Cartoveneta purchased a Zünd Q-Line 32-32 D with BHS180. The state-of-the-art workflow is fully digital, completely automated, and engineered for maximum productivity.
Based in Scorzè near Venice, Cartoveneta APCI is a family-run packaging manufacturer that employs around 60 people. Founded in the 1960s by Bruno Michieletto, the Michieletto family has been managing the company for three generations. It has become a successful supplier of custom corrugated packaging and display solutions, from traditional shipping and pizza boxes to high-end POS/POP.
Cartoveneta’s particular strength lies in digital print for packaging. Packaging and displays are printed in small and medium runs with high quality, personalised designs, and the flexibility to meet specific customer needs.
Digital printing technology, maximum production flexibility, and a commitment to sustainability are deeply embedded in the company’s DNA. As the company began to scale digital production, downstream processes such as cutting threatened to become a bottleneck. Investing in a Q-Line with BHS180 took care of this problem, ‘With 15 production lines, we produce everything related to corrugated cardboard, from micro-flute to triple-wall, and we do so sustainably. And sustainability is a cornerstone of our company. Everything we manufacture is 100% recyclable. This makes Q-Line with BHS180 a perfect fit,’ explained Stefano Michieletto, co-owner of Cartoveneta.
Demand for digitally printed packaging and displays keeps growing. Brands want to stand out, promotions are planned on shorter notice, and variable, special-offer campaigns are becoming more common. For Cartoveneta, this translates into: many different designs and formats in corrugated cardboard, smaller batch sizes with frequent job changes, very tight tolerances for print-to-cut registration, and short lead times and competitive manufacturing costs.
With the Q-Line 32-32 D with BHS180 from Zünd, Cartoveneta has chosen a cutting system that is designed to meet these requirements perfectly. This highly automated digital cutting solution combines: high processing speed; fully automated, pallet-to-pallet material handling; QR-code-based intelligent job control; and integrated UNDERCAM registration system, developed for digitally printed packaging.
‘The Q-Line has given us the opportunity to rethink our entire workflow. It has eliminated workflow inefficiencies and is the perfect fit for our digitally driven packaging and display operations,’ said Michieletto.
Another unique selling point of the Q-Line with BHS180 is the way it handles varying batch sizes and different materials, an everyday scenario in digitally printed packaging. Job data is linked directly to each sheet or board through QR codes. The system retrieves the information and ensures that different jobs are correctly queued and automatically executed with the specified processing methods.
This allows Cartoveneta to combine different packaging types, materials, or designs in a single stack measuring up to 180cm tall and produce them automatically with consistently high quality. The Q-Line demonstrates its strengths exactly where Cartoveneta excels: in a broad portfolio of digitally printed packaging and displays that demands exceptional flexibility and short response times.
With job changes, registration processes, and material handling all digitally controlled, Cartoveneta can also run the system unattended overnight. Jobs start automatically, different orders are neatly separated and stacked, and everything is ready by morning for downstream processing.
As impressive as the hardware is, Cartoveneta believes that much of the value lies in software and file preparation: contours are optimised, cut paths shortened; repetitive tasks are automated; the entire cutting process is data-driven.
‘The first thing you notice about the Q-Line with BHS180 is its speed. But that wasn’t the only factor we considered when making our decision. Equally important to us is the software—ZCC Zünd Cut Center. The way the data is prepared and processed significantly reduces production time.’
‘The switch to automated production lines enables us to accurately calculate costs and plan production schedules with confidence. From a business perspective, that’s a major advantage. We expect a great deal from this production line. We have chosen a machine that is both powerful and future proof,’ said Michieletto.
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