McLean Packaging Corporation has partnered with KBA North America for the first time to leverage the unique technology found on its new specially-configured KBA Rapida 106 41-inch hybrid eight-color press. This new investment will increase McLean’s product options and enhance its efficiency for premium packaging and display needs. The firm will install the new press in February 2015 at its 100,000 square foot, state-of-the-art folding carton manufacturing site in Moorestown, NJ.

The new hybrid KBA Rapida is configured with seven litho units, a coater, two drying stubs, an eighth litho unit, and second coater. The press can run both conventional and UV ink, providing a level of comfort for certain customers, and allowing McLean to be more cost effective as it enters into new markets. McLean’s management put special emphasis on sheet inspection and inline color density measurement by adding the KBA QualiTronic ColorControl system to ensure that the quality of every sheet is monitored. 
With this system in place, the press operators can scan in the approved drawdown, set tolerances, and the press will automatically adjust color as it runs. Other features include the GATF award-winning KBA Sensoric Infeed, an electronically controlled feeding that allows for color consistency and less makeready and waste; a touch-screen console allowing operators to view all sheets and reports during and after production; and fully-automated plate loading and plate clamping.

The new press also offers increased production and capacity by having two offset presses on the Moorestown pressroom floor.
 
Photo: Proudly displaying the features of the new KBA Rapida 106 in McLean Packaging’s pressroom at the Moorestown facility in New Jersey. (L-R): McLean Packaging’s Jeffrey Besnick, vice president and general manager; Joseph Fenkel, chairman and CEO; Edward Heffernan, KBA sales representative ; and Rob Watts, pressroom manager