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Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! With a slogan like “Restless since 1851” it’s no surprise that Linney in Mansfield, UK has installed the first Highcon Beam 2 digital cutting and creasing machine in the UK, trained their staff and already ramped up production even during an exceptionally challenging year for all companies. Covid-19 has dramatically changed the way everything is done these days and for Linney, their agility aligned perfectly with Highcon’s agile production promise. The Highcon Beam 2 digital cutting and creas...

Packaging World: You’ve gone from producing prototypes to now producing both prototypes and modest commercial runs. How has that gone? Any surprises? Monty Patterson: Overall, it’s gone well. The pandemic set us back a bit, especially when some customers furloughed or reassigned employees who were our main contacts. Other customers found themselves so focused on just trying to maintain the status quo that they more or less postponed exploring new technologies for printing and finishing their packaging materials. Not to mention that face-to-face meetings with customers became almost impos...