PECHINEY CEBAL DIVISION SELECTS BST Premius DEFECT DETECTION SYSTEMS

The Cebal Americas Division of Pechiney Plastic Packaging has selected BST Premius as the defect detection system of choice for their manufacturing facility in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

Cebal is a leading US and global supplier of tubes for health, personal care and beauty products.

The company began analysis of defect detection technology last year, which included installation of a BST Premius inspection and defect detection system. In addition to automatic print defect detection, the system performs automatic color monitoring and automatic bar code verification. It was evaluated for performance, reliabililty, effectiveness at identifying various print defects, ease of use and overall impact on productivity.

Reid Rucker, Lead Press Operator, played an integral part in the evaluation of the system and its performance. "Premius fits our needs very well. It does a consistently reliable job identifying print defects and is a great product to use. The color monitoring function is exceptional, alerting us when color has shifted even slightly and allowing corrective action on the fly. It has made consistent repeatable color very easy to acheive. We also ran a series of tests on the bar code verification function and found that it performs beyond our expectations"

Bill Zebick, Operations Manager in Shelbyville stated, "I take my hat off to BST Pro Mark®. They have worked closely with us on this project and have delivered a product that produces results. They are a super company to work with."

Two more units for Shelbyville have been ordered from BST Pro Mark®, as well as an initial system for the Cebal facility in New Jersey.

Cebal is a division of Pechiney Plastic Packaging, a leading supplier of converted products, with 1900 employees in North America and 2001 annual sales of $200 million. Pechiney operates 320 manufacturing in 50 countries, and had 2001 annual sales of $9.8 billion.

BST Pro Mark® is the worlds' largest manufacturer of web inspection systems, with over 10,000 system installed in 65 countries worldwide. The company is a division of BST GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Electro-Mechanik GmbH and member of Elexis AG, a German conglomerate traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the share-index number 508500.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
John D. Thome
BST Pro Mark®
650 W. Grand Avenue, Suite 301
Elmhurst, Illinois 60126
E mail: jthome@bstpromark.com
Telephone: 630.833.9900
Fax: 630.833.9909
www.bstpromark.com

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