Arimpeks takes second QuadTech Inspection System

Established in 1987, Arimpeks Aluminium is a pharmaceutical packaging printer with a strong market share. Arimpeks Aluminium installed its first QuadTech Inspection System in 2013, alongside QuadTech Data Central reporting software, on one of its pharmaceutical gravure lines.

After installing the first QuadTech system on its gravure press, waste at Arimpeks Aluminium was significantly reduced. Following this, the company was very eager to improve the performance on its other gravure pharmaceutical line. Since its second QuadTech installation, the company reports significant improvements to this line as well. It is now investigating the possibility of implementing QuadTech's Waste Management System.

Installed at the company's Gebze plant in April, the latest QuadTech 100 percent web inspection and data management software enables Arimpeks Aluminium to deliver defect-free output, as required by customers. It has been able to do this on challenging thin and reflective substrates, further reducing waste while increasing print quality, productivity and job turnaround.

Noyan Özler, Arimpeks Aluminium general manager, said: ‘With our new QuadTech Inspection System, we are now able to enjoy significant production savings in both time and cost. This has meant that our customers can speed up product time-to-market.

‘But also, through the QuadTech systems' ability to maximize saleable print and reduce expensive substrate waste, we can now offer even faster and more competitive service to our customers. This not only ensures that customers receive consistent print quality for a wider range of jobs, but for us, it opens up many new business opportunities.

‘With the confidence and competitiveness provided by our QuadTech Inspection Systems, we are also now targeting work outside of Turkey.’

Özler added: ‘When inspecting for defects manually, while our operators are highly skilled and able to identify many defects by eye, this process could never be perfect. As a result, faults were sometimes missed and others not quickly rectified. This led to production waste that we were keen to eradicate.

‘In addition, as pharmaceutical packaging substrates are often reflective and very fragile – for example 20µm lacquered aluminum foil for blister packs – this also makes them difficult to examine and handle manually, which added further waste to our process.’