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co Jumbo.) Alliance Packaging bought their own Engico in March of 2023 and began preparations for the installation by contacting its long-time supplier, ACS, which had done the bulk of the conveyor work in Alliance’s other divisions and was involved from the project’s beginning with the layout and CAD work. “We had a really good idea of what they were look- ing to achieve, from bringing in sheets off the truck from across the street at Sheets Unlimited to having the amount of work and process storage that they wanted, then feed- ing the machine,” says Michael Swanson, Regional Sales Manager at ACS. “We laid out some WIP conveyor, added a manually operated transfer car to bring stock in off the trucks and then fit it all into the plant, which was probably the biggest challenge of the entire project.” Given the size of the Engico machine and where it had to go in the plant, Alliance Packaging had to do other prep work that included moving mezzanines, tooling stor- age and maintenance equipment, and other machines. Its magnificent new Engico was “rolled in” on 10 open-top containers. The heaviest piece of equipment was 80,000 pounds – a mere 40 tons! – and unloading the machine and its varied components took two days. Engico uses its own install team and it took about two weeks for it to get the machine on its foundation and then another two-and-a-half weeks to run cable and wiring. “We
is “the highest-producing piece of machinery we have in the corporation.” He adds that the Engico will eventually out-produce the Falcon because it takes a bigger blank through the machine.
On one of his “research visits” to Lawrence Paper, Le- land remembers being impressed with the Engico running there, then the first installation of its kind in the US. “I made the comment that, man, if we ever replace the jumbo we were running, we’re going to buy an Engico,” he says. (Note: Lawrence Paper is now running their second Engi- An Isowa FP50 Flexo Folder Gluer, which Krist Leland says is the highest producing piece of machinery at Alliance Packag- ing but will be out-produced by the Engico Jumbo because it runs bigger blanks.
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