FMN | January 21st, 2019

Tapecon Grows With Flexo Wash Partnership

Flexo Market News I NTERNET D IRECTORY

When Tapecon, Buffalo, New York, needed to ex- pand its print quality processes back in 2007, the company turned to Flexo Wash.The partnership with Flexo Wash allowed the company to clean its anilox rolls more efficiently and thoroughly without damage or increased downtime on press. They purchased a single roll Flexo Wash Anilox Cleaner and reportedly saw increases in productivity immediately. Growing Business That single stationAnilox Cleaner servedTapecon well but with business growing, the company once again turned to Flexo Wash and bought a FW Handy 2×2 Anilox Cleaner, large enough to clean four anilox rolls at a time. As a result,FMN the company reports that it prints 253 days a year and spends about two minutes cleaning each roll whereas before the Flexo Wash tech- nology, it spent 15 minutes per roll. Cleaning supply cost, the company reports, is too minimal to categorize. Cause And Effect Tapecon utilizes the 6M Method of Cause and Ef- fect Analysis in all of their operational processes: Manpower, Materials, Measurements, Mother Nature, Methods and Machines. If any person or process is down for 15 minutes, they write down the name, date and issue and post

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on a public message board that gets addressed week- ly by a group of Tapecon engineers.They analyze and solve the problem, using this 6M process. Since the purchase of the new FW Handy 2×2, dirty anilox has never come up as a problem. “This is a testimony to the new system because be- fore, it was a pain point,” according to Director of Op- erations, Michael Gerbera. Technology from Flexo Wash has allowed Tapecon to control the quality of its print quality processes and reduce its downtime.

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