Orora will install two ultra-high speed EFI Nozomi C18000 single-pass LED inkjet corrugated packaging presses in its Melbourne and Los Angeles facilities by May.
Orora CEO and MD Nigel Garrard said the printers are “genuine game changers” for Orora's corrugated packaging customers delivering magazine quality imagery directly onto corrugated board at ultra-high-speed.
“We are the first company to purchase and install the Nozomi printer in Australia and one of the first to use this print technology in North America," Garrard said.
"Our investment in these state-of-the-art printers demonstrates Orora’s commitment to keeping our business and customers at the forefront of the market."
“Orora is an excellent example of an innovative, large, multinational business that takes a savvy, proactive approach to enhanced customer service and best-in-class production for the corrugated packaging space,” Frank Mallozzi, senior vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, EFI, said.
“We are excited to partner with Orora to help the company grow its competitive edge with the Nozomi presses.”
According to EFI, the Nozomi C18000 presses Orora is installing are breakthrough production products that enable full-scale digital production of short to medium run corrugated packaging jobs.
They eliminate many of the challenges associated with digital corrugated board production by offering fast production speeds up to 75 linear metres per minute.
Key features on Orora’s Nozomi presses include:
- Extended-gamut printing for accurate brand colour reproduction with six-colour imaging plus white;
- High-quality, accurate output in resolutions up to 360x720 dots per inch with four-level greyscale imaging;
- A fully integrated, programmable top- and bottom-feed system that also handles media separation, lift, transport and alignment at full press speeds;
- A 100% in-line image quality inspection system that actively compensates for inkjet nozzle, alignment and uniformity errors for the highest possible imaging quality; and
- High productivity with a permanent head architecture that eliminates the downtime associated with replacing consumable printheads.
EFI says output from the presses will have certification for OCC recyclability and repulpability from the Western Michigan University Recycling, Paper and Coating Pilot Plant – a leading certification organisation for corrugated recycling.
Advanced workflows
Next-generation, ultra-fast and scalable EFI Fiery NZ-1000 digital front ends (DFEs) installed with the presses will give Orora the processing power needed to develop a broader range of production applications, including multi-SKU and versioned jobs where digital offers distinct economic advantages over analogue production.
Fuelling digital print success
EFI’s partnership with Orora also extends into the production workflow space, with Orora collaborating with EFI on workflow innovations, including technologies used in the EFI Corrugated Packaging Suite manufacturing execution system.
The overall partnership for packaging production technologies is the next major step EFI and Orora have taken together after the recent EFI VUTEk superwide-format printer purchases Orora completed for its U.S. point-of-purchase and visual communications business, Orora Visual
