Colbert Packaging Buys the Longest RMGT Press to Be Built in North AmericaColbert Packaging Buys the Longest RMGT Press to Be Built in North America

Colbert Packaging has purchased a new RMGT sheetfed offset press to be installed at its Kenosha, WI facility. The secondary paperboard packaging company expects it to be the longest RMGT press built in North America when fully operational in the spring of 2025. It will help Colbert enhance services to its pharmaceutical, healthcare, and consumer goods customers with inline capabilities for multiple colors, coatings, foil enhancement.

The single-pass RMGT 1060TP-LX 10-CC-LD+UV press, purchased from North American distributor RM Machinery, prints eight colors on the top sheet and, using a tandem perfector, two on the bottom. Jobs that currently take two or three passes will soon be printed in one, even with complex graphics with up to two colors on the inside of a carton, with precise machine and color controls. Cold foil capability delivers new metallic embellishment with hairline registration that hot stamping or other methods don’t offer. It also adds security features without the need for 100% laminated foil board as other presses require.

John Lackner, Colbert’s president and chief operating officer, says the press “allow us more inline capabilities that reduce production bottlenecks and shorten lead times while offering customers many options.” The company reports the new single-pass press will eliminate an estimated 500,000 impressions per month for greater printing volume and capacity and improved turnaround times. In addition to its capabilities, the machine will support the company’s vision for sustainability.

According to a report from Printing Impressions, the new press will replace two existing presses at Colbert’s 170,000-square-foot at the Kenosha facility. An existing Eagle Systems cold foil unit at Colbert will also be transferred to the new press after it is installed in February 2025.