Arimpeks Aluminium Ltd., Gebze, Turkey, has installed its
second QuadTech Inspection System to its pharmaceutical and blister pack
gravure printing lines. Bolstering the company's market-leading position, the
QuadTech system is not only reducing production costs, but increasing customer
service flexibility and enabling pharmaceutical manufacturers to deliver
products to market much faster.
Installed at the company's Gebze
plant in April of 2014, QuadTech's 100% web inspection and data management
software now enables Arimpeks to deliver defect-free output, as required by
customers. It has been able to do this on challenging thin and reflective
substrates, further reducing waste while increasing print quality, productivity
and job turnaround.
Mr. Noyan Özler, Arimpeks general
manager, explains, "With our new QuadTech Inspection System, we are now
able to enjoy significant production savings in both time and cost. This has
meant that our customers can speed up product time-to-market. But also, through
the QuadTech systems' ability to maximize saleable print and reduce expensive
substrate waste, we can now offer even faster and more competitive service to
our customers.
"This not only ensures that
customers receive consistent print quality for a wider range of jobs, but for
us, it opens up many new business opportunities. With the confidence and
competitiveness provided by our QuadTech Inspection Systems, we are also now
targeting work outside of Turkey."
Established in 1987, Arimpeks is
the leading pharmaceutical packaging printer in Turkey, with a remarkable
market share. As the company grew, the requirement for an automated inspection
system became essential to ensuring consistent quality standards and maximizing
productivity. In 2013, Arimpeks installed its first QuadTech Inspection System
and QuadTech Data Central reporting software, on one of its pharmaceutical
gravure lines.
Mr. Noyan Özler, continues,
"When inspecting for defects manually, while our operators are highly
skilled and able to identify many defects by eye, this process could never be
perfect. As a result, faults were sometimes missed and others not quickly
rectified. This led to production waste that we were keen to eradicate.
"In addition, as pharma
packaging substrates are often reflective and very fragile-for example 20µm
lacquered aluminium foil for blister packs-this also makes them difficult to
examine and handle manually, which added further waste to our process."
After installing the first
QuadTech solution on its gravure press, waste at Arimpeks was significantly
reduced. Following this, the company was very eager to improve the performance
on its other gravure pharmaceutical line. Since its second QuadTech
installation, the company reports significant improvements to this line as
well.
QuadTech's Inspection System
ensures print product consistency, inspecting the entire substrate 100% of the
time at full press speeds. The equipment also utilizes LEDs with a closed-loop
temperature control system for stable, high quality light output that can be
configured for any substrate thickness and material transparency.
QuadTech Data Central for
Inspection enables the operator to evaluate jobs and the Inspection System's
findings. It integrates seamlessly into any existing equipment and provides a
central location for QuadTech inspection systems to store, report and audit
data for optimal control. Importantly, stored data can be used to showcase
print quality, to show customers the consistent results that are achieved. The
data can also be used for waste removal.
"We are very pleased with
our QuadTech systems and their contribution to our growth. We are already looking
at additional ways to improve what we do, and are currently investigating
QuadTech's Waste Management System. We have exciting times ahead,"
concludes Mr. Özler.
