Forward Thinking in a Challenging Business Environment

To maximize efficiencies and address the labor shortages, Empire is currently researching and developing the use of robotics to eliminate the repetitive motions and material handling that still exists within a sheet-fed production cell. Removing the conveyance on the job puts employees in positions to look at the entire process adding critical thinking and quality improvements to the process.

Roll-to-roll screen printing

LED also pioneered the development of Empire’s roll-to-roll screen printing value stream. Roll-to-roll output, typically associated with flexo or offset printing, aligns this Lean process with the durability of screen printing. This process is less labor intensive, and multiple colors can be completed in one-piece flow. A print job that would take a month or two on single-color sheet-fed equipment can now be completed in two to three hours.