China-based Forest Packaging is certainly using digital to change its business model. This packaging and printing company, with annual sales of 2 RMB 2 bn (€250m) is undergoing tremendous changes.
In the past, orders were large with basic print. However, in recent years, due to consumer preferences, market competition, environmental protection and many other reasons, large orders have become fewer, being replaced by small and medium, multi-batch orders.
The packaging producer has turned to Hanway for digital printing solutions to meet these medium and small orders effectively. They have installed several single pass printing machines and one multi-pass high-speed digital printer. These machines are printing various orders such as fruit and vegetable boxes, food boxes, pizza boxes, electronic product packaging boxes, displays and much more.
But these high numbers of small orders has created some production pressures for Forest. As a result, Hanway and Forest have launched an e-commerce platform called ‘Online ordering’ which runs with an integrated MES solution. The combination of direct placement of orders and integrated MES is helping Forest solve many problems in production management.
