Samyang Prowell Completes Wonju Plant Construction... Producing 170,000 Ramen Boxes Daily

Samyang Prowell Wonju Plant Exterior View

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Samyang Pruwell, which supplies corrugated cardboard boxes to Samyang Foods, announced on the 1st that it has completed the Wonju factory.

Since November last year, Samyang Pruwell invested a total of 22.9 billion KRW to build a new factory with a total floor area of 12,937㎡, replacing the existing factory completely. The new factory is a two-story building above ground with one basement floor.

The main production process of corrugated cardboard boxes involves making shock-absorbing corrugated cardboard sheets (base paper) used for product packaging by utilizing various raw papers supplied from paper mills, followed by printing various designs on the corrugated cardboard sheets with ink using a printing machine.

Accordingly, Samyang Pruwell newly installed a corrugator, a production facility for corrugated cardboard sheets, at the Wonju factory. In addition, to innovate quality and maximize productivity, they introduced a flexographic printing machine from Mitsubishi, a globally recognized Japanese company. The production capacity of the new factory is 1.5 times that of the existing factory, capable of producing 170,000 ramen boxes per day.

Furthermore, to improve working conditions and safety for workers, they established an automated process by installing an automatic sheet transfer conveyor, automatic sheet feeder (pre-feeder), automatic finished product bundler, automatic finished product stacking robot (palletizer), and automatic finished product wrap packer.

Through the establishment of an 'Integrated Production Management System,' a more systematic and convenient production environment was created from raw material receipt to final product manufacturing. Additionally, they installed a dust filtration and collection system (bag filter) to filter dust generated during the corrugated cardboard manufacturing process and a waste paper compactor to facilitate recycling of waste paper.

A representative of Samyang Pruwell stated, "With the completion of the Wonju factory, we have become the largest corrugated cardboard company in the Gangwon region. We plan to significantly increase external order production through high-quality box production using advanced production facilities."

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