25 January 2017

An exciting start to 2017 for KSP Group

Oxfordshire-based KSP purchased a DA 900 box-wrapper, a DA 905 3D printer and a DA 1004 Casemaker, all from Italian manufacturer Industria Meccanica Lombarda (IML), in doing so have become the first UK company to install all three of their machines. KSP directors Kevin Woodcock and Jason Cleary said on the £500,000+ turnover outfit we made the decision to bring box-wrapping in-house after it was commissioned for a job in July for the wrapping of three-piece rigid boxes, which was being done by hand. It has since been commissioned for two more 1,000 runs of the same job for a Kent-based company.

"We flew to Milan at the end of November after seeing IML at a show and were stunned by the simplicity of how the box-wrapper works and how fast it was going. We got talking to Steve and Julia Giddins at Perfect Bindery Solutions who flew us to Milan where we saw the factory these machines were assembled in and were pretty much sold on it," said Mr Woodcock.

"It frees up a worker as we don't need to individually hand-wrap, whic allows a second person to carry on with productivity gains on case making, which in turn frees someone up to help with growth on screen printing."

They added that it will be able to wrap around 300-600 rigid boxes an hour. It was installed on 14 December, with the 3D printer coming in the following week.