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500 SHEETS A MINUTE — WHY PREFEEDERS MAY DECIDE YOUR LINE’S OEEA prefeeder may look like secondary equipment, but on a fast corrugated converting line it can determine whether rated speed becomes real output. At 500 sheets/minute, even short feeding interruptions quickly turn into thousands of sheet...

MEXICO’S CORRUGATED-BOX EXPORTS ROSE 40% IN FOUR YEARSMexico exported US$319.7 million of corrugated boxes in 2024 — and 96.4% of that value went to the United States. Five Mexican states generated almost 69% of exports, showing how closely the country’s corrugated industry is tied to North American...

£710,000 A YEAR — HIDDEN INSIDE A £25M SHEET PLANT?Amtech’s UK-reviewed model indicates that a typical £25m sheet plant may have £710,000+ in potential annual cost reduction and nearly 4,000 staff hours that could be reclaimed.At UKCITS 2026 in Telford, Amtech will let visitors test their own plant ...

🔥 400,000 METERS IN 24 HOURS​Fabyab and BHS Corrugated hit a milestone in Iraq: their upgraded VALUE S line ran 400 linear km in 24 hours at ~278 m/min average speed (~93% of capacity).​Yet rated speed alone doesn't guarantee profit without OEE and waste data. Real productivity often means unlockin...

WHAT DOES MACHINERY RELOCATION REALLY COST?Tadas Šalkauskas, CEO of MachineryAssist, explains why the contractor’s quote is only one part of the real economic cost of moving industrial equipment. Production downtime can ultimately cost far more than the difference between two relocation offers.The i...

HOW MUCH CAN A CORRUGATED PALLET REALLY CARRY?The load capacity of a corrugated pallet depends not only on its design, but also on the strength of the corrugated board itself. ixs-pal® tests show a clear relationship between ECT and recommended working load — from around 400 kg to more than 1,100 kg...

ACCCSA 2026 FINAL DAY: 850 PARTICIPANTS, 365 COMPANIES, 125 STANDSEmmepi Group, BOBST, BHS Corrugated, BW Papersystems, Koenig & Bauer, TECHLAB SYSTEMS, Smurfit Westrock and other major industry names are in Guatemala for ACCCSA 2026. The key discussion is moving beyond machine speed toward automati...

SAICA COMPLETES THIMM ACQUISITION — 1.2 BILLION M² OF CORRUGATED CAPACITY CHANGES HANDSSaica Group has completed its acquisition of THIMM Group, adding nearly 2,500 employees, nine corrugated board plants and one preprint site across Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania.Our analysis looks...

AMTECH SOFTWARE: “THE CUSTOMER WANTS IT TOMORROW.”The machines are connected. The business isn’t. Amtech Software looks at why faster, more reliable information can be just as important as faster equipment in a corrugated plant.Meet the Amtech team in Toruń on October 14–15 at the 15th “Corrugated C...

BOBST INDIA: NEW LEADERSHIP, LOCAL NOVAFFG PRODUCTION AND A BIGGER ROLE FOR PUNEBOBST is already manufacturing the NOVAFFG 1024 in India, and on September 9–10 the company will open a new Competence Centre in Pune. At the same time, Ashish Saxena has taken over as Managing Director of BOBST India, a...

INTERNATIONAL PAPER: $250M RIVERDALE CONVERSION — THE REAL TEST STARTS NOWPM16 has been converted from uncoated freesheet to containerboard, with full run rate targeted for Q1 2027. But International Paper still has not disclosed the machine’s new annual containerboard capacity — one of the key numb...

PPWR IS LIVE: CORRUGATED PRODUCERS MAY HAVE JUST 10 DAYS TO PROVE COMPLIANCESince 12 August 2026, PPWR has become a practical compliance issue for corrugated board producers. If a national authority makes a reasoned request, manufacturers may have only 10 days to provide the relevant technical docum...