Customer driven development

During four decades of machine development 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 anybody 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 complemented 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.
Esa Koski