ROCKWALL, TX—Lollicup USA Inc, a fast-growing premier beverage and disposable goods supplier and manufacturer for the food service industry, has inked a contract for the newest generation Koenig & Bauer-Flexotecnica EVO XG press. The manufacturer has quickly expanded to encompass five locations including its current headquarters in Chino, CA, and its new 660,000 sq. ft. production and manufacturing plant in Rockwall, TX, which is currently being built outside of Dallas. It is this new facility that will operate the new Koenig & Bauer-Flexotecnica EVO XG press.
“Our customer base here in the U.S. has quickly expanded in the past five years and we’re seeing special attention on orders for eco-friendly products,” says Alan Yu, CEO of Lollicup USA. “Since I have experience seeing the industry from different vantage points, it allows me to easily solve customer challenges. I like to personally work with customers on a daily basis and use my knowledge to help them grow and succeed in this competitive market.”
“We’re definitely working on purchasing the best new technology to help better serve our customers,” says Marvin Cheng, Lollicup’s CFO. “We want to stay ahead of market trends while quickly and efficiently serving our customers with better shipping and more manufacturing. This means finding new forms of innovative technology to help us with this demand. Our market is requiring changes to our printing services, asking up to be more accessible and, from our perspective, we need equipment that provides high quality, efficiency, fast turnaround, and is easy to maintain.”
It was that endeavor that led Lollicup management to decide to purchase its first in-house flexo press. After researching the available models in the market, management chose the newest generation Koenig & Bauer-Flexotecnica EVO-XG press for its new Rockwall, TX facility.
“We had been thinking about purchasing our own printing press for a long period of time,” says Jason Lee, Lollicup USA’s assistant plant manager. “We decided to move forward when we started building our new plant in Texas. We chose Koenig & Bauer-Flexotecnica due to its superb printing capabilities, which will provide our customers with the quality and turnaround that they demand. We also believe that it will be a great addition to help us fill custom print orders. We forecast a 60 percent increase in our printing capabilities. We were quite impressed with the service and support that we received from Koenig & Bauer Flexotecnica and we’re pleased that its headquarters is local to our new plant.”
With the extraordinary demand of orders being placed, Lollicup feels that the EVO XG will reduce turnaround time printing its paper cups. This model is designed to be user friendly with the highest level of automation.
“This will be the key workhorse for our facility producing paper cups,” says Lee. “It gives us the ability to have in-house printing of our paper cups. In addition, we plan to run new specialty substrates in the future and expand our printing capabilities to the packaging board market.”
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