Catapult Ups Productivity With Flexo Wash Technology Catapult Print, Orlando, Florida, is customer-driven business that has invested heavily in the latest technol- ogy. When company CEO Mark Cook started Catapult Print in April of 2018, he invested in Nilpeter presses and kitted out their production site with the most in- novative technology. Catapult operates 24/7 to fulfill demand and ensure they are always delivering for the customer.They are rapidly growing, having just installed their fourth Nil- peter press in the space of two short years with the capacity to house ten full-time presses. Cook recognized that the lost time incurred by poor anilox and parts cleaning was a pressure-point toward the company’s “zero down-time” objective. The former anilox cleaner that Catapult used was causing some tension towards the company’s tight production goals, which in turn slowed down the efficiencies driven by their advanced make-ready procedure. The cleaning portion of the production chain was the weak link, with too much time being spent trying to clean aniloxes that never really were getting clean.
In light of this, Catapult purchased the FW Handy 2x2 Anilox Cleaner.This anilox cleaner allows for four aniloxes to be cleaned in a single cycle, removing all unnecessary down-time and producing like-new parts after every wash. After seeing the positive results from the FlexoWash Anilox Cleaner, Catapult decided to purchase the PK Eco Maxi WR PartsWasher, as well. Before installing the FlexoWash equipment: • Catapult cleaned 1-5 anilox rolls per day, some- times running the same anilox for hours as it wouldn’t be clean enough. • It spent $13,000 a year on cleaning solutions. •The former anilox cleaner could only clean one an- ilox at a time. • To clean an anilox roll, it would have to be run many times through the cleaner as it was not clean enough on the first pass. •The company had a few hours of downtime a week dealing with dirty anilox rolls. • Parts were cleaned manually by hand, by one dedi- cated employee. • Cleaning parts would consume an entire shift. After installing the FlexoWash equipment: (Cont’d on Page 12)
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