Gambini and Kawanoe Zoki delivers its first TouchMax technology at Fuji Satowa

The recently established partnership between Gambini and Kawanoe Zoki, the Japanese industry leader in tissue-converting machinery, has already led to great results: for the first time a Japanese tissue producer has chosen Gambini’s TouchMax technology for its embossing needs.

Fuji Satowa was founded in 1922 and is now located in Fuji city, Shizuoka prefecture, at the center of Japanese paper industry. Mostly, it produces toilet paper, using recycled pulp such as pre- and post-consumer waste material.

“The key to success in matured bathroom tissue market in Japan is how you can differentiate your products. I see TouchMax.Twin as a powerful measure for the future, for its ability to realize both highly differentiated products and flexible manufacturing. Many machine-makers offer standardized machines; Gambini, by working together with Kawanoe Zoki, is ready to meet our needs for installation into an existing line and adaptation to Japanese standards. I highly appreciate Gambini’s attitude,” says Yoshimasa Satowa, president of Fuji Satowa.

This TouchMax – which marks the 72nd time a customer of Gambini’s has chosen this cutting-edge turret-style family of embossers – will be installed into an existing converting line of Kawanoe Zoki’s, demonstrating the flexibility of these products.

TouchMax is a patented technology embosser providing extraordinary flexibility during product changeover, thus multiplying the marketing opportunities related to different embossing patterns. It is one of the most flexible embosser on the market, guaranteeing a finished product with consistent high quality. It also features a high level of safety, as the rolls’ configuration can be carried out with no intervening operator. Its extreme flexibility enables the independent configuration of embossing on both top and bottom webs, so as to get to different final products for different: technical types of embossing, diameters (even with the same amount of paper) and exterior appearances; thus satisfying the demands for differentiation requested by customers and consumers; not to mention the ever increasing needs of optimization and continuity of production.

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