Presses
Export Week
Export Week covers the packing, documentation, and dispatch pressure points that surface when presses and parts move across borders.
How Export Week supports export-ready production
Export Week deals with what happens when presses or parts must move across borders. It covers packing, documentation, and dispatch planning so equipment arrives ready for installation without avoidable hold-ups.
Export consignments start with the machine details that affect crating and documents. Press width, unwind and rewind layout, drying system, voltage, and the substrates you run all change the packing list and dispatch method. For moves through Johannesburg, Durban, or Cape Town, we also account for port handling, road freight limits, and the receiving plant's unloading setup.
Photographs taken before strip-down help the receiving team rebuild guards, shafts, and cable runs correctly. Include views of the control side, ink train, web path, and any add-on units packed separately. Those records are useful when the press lands on site and installation checks begin against the exported configuration.
Export dispatch preparation
Export Week focuses on the paperwork and physical checks that sit between a sold press and a working installation. The output is a clear dispatch record covering machine configuration, packed accessories, key documents, and site requirements at the destination. That keeps the export file tied to the actual press, not a generic equipment description.
Use Export Week when a press, print unit, or spare set must cross a border and arrive matched to the buyer's production plan. Confirm crate markings, serial references, manuals, and electrical information before freight is booked from Durban or inland depots.
- Crate list matched to press configuration
- Photo record before dismantling starts
- Destination documents checked against serials
Border movement checks
Cross-border jobs need more than a machine spec sheet. We check lifting points, packed dimensions, container or flat-rack fit, and whether the receiving site has forklifts, riggers, or a crane booking in place. For equipment leaving South Africa, document accuracy matters as much as the press condition.
Coastal storage can change how metal parts should be wrapped before dispatch. Inland dust and rougher road sections make sensor protection, roller restraint, and sealed electrical cabinets worth checking before loading. Power standards at the destination should also be compared with the press requirements before installation planning is signed off.
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Information to gather early
Use Export Week for packaging work aimed at cross-border supply, where press options, substrates and pack consistency matter.
Keep the export file current while the machine layout, accessories, and buyer details still match the final sale. Record any removed modules, spare rollers, anilox sets, print cylinders, and guarding that will ship in separate crates. When customs or the receiving plant asks for verification, that file should match the packed goods exactly.
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