Offset Printing
TQL Packaging Solutions Installs Rotoflex VLI 700
Tuesday 24. November 2020 - In 1995, current President Scott Smith founded Total Quality Labels as a startup on a shoestring budget with himself as the sole employee. However, his focus on helping customers put the best product forward allowed him to quickly grow in the pressure sensitive market.
The VLI directly supports the companys expansion into packaging. For over two decades, Dallas-based company TQL Packaging Solutions has maintained a commitment to customer satisfaction through superior quality labeling products.
TQL is the type of company who can understand the big picture, investing in the right technology and even change their own branding to respond to the new market, as they did this year by changing the companys name from Total Quality Labels to TQL Packaging Solutions.
The converter is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2020, now as a full complement print service provider, offering digital and flexo technologies for conventional labels all the way up to complex packaging applications like pouches, shrink sleeves, and extended-content labels.
Despite the economic pressures of the pandemic, TQL Packaging Solutions is poised for 20% growth over 2019.This growth pushed the converter to purchase and install a Rotoflex VLI 700.
The VLI is a premier 28.5-inch-wide inspection, slitting and rewind system that complements advanced applications and high-volume production. Rotoflex VLI is a necessary workflow addition for finishing film labels and wraps, flexible packaging and excels at handling tension-sensitive materials. The machine can be configured to meet a full range of applications and substrates.
Before choosing the machine, company leadership closely evaluated Rotoflex alongside with other solutions in the market, and the speed of VLI was the deciding factor. “We needed enough speed to keep up with our newly acquired 26-inch flexo press, which was installed over the summer,” says Smith.
According to Smith, his VLI runs two daily shifts at an average of 1,000 fpm. Upon install, TQL Packaging Solutions had 3 million linear feet ready for the machine to slit, and Smith estimates that the machine was able to slit 20 million feet in the first weeks, “which is far better than I could have imagined,” he adds.