In early 2025, a packaging printing company in Bangkok, Thailand, was rushing to complete an urgent order for an international cosmetics brand.
The client demanded premium finishing effects:
- Metallic cold foil effect
- Luxury cosmetic packaging finishing
- Inline cold foil printing for offset press
- High-speed cold foil stamping machine
- UV cold foil application on paper box
However, their traditional hot stamping process was too slow, unstable, and highly dependent on manual labor.
Then disaster struck.
Just one week before delivery, their European equipment supplier suddenly informed them:
“Critical machine parts will require another 45 days.”
The entire factory fell into panic.
The owner, Anucha, sat alone in the workshop at 2 AM, staring at stacks of unfinished orders.
If delivery failed, they would not only lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, but also risk losing a three-year partnership with a global beauty brand.
That night, he searched on Google:
- cold foil machine for Heidelberg
- inline cold foil unit supplier China
- automatic cold foil system for offset printing
- cold foil solution for packaging printing
That was the first time he discovered TianXi Cold Foil Unit.
At first, he did not trust it.
For years, he had experienced suppliers who only focused on quotations but offered no real technical support.
What surprised him most was that TianXi did not discuss price first.
Instead, TianXi engineers immediately analyzed his production line overnight.
Their factory used:
- Heidelberg offset printing press
- UV coating line
- Automatic sheet feeding system
Our engineering team quickly provided a complete inline cold foil solution:
- Compatible with Heidelberg / KBA / Manroland
- Inline cold foil production
- Stable tension control system
- High-speed web foil feeding
- Support for 90–350gsm paper
We recommended:
- CFA-1020 Cold Foil Unit
- 9.75kw industrial production power
- 800–4000 pages/hour production speed
Later, Anucha recalled:
“It was the first time a Chinese manufacturer understood our machines better than we did.”
The most dramatic moment came on installation day.
Heavy storms across Thailand delayed the delivery truck on the highway.
Meanwhile, the customer audit was scheduled for the next morning.
Our Chinese engineers stayed online throughout the night, remotely guiding the installation team.
At 4 AM, the first successful inline test finally started.
When the first sheet with a mirror-like silver cold foil effect came out smoothly, the entire workshop suddenly became silent.
Then everyone burst into applause.
In the end:
- The order was delivered 2 days ahead of schedule
- Production efficiency increased by 37%
- Material waste decreased by 22%
- The client signed a long-term cooperation agreement for the following year
Six months later, Anucha purchased another TianXi CFA-1050 Cold Foil Unit.
He said:
“TianXi didn’t just sell us a machine. They gave our factory a second chance.”
Today, their company has become one of the fastest-growing premium packaging printers in Thailand.