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we could go after inside outside printing and that would be a differentiator for us. We’re one of the few companies in the Southeast that has two machines that can do inside outside, one-pass print.” Redundancy Ensures Continuity Not content to rest, Cumberland’s management team tackled their next project: creating redundancy across their principal machine centers to provide back-up in case of a prime-time breakdown. Two other pieces of equip- ment have joined the lineup at Cumberland to ensure production continuity: A J&L specialty gluer and a Gazella TW7200 stitcher. For its part, the J&L was purchased from a company in Canada, and serves not only as a relief valve on the company’s older Bobst Expert Fold, but it is also essential to handle the growing graphics and e-commerce work envisioned by Jared and his team. The Gazella, meanwhile, enhances Cumberland’s heavy-duty capabilities which are handled by its Revco 86-inch by 204-inch and Emba 66-inch by 190-inch flexo printers. “The Gazella is a great complement to our two big machines,” Jared said. “We took a contrarian view that most people don’t want to do that business, but we al- ready were doing stitching on an older machine, so this made us a lot more efficient.” Feeders, Bundlers and Conveyors With this arsenal of high-speed, high-throughput equip- ment, Cumberland faced the challenge of the push-pull of sheets and finished product through the plant, including feeding, scrap removal, bundling, strapping and convey- ing. In October 2021, Jared installed the Alliance pre-feed- ers on the Apstar flexo folder gluer and rotary die cutter, increasing production speeds to 14,000 blanks per hour. “We were getting really big sheets so having the pre-feeder was really essential,” he said. But the high- speed output also strained the bundling and conveying of finished boxes, so the management team chose the EAM Mosca® TRC6-SQ4 SoniXs® fully automatic squaring bun- dler, combining high-speed and flexibility to strap the wide variety of box sizes coming off the machine. “The addition- al machines put more stress on our main conveyor line,” Jared said. “We needed a better, faster, newer bundler, so we got the new Mosca bundler.” The last pieces in the material handling puzzle were scrap removal, and American Baler Company was chosen to supply the new system. In addition to the baler, Cumber- land upgraded its cyclone system, adding a custom-built secondary unit to increase its capacity. “We actually out- grew our old baler,” said Andew Miller, operations manag- er. “It wasn’t able to keep up with the number of bales per hour or per day. American Baler has been a great addition to our existing cyclone because when all machines were running, we were actually at overcapacity.” Jared and his team see the ROI on these investments in new market opportunities and expanded geographic CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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