The French printing house LEst Républicain is investing in the future. And a brand new press hall is being built in Houdemont, near Nancy, to accommodate a Commander press line from Koenig & Bauer. It has been earmarked to replace two older Miller-Nohab presses.
Leading UK converter of high-quality labels and shrink sleeves, Berkshire Labels, has installed the first 17 (430mm) Mark Andy Performance Series P9E at its manufacturing facility in Hungerford, some 100km west of London. The P9E is the latest model in Mark Andys range of Performance Series flexo presses and is designed for specialist film applications as well as traditional label converting. It joins a 17 Mark Andy P7 installed in 2017 and three other 13 Mark Andy presses at Hungerford.
For 20 years now, Note Printing Australia (NPA), as a close partner of KBA-NotaSys, has been using one of its security presses to produce not only banknotes, but also the inner pages of passports. To date, they have been printed in a combination of conventional and waterless offset. With the desire for greater design freedom and the ability to test new ideas on short-turnaround times, the company has switched to an exclusively wet offset process with a half-format sheetfed offset press. The project was completed right on schedule and to the full satisfaction of the customer.
Packagings account for around 25 percent of all printed products. At the same time, the packaging market is the strongest growing market segment with around 3 percent on average. The most important region is AsiaPacific with an annual growth rate of 4.6 percent.
By way of an extensive electrical retrofit, the Spanish company Calprint S.L. has brought its two Comet presses from Koenig & Bauer into line with the latest state of the art. It was important for us that production on the presses would not be interrupted by the retrofit work. And this was also achieved thanks to the fast, professional and competent handling by Koenig & Bauer, says Maximiliano Miguel, technical director at Calprint S.L.
BOBST announced the launch of a brand-new CI flexo press. The VISION CI is designed to deliver the most efficient performance for all production lengths on a wide range of substrates.
Nilpeter AS reports a successful Labelexpo Europe 2019, headlined by the introduction of new solutions, the finalization of many on-going projects, and the initiation of several new and exciting projects.
