Tom Ralph, Managing Director of Graph-Pak in NSW, and Charlie Scandrett, Owner of Pressnet in Queensland, have entered into a joint collaboration to distribute HPM guillotines and SLG auto-platen die-cutters throughout Australia and New Zealand. The two suppliers have known each other for some time, but only recently realised that they competed on just two of their many product lines.
“Pressnet is very engineering and service-orientated, and Tom knows the whole market, so why not cooperate?” said Charlie. Tom is equally enthusiastic about the two companies’ cooperative effort for the future. “This will allow us to jointly expand sales across Australia and New Zealand via a shared common space,” he noted. “It will undoubtedly result in a win-win situation for both our companies and, more importantly, for our customers on both sides of the Tasman.”
In 30 years of operation, Zhejiang Huayue Packing Machinery Co., Ltd. (HPM) has grown into a professional scientific and technological business organisation. Its activities have expanded into design, research, development, processing, manufacturing, and domestic and foreign sales. Around 500 of its products are exported annually to nearly 60 countries and regions including Europe and the United States.
Its main products are programmable guillotines of various specifications from 920, 1150, 1300, 1370, 1680, 1880 mm, with a 660 mm version arriving in March 2024, as well as digital display paper cutters, intelligent paper pickup machines, fully automatic paper unloaders, automatic turning machines, paper stack lifts and window patching machines suitable for packaging. Intelligent cutting CIP4 was introduced in 2017, while HPM was a global pioneer in the development of the first machine with a maximum cutting height of 210 mm.
Adhering to the philosophy ‘quality is the life of the enterprise’, this Chinese post-press manufacturing supplier offers superior machine quality, fast delivery, professional technical support and excellent after-sales service.
The constant attention to quality is guaranteed by strong control of the production process – 90% of all machinery parts are manufactured under strict quality inspection at the company’s 4,000m² facilities. HPM can provide a technician on request to support the installation in the customer’s factory, while a professional technician is on hand to maintain after-sales service, including re-setting the computer online if there’s any problem.
Pressnet is also the agent for Wan Jie intermittent offset label presses available in sizes from 330 mm wide to 450, 550, 600 and 1020 mm wide. These superbly manufactured, servo-driven machines include every finishing process a label printer could want: silk screening, hot stamping, embossing, glue removal and die cutting.
Other quality equipment in Pressnet’s lineup includes Yintech inkjet web presses from 330 mm to 660 mm. These 150 mpm solvent presses with Kyocera heads are currently dedicated to publication work, however in 2024 a joint venture with Wan Jie, will see the release of a complete suite of label-finishing units. Jinbao servo-driven silk screen presses from 800mm to 1450mm wide and Jota automated slitter-rewinders, including for cash register rolls, round out the products available from Pressnet.
Charlie Scandrett proudly points out that SLG auto-platen die cutters and HPM machines have been operating in Australia for 18 years and he expects that HPM with its strong focus on quality and support will be even more of a success story with both Pressnet and Graph-Pak backing it. “From HPM, users are not only buying a machine, but lifelong customer service,” he noted.
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HPM 130 programmable guillotine
