Markets Served
Folding Cartons
Liquid Packaging
Pre-print
Paper Cups & Plates
Paperboard Converters
We Can Help You Print, Coat, Cut & Crease, Stack, & Palletize
SUPPLIERS REPRESENTED
Tresu is a leading in-line flexographic press system supplier from Denmark. Providing over 65 presses to the world’s largest consumer of paperboard and the leading liquid packaging converter Tresu has now “ commercialized ” their customized design and made it available to folding carton and other paperboard printers looking for the industry’s fastest make-ready (less than 10 minutes) and highest throughput speeds (up to 2600 fpm) while matching sheet-fed offset print quality. Available in web widths of 26’,36”,44”,55” and 67” Tresu offers unique drying, coating and laminating capability.
ROTODECOR is a leading German based manufacturer of gravure printing presses, lacquering and impregnating machines for the décor market and die cutters (rotary and platen) and delivery/stacker systems for the folding carton industry with facilities in Germany and China and service offices in Atlanta. Recognizing that the delivery and stacker end of the press determines the resulting productivity (net speed, quality of stacks) Rotodecor offers its competence for both platen and rotary cutting lines. With nearly 75 (and its legacy company Kochsiek) rotary cutting lines installed worldwide Rotodecor is the leading wide web solution supplier for handling difficult carton sizes and shapes at speeds up to 1400 fpm plus.
A&F is a German based material handling solutions firm specializing in customized solutions to “automate” the finishing end of folding carton production. Utilizing robotics or mechanical designs to help move, stack, de-stack, feed, pack and palletize either carton stacks of filled corrugated cases A&F has supplied systems (large scale and small ) to the leading folding carton converters in North America and Europe
Wandres is a German designed web cleaning system for efficient surface cleaning of paperboard, paper and film/foil, incorporating linear brushes wiping crosswise across web surfaces. Features include double sided cleaning of dusty paperboard materials at high web speed, cleaning before multi-color printing to avoid printing waste and increased productivity to reduce downtime associated with substrate debris buildup. Available for both web printing presses and roll-fed sheeters in sheet-fed offset print operations.
QUADTECH is a Wisconsin based printing press controls supplier that offers a complete range of systems that assist in optimizing print quality and waste reduction. Register controls for both print and print to cut and 100% visual inspection systems from QuadTech are installed on nearly every brand of web offset, web gravure and web flexo presses installed in both the folding carton and flexible packaging industries.
ABOUT US
PASSING $225 MILLION IN SALES, PACSYS CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION
After leaving senior management positions at manroland in 1996 Mike McGuinness and Klaus Dietel stuck their necks out to start PacSys, Packaging Systems Solutions (Mystic, CT) filling a need they had identified to offer complete system solutions (splice, print, cut, stack, automate, delivery/handling, measure quality) for the packaging print production industry.
Focusing on cost to produce (CTP) economics PacSys, over the next 20 years, became a significant supplier to major folding carton producers and along the way, introduced several new technologies, products and suppliers, many from Europe, to the North American packing industry.
A majority of their $225 Million sales since 1996 have been to paperboard packaging printers/converters operating wide and narrow web flexo offset press presses, PacSys also has introduced many new material handling, vision inspection, color measurement and web cleaning technologies for web and sheetfed offset carton, flexible packaging and shrink sleeve label converters.
Mike McGuinness (right) and recently retired PacSys partner Klaus Dietel celebrate Pacsys’ 20 years of serving the packaging industry
NEWS & MEDIA
Printing Process
Inline + Offline Systems
Oystar A+F
Transcontinental-Interglobe orders A+F format-flexible book palletizer, high-efficiency book cartoner
PacSys, Inc., representing A+F Automation of IWKA Packaging in North America, announced today that Transcontinental - Interglobe, Beauceville, Quebec, - one of the largest book plants in North America - has ordered the new A+F book cartoner and format-flexible book palletizer system to increase material handling throughput and improve worker safety.
Meadwestvaco
Material Handling Automation Plays Important Role In Comprehensive MeadWestvaco Plant Safety Program
MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems LLC has a comprehensive and successful safety program – part of their Operational Excellence Initiative – that contains a number of innovative approaches ....
Axium inc.
PacSys, Inc., Mystic, Connecticut-based specialists in material handling and automation systems, recently conducted a seminar and demonstration featuring the new Axium DP500 Robotic De-Stacker in Montreal for members of the folding carton industry. The attendees represented 10 companies operating a total of 58 folding carton plants.
MeadWestvaco
A+F Automation’s New Automated Palletizing System Delivers Enhanced Ergonomics, Productivity and Flexibility for MeadWestvaco’s Ajax Facility
A new high-capacity A+F Automation automated palletizing system has enhanced ergonomics and provided improved productivity for MeadWestvaco Packaging Systems LP’s Ajax, Ontario, beverage carton facility. The system is described as “a totally new concept in folding carton material handling automation” by Mike McGuinness of PacSys, Inc., who represents A+F Automation of Germany which supplied the system.
Riverwood International
Riverwood International Doubles Plant Throughput
Productivity surges with A+F Automation robotic palletizer
An A+F Automation robotic palletizer system has increased throughput and significantly raised the bar on productivity at Riverwood International Corporation's Cincinnati, Ohio, folding carton converting plant.
Focus Plant
Reprinted from Folding Carton Indusrtry magazine
(W .P. Jaspert)
Field Container Group's "focus plant"
Just over three years ago, in the autumn of 1998, Field Container Group entered into a five-year contract with the international food giant Kellogg to supply cartons to the Mexican plant in Queretaro. Field Container's "focus plant" was to be located immediately adjacent to the food factory so that printed folding cartons could be called up on demand.