Printing & Converting
Printing, Flexible Packaging, and Converting Expertise
Deep, hands-on expertise across the entire converting value chain — from extrusion through printing, coating, laminating, slitting, and finishing.
Signature service
Flexographic Press Specification, Installation, and Startup
The value of a printing press is not established when it is purchased. It is established when the press repeatedly produces acceptable product at target speed, quality, waste, safety, and profitability levels.
- Central-impression flexographic presses
- Wide-web flexible-packaging presses
- UV flexographic printing
- Rotogravure printing
- Film, foil, paper, and label printing
- Flexible packaging
- Press specification & selection
- Technical bid comparison
- Factory acceptance testing
- Facility preparation, foundations, rigging
- Dryer, curing, and ink systems
- Viscosity, temperature, and solvent handling
- UV curing, corona treatment, web cleaning
- Web inspection, register & impression control
- Anilox selection, doctor-blade, plate/sleeve systems
- Tension control & web handling
- Color control & defect reduction
- Waste reduction & speed optimization
- Process qualification, operator training
- Maintenance planning & ramp-up
Full converting scope
Complete Converting Expertise
- Blown-film extrusion
- Cast-film extrusion
- Extrusion coating
- Adhesive, solventless, and solvent-based lamination
- Water- and solvent-based coatings
- Lacquer application
- Metallized structures
- Flexible-packaging structures
- Paper and film converting
- Slitting and rewinding
- Inspection
- Bag and pouch making
- Shrink-sleeve production
- Label production
- Coating, mixing & material handling systems
- Roll handling and web guiding
- Tension, static, and corona control
- Drying, curing, defect inspection
- Process controls, automation, SCADA
- Production-data systems
Joseph understands how individual machines must function as part of a complete manufacturing system — not as isolated pieces of equipment. Presses, extruders, coaters, laminators, slitters, and finishing lines must work together as a production system to deliver quality, speed, and cost.