Arkay Packaging of Roanoke, VA recently signed for a new Heidelberg Primefire 106 – the second installation site in the US. The 7-color industrial inkjet 40 B1 size digital press will secure Arkays position as a technology leader in the luxury packaging market.
Zircon Technologies, a leading label and packaging converter located in India, continues to add premiere flexographic, converting and finishing equipment to their existing portfolio of state-of-the-art presses and facilities.
Since the merger one year ago, manroland Goss customers have profited from the know-how built up over decades by the two largest Web Offset Printing experts worldwide. Even more efficient Anti-Aging solutions for Web Offset printing presses, independent of manufacturer, as well as modular configuration possibilities for the High-Performance e:line newspaper printing systems or increased performance capabilities through automation: indeed the tailored solution concepts for newspaper printing and modern publishing houses are ensuring the customers printing systems have their finger on the pulse of the times.
Based in Casablanca Morocco, Imprimerie Ideale have chosen Edale as their preferred machinery supplier for a second time, this follows on from their initial purchase of an 8 colour Edale FL5 with Flatbed die cutter.
Labels give products their unique identity and boost the impulse to buy at the point of sale. The label market combines a share of some five percent of the worldwide print volume of around EUR 400 billion with great growth potential. This is why Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) decided to present its extensive portfolio around label production at not one, but two events in September.
Tosho Printing in Kawagoe near Tokyo has been the proud owner of two Rapida 106 presses for four years now. One of those presses, a five-colour configuration with LED-UV drying, recently set a new record for the number of job changes in a single shift. Over the course of 11.5 hours, 130 jobs were printed with an average run length of 270 sheets. That is equivalent to over 11 jobs per hour. This outstanding achievement earned a special commendation for the companys press operators from Koenig & Bauer.
Nilpeters agent in South Africa, CSM Machine Sales PTY Ltd, recently assisted long-time partner Uniprint, now First Impression, with a comprehensive company relocation to their new Hirt & Carter site at the Cornubia Industrial Business Estate in Durban, South Africa. The finishing touch was the installation of a new 17 Nilpeter FA-Line press.
