Ahmedabad-based Art O Print to install Asia’s first Bobst Masterfold

The Accucheck and Speedwave devices of Masterfold have convinced Jaimin Patel, director, Art O Print to invest in the machine. “In pharmaceutical packaging, stringent quality control is important especially for the export jobs. With Masterfold, we enhance our capacity and can produce quality jobs at higher speeds.”

He further added, “As opposed to manually inspected 30,000 boxes in one hour, the Masterfold’s Accucheck enables us to inspect one lakh boxes per hour.”

According to Sachin Patil of Bobst India, the Speedwave attachment of Masterfold offers folding and gluing of lock bottom type of cartons at much higher speeds than conventional folder gluers.

“We already have Bobst’s Fuego which throughputs 25,000 to 30,000 cartons per hour. The Speedwave device will help us improve this over 60,000 cartons per hour,” added Patel.

The Masterfold, which offers operating speed of 550 m/min is provided with Accubraille feature for inline Braille embossing. The machine is expected to be operational at the Art O Print’s Changodhar plant in Ahmedabad by May 2013.