Kyoshin Paper and Package decided on Heidelberg Primefire 106 as their next digital press to expand their web-to-pack business on top of the traditional packaging business by signing a contract of the first Primefire 106 in Japan in April 2019. Heidelberg will install the digital printing system in Kyoshin Paper and Package’s brand-new Kanto plant this summer.

Kyoshin Paper and Package was founded in Kobe, Japan in summer of 1948. Since then, their ‘challenging spirit’ is the beating heat of the company as a successful packaging service provider and currently 290 employees are working with the company.

In 2013, the company expanded its packaging business launching web-to-pack service called Hacoplay focusing on the demand of small size and small quantity with digital presses. The company accepts orders even for a single box with shortest delivery time of three days. Kyoshin Paper and Package could only print B2 size at most on their existing digital press. To further expand their web-to-pack business, they were looking for a B1 digital press that could meet their demanding customer needs.

Kyoshin Paper and Package first saw the Heidelberg’s Primefire 106 press at drupa 2016 and requested for print test. Kazuhiro Kajikawa, executive managing director of Hacoplay division, said, “The result of the print test was excellent. The print quality such as green and orange were outstanding and we felt that the quality of print by Primefire 106 was the most beautiful we have ever seen. The consistency of quality between first and 500th sheets was also amazingly stable that surprised even our offset press operator who was with me for the test. Other interesting feature of Primefire 106 for us is to be able to cover 95 % of Pantone color because we as packaging printer have to use a lot of special colors for package printing. By enlarging the size from A3 to B2, we were able to expand our business and we are expecting more by going for B1 size with Primefire 106.”

The Primefire 106 is the first available industrial digital printing press for packaging in B1 format. “Japan is a very important market for us as it is among the top countries for folding carton production and it has probably the highest standards of image quality in the world,” explains Montserrat Peidró-Insa, head of Digital Print Business at Heidelberg. “The success of Primefire customers is what drives our entire team. We are proud to have such a reputed company like Kyoshin Paper and Package selecting Primefire 106 to accelerate their company growth. With this new installation, Primefire is expanding its global presence even further and consolidating itself as a business growth enabler in packaging.”