Packaging provider DS Smith has made a €10 million (£8.35 million) investment in a Bahmuller and Goepfert Maschinen (BGM) combination machine, as well as upgrades to its production lines at its packaging facility in Kunheim, France.
The new BGM machinery is anticipated to boost production speeds and enable DS Smith to respond to customer requests within even shorter timescales. This will benefit customers who need to create large-format triple-flute packaging solutions for heavy and bulky products in categories such as household appliances, chemical transportation, and building materials for the construction industry.
Thibault Laumonier, president of DS Smith Packaging, France, commented, ‘The inauguration of this BGM unit into our packaging facility in Kunheim represents an investment of €10 million and bolsters our ability to provide leading, fibre-based packaging solutions.’
The BGM machine is 65m in length and 11m wide and covers a total area of 515sqm. The machine has a capacity to flexo print, die-cut, fold, and glue large-format sheets of corrugated board in a single pass. Other technical features include an ability to manage formats up to 2000 and 5500mm, production sheets of up to 7000 per hour, two-colour printing, and flexible assembly techniques such as gluing and stapling, and with capacity for a combination of the two.
The Kunheim packaging facility has also benefited from a new automated flow management system incorporating a transfer shuttle and a double in-line centre (to centre and deposit stacks of cardboard sheets on a pallet). This additional new equipment will enable the DS Smith design and implementation teams to create packaging for customers from different industrial sectors.
