Revere Group, a family-owned business based in Seattle, has installed a Master M6 machine from Bobst. The installation will allow Revere Group to take further advantage of the growing demand for sustainable packaging solutions.
The company, which manufactures direct-contact food packaging, including film, bags and pouches and labels, already runs two Master M5 machines.
Recently the firm, which was founded all the way back in 1938, has expanded into in-house pouch production. President Mark Revere explained, ‘We recently began making pouches internally and we are seeing shorter run lengths, more versioning, faster turnaround, as well as compostable solutions being requested. Our solution allows our customers to purchase both short, medium and longer running jobs with brand consistency thanks to industry leading setup times and print speeds of up to 200m/min.’
As Revere Group scales up the flexible packaging side, its new Master M6 will offer improved efficiencies, allowing the company to meet customers’ demands for faster delivery, reduced waste, and packaging produced with new eco-materials.
Its ten-color Master M6 features turret unwinders and rewinders and runs with inline solventless lamination. Bosbst says that digital automation on the press ‘ensures productivity and process repeatability, making it very easy to run for less experienced operators as it requires only minimum and tool-free intervention.’
Mr Revere concluded, ‘We’ve been fortunate to have an incredible amount of demand for the print that we produce on the Master M5. So, when it became time for us to buy another press, we were happy to choose the M6, which takes the M5 technology and expands it even further with job change on the fly, reduced waste and incredibly quick setups.
‘As we ramp up production on the M6, we anticipate the main benefits to be reduced changeover times and the ability to have lesser skilled operators producing effectively, more quickly.’
