Production Capabilities
Production Capabilities
The Jai Santhosh Offset Press produces cartonboard packaging for the food and healthcare markets for a wide range of customers, including the leading supermarket chains.
Group Facilities
With four production sites across the INDIA, Jai Santhosh Offset Press is one of the largest independent folding carton producers in the country. With group production facilities including high-quality sheet-fed litho printing presses, Jai Santhosh Offset Press is able to cope with a huge volume of packaging production – produces in excess of 20,000,000 cartons every single week.
Carton Production
The Jai Santhosh’s Offset Press unparalleled carton printing capacity enables us to meet significant manufacturing demands in a short period of time.
Our food plants are equipped with market-leading litho printing presses capable of handling substrates of up to B1 in format, and at speeds of up to 18,000 sheets per hour. Presses are equipped to print with UV inks and coatings.
Jai Santhosh’s Offset Press precision engineered presses are built by world leading manufacturers including Heidelberg and Komori, and can deliver up to six colour print and up to two coatings in one pass. Our presses are equipped to provide short make-ready times and maximum throughput and configured to produce in-line UV varnishing.
Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing control procedures means the performance of each press is monitored regularly – measuring the number of make-readies carried out, the number of sheets printed and average printing speeds. Regular maintenance is scheduled for each production unit to guarantee maximum productivity from each press.
Ink Laboratories
On-site ink laboratory equipment keeps ink matching and mixing up to the required quality and consistency. This means that ink used in geographically disparate sites can be matched on the press. We work with one ink supplier across the Group to guarantee consistency.
Jai Santhosh Offset Press can offer the use of proprietary low migration, UV curing sheet-fed offset ink for the production of food packaging, even when the UV lamps are not at full intensity. Inks are designed for food packaging, taking into account relevant requirements.
Special Properties
- Low migration
- Excellent results of organoleptic assessment of prints
- Fast curing
- High fount solution tolerance
- Good ink/water balance
- Hot foil stampable
Benefits
The UV offset ink in the market with its low migration properties guaranteed. These inks are low migration: the ink film contains only substances that do not migrate or that are evaluated for food contact. The low migration property is maintained even when the UV lamps are not at full intensity.
Substrates & Printing Process
- Coated, uncoated papers and boards
- Conditionally for pre-treated PE,PP (corona or gas flame) or pre-primed material (tests necessary)
- Top-coated boards (tests necessary)
- UV sheet-fed offset
- UV continuous forms
- UV letterpress printing with inline Corona treatment
Post-Printing Equipment
State-of-the-art post printing machines enable swift turnaround for high order volumes and complex designs.
Cut and crease / window patching / pick & place
The Jai Santhosh’s Offset Press carton making technology is second to none in terms of potential volume and breadth of process capability. Our facilities are equipped with sixteen cut and crease presses manufactured by Bobst, with seven window patching units that can incorporate acetate viewing material into the printed pack. In addition, our specialist pick and place machine is available to create more sophisticated three sided windowed cartons.
Braille
Braille and embossing equipment is also present in throughout the Group, included on all drug packages so that clients meet all statutory requirements.
Gluing
Some 18 gluing machines are available across the Group’s four production facilities allowing sites to produce a variety of styles including straight line, crash lock, four corner and six corner, as well as nested trays. Packing products include a sampler device so that samples can be removed from every outer. Machines are also equipped with full barcode and glue detection system linked to the gluers own ejection system. To aid speedy delivery the company uses automated case erectors to supply made up cases to the high-speed production units.
Additional Finishes
Foil blocking and lamination equipment are just some of the additional process products that are also available.
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