Automatic Corrugated Board Making Plant- Analysis of its Viability in Current Economic Conditions
The best benefit of 5 ply plant is, you can deliver the boxes in dry condition much faster than the single facer plant. If you have the kraft paper you can produce the boxes within one hour. The finish of the boxes is better than the single facer box. Even with lower grammage paper you can produce better boxes. The compression strength of 5 ply plant box is about 10% higher than the single facer box. This is my experience. The labour requirement is less in the 5 ply plant and you can use 5 different types of paper, 5 different varieties of paper to produce a single box to achieve a different specification in the box. These are the few of the benefits of 5 ply plant.
Cost –wise when you compare it, to the single facer, when we have more orders we can even go for even 2-3 more single facers in a bigger way. When you have the larger orders, continuous orders, of making one particular box in thousands numbers per day, it is the best. The board will be definitely good and if the order is for 100 gsm, if you use even 90 it will not go wrong in the 5 ply plant. The appearance of the board, will be definitely better than the what we do in the normal plant machine.
to a certain extent there is fibre saving in automatic plant. You can go up to even as low as 80 gsm also.
It involves no doubt very less labour when compared to regular units and you save more on the glue because you use only one type of glue both in the double baker as well as corrugation. In other things you use the cooked gum. Slightly expensive. And any gsm can be handled, there are no problems. you can deliver the boxes to any customer as urgently as possible. Probably, Just In Time can be applied very well here. They are all basically good for the long run. you can set the machine, for the size and specification, can run it for a week’s time without