For overseas machinery buyers, the factory acceptance test is one of the last opportunities to find a problem before the machine leaves China. Once the machine has been loaded into a container and shipped several thousand kilometres, even a small issue becomes more expensive to solve. A factory acceptance test, usually referred to as FAT, […]
“Please send me your best price.” We receive inquiries like this often. The problem is that for printing and packaging machinery, a price without a clear application usually does not mean much. A folder gluer, die cutter, foil stamping machine or corrugated machine can have several working widths, automation levels and optional configurations. Two machines […]
A two-piece folder gluer is not a machine that should be selected from speed alone. The first thing we normally ask a buyer for is a carton drawing. That one drawing often tells us more than a long list of questions, because it shows the open size, joint position, folding structure and whether the carton […]
When buyers ask us which automatic die cutting machine they should choose, machine speed is rarely the first thing we look at. We normally start with four questions: What material are you running? What is the largest sheet? What kind of finished product are you making? Do you need only die cutting, or die cutting […]
