American Yuncheng Gravure Cylinder, Inc. engraves gravure printing cylinders for printing and packaging companies in North America.

1. American Yuncheng
Gravure Cylinder, Inc.
Top quality packaging gravure
cylinder engraving from the
world’s largest provider.

2. What is American Yuncheng Gravure
Cylinder?
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AYGC is the US subsidiary of the largest print tool making and engraving company
in the world. This massive reach gives us global buying power, driving your costs
down and expanding your access to expert solutions for even rare challenges.
Yearly Gravure Engraving
Production
Group Companies Around
the Globe
Engraving Machines
• New automated gravure facility in South Carolina —
faster precision movement with little touching of
cylinders
• Team of 20+, including domestic experts as well as
some of our top global talent. In addition, a regular
stream of corporate specialists cycle through our US
plant.
2,500,000 124 >1,100
Global Power, Local Service

3. Serving the US
Gravure Market
from the
Southeast
Located between Charlotte
and Atlanta and near the
Port of Charleston, AYGC
is poised for fast shipping
to customers and quick
resupply from both
domestic and
international suppliers.
That spells reliability and
speed for our customers.

4. Quality Engraving for Packaging
Printers
AYGC engraves cylinders for a variety of applications. When print quality
and deadlines matter, AYGC delivers.
Bottle Labels Food
Packaging
Wrapping Paper
Medical

5. 5
Gravure Services
Engraving — Accepting a variety of cylinder
types, both large and small, shafted and sleeve,
AYCG can satisfy your printing needs
Dechrome/Rechrome — Save money by
rechroming cylinders before they are damaged by
overuse
Pressroom Training — Enhance your team’s
understanding of the gravure cylinder
Press Profiling — Calibrate engraving specs so
that every cylinder is customized for your press
Cylinder Warehousing — Leave your most used
cylinders sizes at our factory and avoid waiting
for shipping. Get designs to market faster

6. Automated Plating Lines
Fully automated 88+” electroplating lines with overhead cranes for fast electroplating.
Our regular monitoring of chemical conditions ensure the consistent production of high
quality copper and chrome layers
Chrome hardness spec is 800-1,000 HV.
Statistical median, 923 HV
Five Station Copper Line High Speed Multi-station
Chrome
Add more copper as necessary to build
up cylinder circumference

7. Engraving
Engraving room equipped with Helio and
Ohio systems
• Hell Gravure Systems K5 Smart
• Upgraded Ohio Gravostar HS
Polishing
Copper polishing by Acigraf and Daetwyler
machines
• Polishmaster
• Super Perfast (plus a new model being
installed in our plant)
Chrome polishing is by Yuncheng Group
manufactured machines
• Customers like our consistent crosshatch
chrome polish

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Tools and Improvements
Automation at the
Heart
Flexibility
Yuncheng Chrome
Polisher
Cylinder Proofing
Shafted or
sleeve, Ohio or
Helio, large or small, AYGC
adapts to customer needs
and requirements
Standardized use of
Siegwerk ink at the proof
press for stable,
consistent, and repeatable
results every time
New polishing machine
produced by the Yuncheng
Group adds just the right
roughness value with a
crosshatch polish pattern
Robotic plating and
transport systems keep
jobs moving quickly
through the process

9. Manufacturing
Gravure Engraving Workflow
Our relationship starts with a free press profile to zero in on the right engraving specs for
your printing press. After we discover the optimal settings for your machine, a typical
printing job looks like the following process.
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Customer
sends an order
with artwork
Order
Customer
sends new or
obsolete bases
for job
Send Bases
AYGC performs
art inspection
and prepress
tasks
Prepress
Customer gives
final approval
on artwork
Approval
AYGC sends
cylinders via
customer’s
chosen shipper
Shipping

10. American Yuncheng Gravure Cylinder, Inc. | 150 Ian Ct., Spartanburg, SC 29306
yunchengusa.com
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For questions about
American Yuncheng
Gravure Cylinder, Inc. and
its services, please contact:
randy@yunchengusa.com
513-309-8690