QLM Label Makers is investing $2.5m into upgrading its equipment, with the installation of three new Mark Andy flexographic label presses adding to the existing Mark Andy P5 in its Brisbane site, in addition to significant upgrades to the finishing equipment for its HP Indigo digital platform.
Simon Pugh, CEO of the QLM Group says, “This investment provides us with presses that are a common width, allowing us to alternate jobs and get better efficiencies. What we have now is the flexibility to switch jobs between presses and this has delivered improved lead times.”
QLM decided to go with a complete Mark Andy suite of flexographic presses for its Brisbane manufacturing facility. Andrew Siwicki, general manager of QLM Australia says, “We wanted a platform that would propel us to be in the higher section of what can be achieved in the industry. The market is highly competitive and to compete your machinery needs to be current, efficient and relevant. For us, that relevance was switching to common width presses, which has allowed us to get more consistency and efficiency.
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“It has been a good decision for the business and the QLM has always heavily invested back into print technology and people, to ensure the company continues to be one step ahead.”
In its Boronia factory in Melbourne, the company has upgraded digital finishing, an including upgraded in-line coating unit to run with its HP Indigo digital colour press, and the addition of premium embellishments with an in inline digital finishing system that foil, raise-screen varnish, and provide embossing and die-cutting.
QLM says its investment strategy reflects its commitment to increasing productivity and reducing down time.
QLM Label Makers is an Australian company founded in 1973 by David and Del Pugh with headquarters in Brisbane and sites across Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. It employs 92 locally and has a total of 560 staff across 7 plants in 6 countries around Asia Pacific.
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