23 November 2017

Polar ‘Express’ for Acorn Press

Swindon based Acorn Press plans to boost its growth plans with its £150,000 investment and recent installation of a new Polar cutting line from Heidelberg.

Patrick Crouch, MD of Acorn Press, said, "We're looking to grow our business and this new equipment felt like the right choice and most suitable for us having looked at comparable equipment.  We will be ready for increased demand for automation and electronic assistance - the equipment will run 24/7 to give us increased efficiency, but we still want to have the best and most reliable operators to run it.  To that end, we've also invested in new team members to grow the Acorn team."

The N137 is a high-speed, automatic guillotine, which has a maximum cutting width of 1,370mm.  It runs at a speed of up to 45 cycles/min and can work alongside Cut Manager software to analyse job length performance.  This is fed by a stack lift and jogger equipped with scales to enable accurate measurement of ream quantities, and completed by a Transomat unloader.  It replaced a 20-year-old Polar Flowline.  Coupled with the addition of Compucut and Cut Manager software, the Swindon-based firm now expects a leap in productivity.

Dawn Reid, Regional Director for the BPIF South West, said, "This is great news for the team, who's plans for growth are now well and truly underway."

For more information on Acorn Press see: http://www.acornpress.co.uk