August 5, 2016
JB Machinery has donated a KleenPlate system to ICPF that will be installed on the Workhorse press at Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) this summer. ICPF and the Glynn Wilson family earlier provided the Workhorse press to FVTC in 1999, where it has been used almost daily for student instruction since installation.
The KleenPlate equipment and installation, valued at $55,000, will enable significant increases in machine uptime and productivity through continuous printing break to break, with virtually zero production stoppages for plate washing. The system additionally will offer significant improvement in print quality through minimized—if not eliminated—hickeys, plugging, bridging, and/or color variation.
In making the donation to ICPF, JB Machinery President John Bird said, “ICPF’s partnerships and ongoing work with over 25 colleges and universities are impressive. We are proud to have earlier donated dryers for the presses that ICPF has placed at Fox Valley and Clemson University. We hope the KleenPlate system will further support the work being conducted by ICPF.”
Steve Landaal, ICPF Chair, thanked John and JB Machinery for their contribution: “We encourage other industry suppliers and corrugated manufacturers to continue to make donations to ICPF, like JB Machinery and so many other companies have done.” Visit www.careersincorrugated.org and www.jbmachinery.com for more information.
Richard Flaherty is president of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation.
