The press uses HP A30 true water-based inks. The HP PageWide T1190 digital pre-print press is a six-color (CMYK+OV) inkjet press with a 2.8m web width that efficiently aligns with corrugator capacity and provides offset print quality, unmatched digital speed, economy, and flexibility. ‘With our continued investment and network of operations in 30 US states, we have unparalleled digital print capacity with a national printing footprint to provide efficiency and redundancy that can fundamentally transform brands’ corrugated supply chain across North America.’Ĭarles Farre, vice president and general manager, HP PageWide Industrial, commented, ‘Georgia-Pacific’s continued investment in digital print positions Hummingbird will enhance brands’ supply chain efficiency with easier inventory management and quick turnaround.’ Robert Seay, vice president, digital print solutions at Georgia-Pacific, said, ‘Our brand and trade converting partners can now reduce their printed packaging inventory levels, shorten turnaround time, make frequent design changes and offer more graphic versions.

The new press will be installed later this year at a new Hummingbird site opening in Arizona. The HP PageWide T1190 will be the converter’s third inkjet web press installed since 2015, when it launched digital print services with the HP T400S and subsequently added an HP T1100. Hummingbird is the only packaging supplier in North America to offer 110in-wide web-fed digital inkjet printing Its digital offerings include corrugated shelf-ready packaging (SRP), food trays, large format boxes, e-commerce options, and volume displays (POP). Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are manufacturers and marketers of a variety of fibre-based products, nonwoven fabrics, building products and related chemicals. Georgia-Pacific’s Hummingbird operation provides a range of digitally printed corrugated packaging for consumer packaged goods (CPG), electronics, and food and beverage brands across North America. It serves customers in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, and Alabama, and even as far away as southern Illinois, western Arkansas, Missouri, eastern North Carolina and South Carolina.Georgia-Pacific has acquired a 2.8m-wide (110in) HP PageWide T1190 digital corrugated press, which will be used to increase the digital print capacity at Hummingbird. The Lebanon plant employs 75 people and was built and started up by Georgia-Pacific in 1993. Rich Fry, the Lebanon plant’s director of operations, added, “Our team works every day to make quality products and deliver for our customers, and we are excited for the investment in this state-of-the-art machine to continue that work.” The planned startup of the new unit will be sometime in the first half of 2024. The project will be conducted in phases through 2023 while the existing corrugator continues to operate. “This new technologically advanced corrugator will give us the ability to supply the independent and integrated box and display customers throughout the mid-South, with upgraded offerings such as two-sided high-quality print, including Georgia-Pacific’s Hummingbird® digital print, on a variety of fluting options for the converted board.” “This is as much an investment in our current and future customers as it is in our Lebanon operations,” said Rob Streeter, Georgia-Pacific’s area general manager.

Its existing corrugator will be replaced with a new one to provide the plant with more throughput and provide customers with a better-quality product. Georgia-Pacific is making a significant investment of more than $20 million at its plant in Lebanon, Tennessee. Lebanon, Tennessee – Investing in our customers and communities.

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