Group Finland:

Anna Belik, Rami Huttunen, Maria Juusela,

Milla Kaukonummi, Bella Kayumova, Heidi Westerlund

Project work on industrial visitsIris Printing SAForlabels

Structure

Iris Printing SA

Founded 1991

2 shareholders:

Lambrakis Press SA

Pegasus Publishing SA

25 % of the market

Forlabels Founded 1986

2 owners (brothers)

40 employees

Machinery and equipments

Iris Printing SA

2 x Roland 700 (sheet-fed / web)

3 x KBA SP 102-E

Billhofer gula-speed partiomatUV-coating equipment

Folding

Bobst Folding (for boxes)

2 x Shredder (with container)

Forlabels UV-machine (old) 2 x flexo printing machine HP Indigo

Digicon for postpress (trimming, coating, foiling) Web to web trimming

Machinery and equipments

Machinery and equipments

Machinery and equipments

Machinery and equipments

Building and rooms

Iris Printing SA

Building big and old

Room for platemaking and colormanagement

Paper warehouse burned down a year ago

Forlabels 2 halls (printing room/ warehouse)

Different room for HP Indigo (airconditioned) Own rooms for sales, prepress and platemaking

Production

Iris Printing SAEmployees in:

PrepressPlatemakingColor managementPrintingPostpress

Main product:Magazines

Forlabels Employees:

4 persons in sales department 4 persons in prepress Plate making Printing Postpress

Main product:Labels

Production

Iris Printing SA ForlabelsSales

Prepress

Platemaking

Printing

Postpress

Logistics

Sales

Platemaking

Printing

Logistics

Prepress

Digital printing

Postpress

Material management, input and output of materials and final productsIris Printing SA Company was moving, so

we didn’t get right picture of their material management.

Buildings was almost empty, so we don’t know where the materials and final products were stored.

Forlabels Everything was well organized

Every job was marked with an EAN-code and stored systematically

Used printing plates was stored systematically in own packagings

Outgoing jobs

General conditions, environmetal aspectsIris Printing SA

Working conditions not very good, high temperature and smell of chemicals

Old equipment (not environmental friendly)

Effective paper recycling

Forlabels

Very clean places

Good working conditions Much empty space

Could be more selfs in warehouse

Comparisation to Finnish companies

In Finland the printing plants are usually very clean and organized

Working conditions are good

Papers are usually stored at print plants for paper manufacturers

Many printhouses has environment labels

Finnish companies also have very big and impressive lobbies