40 years of continuous refinement

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series of corrugated board conversion ma-chines has evolved steadily, introducing several key innovations. Part of the secret of EMBA’s success is its concentration of all research, development and produc-tion in a purpose-built facility in central Sweden. Close collaboration between the customer and EMBA’s research, design and product-development teams has promoted continuous improvement and innovation. The latest example of this ongoing tradition of operational excellence is the state-of-the-art EMBA 245 QS Ultima™, a machine uniquely qualified to meet the multiple challenges of the 21st century.

Modest beginnings

EMBA’s origins date back to the 1940s, when Emballagemaskiner Larsson & Co

40 years of continuous

refinement

started specialised production of corrugated boxes and corrugated packaging machines. In 1954, operations were rationalised, and the company was divided into AB Transpor-temballage (corrugated box manufacture) and AB Emballagemaskiner, which con-centrated on development and production of machinery for semi and fully automatic folding and stitching of corrugated packag-ing. It was at this time, with an increasingly international market focus, that EMBA became the official trademark.

Dedicated to innovation

Until the late 1960s, the machines produced had limited functionality, being used for side-sealing only. This meant they folded and sealed pre-printed and slotted sheets of corrugated board, to form finished cor-rugated boxes.

The EMBA Flexo-Folder-Gluer revolutionized the corrugated board industry

when it was launched in 1968. Known as the EMBA 240, it marked a radical

advance in corrugated packaging technology, pioneering innovative features

that have since become indispensable in an increasingly competitive packaging

industry.

The very first EMBA 240 still in operation

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Strong base for a bright future

“It’s interesting to look back and see how quickly the company has developed over the past ten years,” says Niclas Berg, President of EMBA Machinery AB. “Computerisation has led to even faster and more efficient machines. We mean to stay at the forefront of technological excellence, and to play an active role in the development of corrugated boxes.”

Today, some 99 percent of production is exported, backed by an effective sales and service organization with units and agents throughout the world. Forty years after the introduction of its first FFG machine, EMBA now numbers some 250 employees in several different countries. Strong, practical and recyclable, corrugated board is a sustainable product derived from a renewable resource. As a key supplier to the industry, EMBA’s future seems bright! Acquisition by Sunds AB (later Sunds

Defibrator AB) in 1964, with a change of name to Sund EMBA, injected both know-how and capital, and in 1968, the company launched its radical Flexo-Folder-Gluer: the FFG 240. With its innovative vacuum transport technology, EMBA had once again revolutionised the corrugated board industry. It was this machine that really established EMBA as a major international supplier to the corrugated board industry, be-ing the first of a whole series of progressively more advanced Flexo-Folder-Gluers.

Accelerated development

EMBA’s pace of innovation continued to accelerate during the 1970s. The first EMBA 140 Mini FFG was introduced in 1977, followed by the EMBA Jumbo FFG series (360, 400 and 450) in 1978, the EMBA160 in 1983 and the EMBA 290 in 1985. Only two years later, it was already time for a new flagship, the EMBA 244, introducing still faster set-up times, exceptional print qual-ity and greater productivqual-ity. The company’s success had not gone unnoticed, and Berg Industries AB acquired Sund Emba AB in 1988, contributing whole new areas of expertise.

Since then, EMBA Machinery has de-veloped rapidly, opening subsidiaries in the USA, Germany and Italy and producing a steady stream of technological innovations. These range from RDD (Real Direct Drive)

servo technology and Magna VSC (Vacuum Slotting Creasing) to Non-Crush Convert-ing™ vacuum transfer, developments which have transformed the corrugated board industry. Niclas Berg, President of EMBA Machinery AB.

Customer driven

development

During four decades of machine develop-ment EMBA has always been faithful to the core design values that have become our trade mark. The quick-set capability and transport of the sheets with vacuum are important factors contributing to improved productivity and operational excellence.

Development is also a question about adapting to the continuously changing environment with new challenges to our industry. It is difficult to believe that any-body could anticipate back in 1968 that we would have the oil and energy prices of today that seem to be here to stay. That fact and our increasing awarness of the impact we have on our environment is bringing new challenges to our industry and to our development work. Our customers are asking us to adapt to these circumstances and develop products that minimise the environmental impact and contribute to operational excellence.

Our response is the 245 QS Ultima™ that features all the design innovations developed over four decades and comple-mented now with features contributing to lower energy consumption and paper utilisation. This new inline machine is designed for non-crush converting with vacuum transport of the sheets from the infeed unit all the way to the stacker. The industry norm to calculate with 15% ECT loss during converting is now eliminated. The bottom line will be reduction in paper costs in box converting and optimisation in design of corrugated boxes.

When I look back to the achievements over the past 40 years by EMBA I am pleased to recognise that the evolution from the pioneering innovation with the 240 machine to today´s 245 QS Ultima™ is a result of dedicated customer driven development.

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Big investments have been made in both plants. Central to the Eichhorn investment is the purchase of five case makers from EMBA Machinery of Sweden.

“The decision was taken in 2006 that we would base our investment around EMBAs high speed, quick set machines” says Guido Hoogen, Assistant General Manager.

“We initially opted for two machines but were so impressed with what we saw, we increased the order to five”, comments Mr Eichhorn. “We have a lot of experience with many different types of case making machinery, and it was EMBA's production philosophy that we liked the most.

We also had a “wish list” that EMBA were able to fulfil.

To get our operators to support our deci-sions we arranged for the operating crews to visit EMBA in Sweden to undertake courses and get to know the machines that we were about to install.

repeat orders that that have been saved from previous production runs. The software also allows the operator to change settings on the move, as well as creating new job specifica-tions while the machine is running.

Full width vacuum transport ensures the fundamentals for “kiss-touch” printing. The vacuum transport throughout the machine also eliminates board crush, maintaining the best possible box strength.

“We opted for the EMBA machines, be-cause they give us the ability to run multiple colour work, die-cut, score, fold and seal in a single pass”, explains Mr Eichhorn.

“The fact that they are quick-set machines is also an advantage, but for us , one of the key strengths of the new Ultima Feeder is its true non crush converting technology, featuring the Ultima Feeder without feed rolls. Because we are running lighter weight papers on the corrugators now, we wanted to ensure that we weren’t crushing the board on the converting machines, which inevitably reduces BCT and ECT for the finished boxes.

We have been delighted with how well the new EMBA machines have settled into full production schedules so quickly”, concludes Mr Eichhorn.

Big investments at Carl Eichhorn

Carl Eichhorn KG operates two board plants in the middle of Germany. The

company employs 250 people. The company have for some time concentrated

their efforts on providing a “Stock and Serve” service, allowing for just in Time

deliveries to the customer base which tends to be within a 125 km radius of

each plant.

Complete range

The EMBA product range of flexo folder glu-ers consists of the models 170 QS, 245 QS and 290 QS. They all utilise vacuum transport throug the machine, and in the case of 245 QS even through the slotting unit, provid-ing full control of the sheets with extremely sharp tolerances during the converting and printing process.

New to the market, is the midsize machine now available as a complete servo driven machine – known as the EMBA 245 QS UltimaTM_.

The EMBA concept of top-printing and fixed units offers one of the quickest order changes available on the market realised through pre-mounting of printing plates and die-cutting tools while the machine is running. At the heart of the machine is the Operators Interface. All machine functions are controlled via user friendly and easy to use software that allows the operator to select

From left to right: Mr. Friedrich Weingart, Mr. Lothar Kraska, Mr. Dursun Bektas, Mr. Jan-Erik Hallor (EMBA), Mr. Andreas Busch (EMBA), Mr. Hellmuth Eichhorn, Mr. Esa Koski (EMBA).

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Growing market in the

Middle East and Asia

During the last 2-3 years EMBA has de-livered 9 new EMBA Flexo Folder Gluer machines to the Middle East and Asia and more are to be delivered later. The majority of the machines are the EMBA 170 QS but also the EMBA 245 QS has been delivered to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirate, Israel, Iran, Pakistan and Egypt. The latest installation was at Hi-Pack in Egypt and the picture shows the five operators in front of their new EMBA 170 QS equipped with 4 print units, die cutter and creasing station.

EMBA Machinery is a global

com-pany supplying machines for the

Corrugated Paper Board Industry

all over the world. Over the years we

have learnt that investments are some

times more intensive in certain parts

of the world than others. The

grow-ing economy in the Middle East and

Asia has created a great interest for

the modern technology and efficient

EMBA machines.

EMBA Machinery AB, Sweden was

given the opportunity to give a

presen-tation in the Technical session with the

Theme:

“Future Perception and

New Innovations in Machinery”

in the recently concluded 36

th

_FCBM

(Federation of Corrugated Box

Manu-facturers) Conference in Varanasi,

India (6-8 Dec). EMBA Machinery

AB was the co-sponsor for the event

along with other suppliers.

The subject of “Case Maker” was given by

the panel member Mr. Weine Widar, EMBA Sales Manager, Asia & Middle East. The presentation included a video of EMBA-170 and 245 machines in operation at Ajman (U.A.E.) and Visy Board respectively. The

FCBM Conference Theme:

Future Perceptions and

Global Perspectives.

statistics achived in those plants received applause from over 300 delegates participat-ing in the conference.

After the presentation, on behalf of the association, Mr.Harish Madan, past presi-dent of FCBM and Director of a corrugated box making plant, presented a Memento to Mr. Weine Widar of EMBA, in appre-ciation of the efforts of EMBA Machinery AB, Sweden.

With the advent of new technology and the increasing role of packaging, the Perceptions on Packaging have undergone a sea change in India. The perceptions will continue to change in the future. The prolif-eration of global brands and the mushroom-ing of malls have made the importance of packaging even more vital. The future will bring more challenges. Corrugated boxes will be increasingly used as primary packs

with colorful graphics and handling devices to attract the customer.

In a globalized marketplace the perspectives of manufacturing and marketing are fast changing.

Imported machinery and equipment is be-coming a norm not a novelty.

The response of the Indian Market since the end of 2004, when EMBA became active in this market, is very exciting. The inter-est in this event prompted Mr. Chiranjeevi Sastry, the EMBA agent in India to quote confidently “the first EMBA Machine for the Indian Market will be finalized in 2008”, which will make a good article in a

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EMBA provide knowledge

...by VPN Support Contract

EMBA is committed to continuously

improving our after sales service, and

so the EMBA Comfort Team has

recently been strengthened.

EMBA Comfort, comprising the EMBA Upgrade Programme for updating exist-ing EMBA’s with the latest technical im-provements, EMBA Original Spare Parts, EMBA Professional Technical Service and the EMBA Training Academy, is a vital aftermarket service to our customers, and

we are determined to improve and expand From left: Tomas Andersson, David Karlsson and Stefan Klingberg.

For some time customers have been

able to choose a VPN Support

Con-tract as an option when investing in

a new EMBA FFG. However, from

now on we can also offer this product

as an Aftermarket option.

It´s not the VPN in itself that is the revolu-tion, it´s what it can provide!

In order to reduce your down-time we have dedicated engineers that connect with your EMBA FFG over the internet, being able to assist and analyse the machine performance, only after customers approval, from our headquarter in Örebro.

Using the VPN Support Contract an EMBA Technician can immediately see the EMBA FFG:s Operators Interface from his own working space with all EMBA's expertise and knowledge only a step away. Unlike using a modem you KNOW that the VPN connection will work when you are

depending on it, as you can be constantly up linked and verify the status of the con-nection – meaning you are only one click away from the support!

For production optimizing the VPN-Support Contract opens up opportunities for customers to get support with troublshoot-ing, updating software & resetting.

If requested, we can also take back-up copies of the Operators Interface (your database of articles & settings) regularly for your safety. If you have a system breakdown we can easily download the latest copy, for your own protection - stored in our secure Service Contract server located in our

Headquarter in Örebro!

We can also provide a production analy-sis programme which will enable skilled EMBA technicians to analyze the customers production and suggest improvements that can be implemented. For more details please see EMBA Comfort News edition 1-2008 (if you do not already have the EMBA Comfort News – please sign up for your copy at www. emba.com)

EMBA Comfort Team strengthened

and improved

it to give an exceptional level of support.

As a result of recent changes, David Karlsson now heads the EMBA Comfort Team as Manag-er AftManag-ermarket, which includes Tomas Andersson as Service Manager and Stefan Klingberg as Manager Customer Support who oversees the sales administration and spare parts team.

EMBA machines are known for quick

set-up times and minimum

down-time. We proudly present the next step

with the introduction of our EMBA

- Production Analysis Programme.

To reduce down-time even further we have developed a tool that will help you analyse the production of your EMBA machine. Our Production Analysis Programme can be used for easy follow-up of production statistics and will give you the possibility to identify

EMBA – Production Analysis Programme

bottlenecks in your production by logging the stop codes of your choice.

This gives you an essential tool to im-prove productivity.

The EMBA - Production Analysis Pro-gramme can also be used as a key to preven-tive maintenance. Thanks to the unique statistics of logged stop codes you will have the tool to identify the causes of produc-tion down-time and use this to maintain continuous high production.

• View unique statistics for each order.

• Overview the stop codes of your choice.

• Identify the causes of production down-time.

• Overview production statistics by; - Shift - Day - Week - Month - Quarter - Year

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Shortest stop time

wins

Manncraft Corporation

On the seventh of October 2007 they ran a total of 126.039 boxes in 8,5 hours, which is 14.828/hr. Congratulations to the second shift crew and their fantastic production result.

Goddiel Torres: Supervisor Carl Ceriani: operator Frank Massanet:assistant oper. Kevin Collazo: feeder

From left Vesa Kokko - Raine Pirnes - Miika Myllykorpi. In front of the EMBA Machine.

The crew getting their plackets from

Vice President Sales & Marketing, Esa Koski.

SCA Packaging, Finland, Century Club member.

SCA Tampere is one of the first

com-panies to adopt an EMBA Service

Contract.

After an overhaul of the machine and education of the crews in EMBA Training School we are very proud to present this addition to the EMBA Century Club.

It shows that with some hands on hard work and training you can get very good pro-ductivity even on older EMBA machines.

We once again proudly present new members of the EMBA Century Club.

The companies achieving membership criteria are Manncraft Coperation,

Tullytown PA, United States and SCA, Tampere, Finland and Smurfit

Kappa's Stalybridge Factory in UK.

It happens in Brazil

Ms. Suellen Boufleur and Mr. Roger Boufleur The R.Boufleur International RBI partners Mr.Mauricio Adami Telck, reports that

he is very satisfied with the machine and he was surprised with the easy and quick installation direct on the plant floor.

The installation ran smooth with our well qualified field technicians Mr. Anders Ericsson and Tim Eriksson, and very good support from the plant crew.

On the first days we achieved running an order with good quality and operation speed of 430 boxes/min.

During March this year the first

EMBA 170 QS model was installed

in Brazil.The installations was in

the ADAMI S.A. corrugating plant

located in the southeast of Brazil.

“This is the first EMBA 170 QS model in the Brazilian market and we foresee some more orders coming this year”, comments Roger Boufleur, the EMBA agent for this area.

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All 3 EMBA 245 QS Crews At Smurfit

Kappa’s Stalybridge Factory Join

EMBA Century Club

The EMBA 245 QS installed at

the Smurfit Kappa factory at

Staly-bridge in England has always been

very productive since its installation

in November 2005. However, the

forward thinking management at

Stalybridge were not content, and

EMBA have recently run

Productiv-ity Optimisation Programme

train-ing at Stalybridge to achieve further

progress. Also, the machine benefits

from an EMBA Service Contract,

with EMBA Technicians visiting

Stalybridge several times each year

to keep it in good condition, enabling

reliability and high performance.

The results of this are that all 3 of the highly motivated 245 crews at Stalybridge, backed up by their support services people and management, have now become members of EMBA Century Club by producing above the qualifying rate of 100,000 square feet of cor-rugated board converted per machine hour

during their shift, which equals 9,290 square metres per machine hour in metric units.

Of course, while it is excellent to achieve shifts that qualify for EMBA Century Club membership, machines should be highly productive all the time: - and the EMBA 245 QS at Stalybridge is! It is now regu-larly the best mid size flexo folder gluer in the Smurfit Kappa Group productivity statistics!

New in the EMBA Easy.Up™ Range:

Leadway™ vacuum transport systems

for flexo printers

160 and 200

“A” shift members: K. Bailey, L. Bettsworth and A. Whitehead, have achieved 2 “Century Club Shifts”. Qualifying shift 9,942 square metres per machine hour, equals 107,015 square feet per machine hour. “C” shift members: M. Harrop, M. Hill and M.

Fiveash, have achieved 2 “Century Club Shifts”. Qualifying shift 9,984 square metres per machine hour, equals 107,471 square feet per machine hour.

“B” shift members: P. Etchells, Z. Coxon and A. Watson. Qualifying shift 9,578 square metres per machine hour, equals 103,097 square feet per machine hour.

EMBA Machinery GmbH of Lübeck, Germany is now offering the range of LEADWAy™ vacuum transport systems also for flexo printers of 1.600 and 2.000 mm working width. The range of upgrades includes vacuum transports for 2 to 4 colours, sound

insula-tion, a variety of dust handling options and, if required, an increase of board height and new operator platforms. Independent of how the machine is currently set up, the modular upgrade solution will always lead to an operator friendly ‘walk-in’ solution, eliminating the old transport rolls. Like on other installations of Leadway™ vacuum

transports, after the upgrade the print-to-print register accuracy is improved significantly so that an existing piece of equipment can easily cope with today’s requirements of print quality.

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Frank J. Smithhisler has been appointed General Manager at EMBA Machinery, Inc., Avon, Ohio, USA.

Anders E. Berg remains President of the company. Frank was General Manager in his previos position and he started with EMBA last February.

We welcome Frank to the EMBA Group!

SuperCorrExpo

SuperCorrExpo is the largest trade show

in the Western hemisphere

catering for the corrugated industry.

The Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA will host SuperCorrExpo 2008 in September 22-26.

The specific focus on the corrugated industry attracts the most influential people from around the world. Here you will meet all from owners and presidents to operators and maintenance technicians. Every converter who wants to stay on the leading edge of the corrugated industry should attend.

Come and see us in our booth # 2420, where we will of course introduce you to our new and patented Non-Crush Converting TM_technology.

Will you be there? We will!

New General

Manager in

USA

President Anders E. Berg and General Manger Frank J. Smithhisler.

During January 29th to February 1st 2008 EMBA Machinery participated with a booth at the 14th Packaging & Printing Exhibition in Teheran.

Exhibition

in Tehran

Pack Karton

Fair in

Moscow

The EMBA Upgrade Program is now also available for McKinley machines For additional details and machine ap-plications, please look for information on our web-site: www.emba.com

Head office – EMBA Machinery AB • P.O. Box 2067, SE-700 02 Örebro, Sweden • Tel +46 19 300500 • Fax +46 19 311374 Austria – EMBA Machinery • Rennweg 77, AT-2345 Brunn am Gebirge bei Wien • Tel +43 2236 36544 • Fax +43 2236 36546

China – EMBA Machinery • A29, Room B337, No. 14, Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020 • Tel +86 10 60240167 • Fax +86 10 60240163 Germany – EMBA Machinery GmbH • Postfach 160228, DE - 23519 Lubeck • Tel +49 451 619920 • Fax +49 451 692080

Great Britain – EMBA Machinery • Goodyear Business Park, New Street, Mawdesley, Lancashire L40 2PQ • Tel +44 1704 822311 • Fax +44 1704 822611 Italy – EMBA Machinery S.r.l. • Via Padova 282, IT-20132 Milano • Tel +39 02 26306408 • Fax +39 02 27208679

USA – EMBA Machinery, Inc. • McKinley Machinery, Inc. • 1265 Lear Industrial Parkway, Avon, OH 44011 • Tel +1 440-937-6300 • Fax +1 440-937-3105 Vietnam – EMBA Machinery • Swedish Trade Council • 8A/11 D1 Thai Van Lung Street, District 1, HCM City. • Tel: +84 8 824 3634 • Fax: +84 8 824 3633