst Delta SPC 130 Automatic to grow its business and meet its clients’ needs for flexibility. Two of the main reasons many choose to adopt single-pass digital printing into their corrugated business.
The final article in this series looks at another corrugated display printer working with digital and provides insight from one of its clients as well.
Read part one, Quality and Speed
Jun2023, Industrial Print Magazine