McLean Packaging recently moved one of its manufacturing facilities from Philadelphia to a new 100,000 sq ft plant in Moorestown, N.J., to streamline workflow and run its new Roland 700 Ultima custom-built sheetfed press. The press is equipped with seven printing units and three flexo coating units.

“We are the only independent manufacturer in the nation that designs and manufactures this combination of products: rigid paper boxes, plastic folding boxes, corrugated folding boxes, corrugated displays, and corrugated boxes,” says Joe Fenkel, ceo of McLean Packaging. “The Ultima completes that circle, allowing us to produce all of these applications more efficiently. (It) can handle plastics as thin as two or three mils, all the way up to 40 pt board, and everything in between.”

The unit offers special effects that can be created inline with its combination of offset and flexo printing units. According to Fenkel, the first flexo unit allows users to put down whites, or golds, or silvers, then print over them and coat the job, all in one pass. Additionally, McLean has also installed equipment for diecutting, stamping, and die tooling that is configured to Ultima’s 41-inch sheet size to complete all finishing steps in-house as well. The machine can also print all UV coatings and inks and houses the latest interdeck UV dryers to optimize the process.