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embassy in Milan, Italy, reviewed Engico’s application to let its employees travel to the United States. After receiv- ing approval, the five Engico employees who journeyed to PCG’s super plant in New York to install the machine, Ben- zoni among them, tested positive for the coronavirus and were quarantined in a hotel near the plant. More delays. “Logistically, the obstacles were unbelievable, but the machine was finally up and running on February 17,” says Goldberg. “Rinaldo and his team did a fantastic job, which was a shining example of his commitment to grow his busi- ness. From the minute we turned the machine on, the En- gico has been making boxes.” By removing its old 1636 and its McKinley and replac- ing them with Engico’s dual-sized machine, PCG can now run boxes “that are down in the 1228 world all the way up to the 220,” according to Goldberg. “The flexibility com- bined with the speed associated with the technology is huge.” He appreciates the imagination and creativity on the part of Engico’s Benzoni and Daniele Mazzola, who for 15 years has been the company’s mechanical engineer and Benzoni’s “right-hand” man. “Daniele has been able to polish the design of the machine to make it extreme- ly customer-friendly. His ability to transfer Rinaldo’s vision into the machine now running on our floor is incredible. That relationship is special,” says Goldberg. Production speeds on the Engico – it can convert between 2,000 and 8,000 boxes per hour – have been
have it up and running by September 2020. The installa- tion, however, did not go as planned. The COVID Effect Along with the rest of the global economy, the impact of the pandemic wreaked havoc on Engico’s ability to per- form a timely and efficient installation in Middletown, New York. Major shipping delays at the ports caused the ma-
chine’s delivery timeline to be adjusted time and again. The machine that should have been converting boxes at PCG by November didn’t even arrive in the U.S. until De- cember, and then it had to be put in storage while the N.I.E. (National Interest Exception), the authority at the American PCG’s Engico has two 66-inch printers and one 99-inch.
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