Described as
Eastern Canada’s largest packaging company, Master Packaging of Prince
Edward Island is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its new 7-colour,
56-inch KBA Rapida 142 press.
First installed in May 2009,
through distributor KBR Graphics Ltd., the Rapida 142 is being used
within Master Packaging’s corrugate and folding-carton divisions. The
press also includes a coater, automatic plate changing and non-stop
facility at the feeder.
“Our new Rapida press will
allow our company to open up new markets with its new automated technology
so we can do shorter runs,” stated Mary Jean Irving, President
and CEO of Master Packaging, in a press release.
The company has won several
printing awards, since its founding in 1996, including a recent Gold
Award from the Flexographic Technology Association for “Technical
Achievement Exemplifying the Finest Capabilities of Flexographic Printing.”
After expanding its corrugate
plant by 33,000 square feet in 2000, Master Packaging in 2002 reached
a production milestone by exceeding 1-billion square feet of output
annually. The corrugate plant was then expanded by a further 60,000
square feet. A year later, the company’s Borden plant began a 68,000-square-foot,
folding-carton expansion.
Today, Master Packaging employs
over 340 people in two PEI plants, Borden and Charlottetown, as well
as third plant in Dieppe, New Brunswick.
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