David Wilson, chairman of Kingston Carton, said that "the economy is picking up, especially here in the U.K., which has resulted in us seeing a 25% increase in our order book compared with a year ago. Our ethos has always been to invest in new capacity before we need it, so that we can ensure continuity of supply to our customers. However, we wanted to do more than that with this investment and use it to develop markets that are new to us. Very high volume work takes up a lot of machine time and, historically, we have chosen not to take it on because it might compromise the service levels that we provide to our existing customers. But now that our capacity has increased so dramatically we can easily handle that sort of work without any knock-on effects." 

 

The two new BOBST machines are a VISIONCUT 106 LE die-cutter (photo) with an optical lateral register system and an EXPERTFOLD 110 multipurpose folder-gluer. 

 

Arend Buitendam Sr., managing director of Kingston Carton, said that "the VISIONCUT gives us an extra thousand sheets an hour, while its optical lateral register system means that we can run faster on tight register work. It complements our existing VISIONCUT and the number of sheets that these two machines can put on the floor is very impressive."