Gravure Case Studies
| Shorewood Packaging Formalizes Press Training With Gravure |
It’s not easy to find trained gravure operators in Newport News, Virginia. All of the operators in the
rural Shorewood Packaging plant have come up through the ranks, trained by existing staff while on
the job. With gravure presses running at $900 per hour, the plant has found this to be a very expensive
learning curve. So when it began putting together a formal training program for gravure operators, the
plant turned to a PackSim press simulator from Sinapse Print Simulators.
| Westvaco Case Study |
Westvaco has been using PackSim (Packaging Simulator) for a little over a year. The goal was to find an efficient and effective way to improve their troubleshooting training, and, ultimately, the troubleshooting skills of their press personnel.
| Italians take Lead in Gravure Training Technology |
The packaging industry is one of the most dynamic segments of the graphic sector in Italy. This is particularly true in Northern Italy where gravure is often the process of preference for large companies.
| Pilots use simulators |
I saw the early, pilot version of the simulator being demonstrated at the Sinapse H.Q. in Paris/F in the spring of 1998. It looked very promising then - but I wanted to see how far the project had progressed since then. I was not disappointed. ERA supported the promotion of this "training tool" during the IPEX exhibition and saw first hand the popularity and potential it has.
- Arabic, Finnish, Korean, Japanese now available in Sheetfed Simulator
- Windows 7 versions of simulators now available
- London WorldSkills in 2011 to use Sinapse Simulators
- Denmark and Italy hold Simulation seminars
- Poland installs 2nd Sheetfed simulator
- Norwegian Print Association installs first Sheetfed Simulator
- UPM-Kymmene takes delivery of new generation Heatset simulator
- TEVTA Egypt installs first 2 simulators
- BCIT in Canada installs Flexo & Sheetfed Simulator
- Hunan China adds Flexo & Sheetfed simulators
- Asian User Meeting in Beijing attended by 6 countries
- New Finnish installation at Heltech in Helsinki
- Transcontinental adds Sheetfed simulator to its distance learning package for Mexico
- Beijing University adds second set of simulators: now has total of 37: Sheetfed, Flexo, Gravure, Heatset
- CORBPP in Poland adds Flexo simulator
- Island of La Réunion orders 2nd Sheetfed Simulator
- Korea, Latin America, Indonesia :new distributors join Sinapse network
- Pamplona Spain installs Sheetfed simulator
Vistaprint Canada installs first SHOTS Sheetfed simulator
- Jyvaskyla and Metropolia in Finland install SHOTS, Flexo, Heatset
- AIDO in Spain installs Flexo
- Toppan installs first SHOTS in Japan – in Japanese
- Heidelberg North-East Africa installs SHOTS in Egypt and becomes regional distributor
- PT Gramedia, Indonesia, installs first SHOTS
- Hungary : 1st Flexo simulator in Budapest
- Hdm Stutttgart installs 6th simulator, 2nd heatset
- Le Telegramme signs for multiyear training program with Newspaper Simulator
- Total Simulators installed now > 1700
- Supercolor (Italy) installs Sheetfed Simulator
- RR Donnelley using simulators in 40+ sites
- UPM now offering simulator-based training courses
- FTA Training Certificate now available for Flexo Simulator Curriculum
- Hersant Media installs newspaper simulators at 4+ sites – 3 year extended use contract
- Flexo and Newspaper Simulators now available in CHINESE
- Nampak in Nigeria and Shorewood in US still happily using Gravure simulators
- French Government recommends simulators for all vocational print degree schools-
- Packaging Gravure Simulator now available in German
- GATF/Sinapse Training Certificate now available for qualified simulator users
- Indonesia installs second set of Heatset and Sheetfed simulators – and connects them to press console.
- Transcontinental now in 5th year of multisite simulator (Heatset/Sheetfed) contract
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