After the successful installation of a GIDUE M5 servo press at Imprimerie Harani, GIDUE is proud to announce that a new GIDUE press has been sold to the Algerian converter Concept Emballage.
Growing print company MPC Solutions invested in new technology at Heidelberg’s 20/20 Vision Open House last week. The £3.5m turnover Barnet-based company has historically bought second-hand but this time round it has signed a deal on a highly specified new Speedmaster XL 75. The new press proved more cost-effective than the second-hand options, saving the company money and offering the potential to boost profits.
KBA North America announces that Flex Essentials, Inc. is its new sales agent for the Flexotecnica line of CI Flexo presses in the Canadian market. Headed up by industry veteran, Jim Waslowski, Flex Essentials, Inc. is a leading manufacturers’ representative for several companies offering equipment and supplies to the flexographic market with extensive experience in flexible packaging.
Guests of honour Martin Schröder and André Kuipers arrived to the event celebrating the official inauguration of the new large-format press on board a specially made helicopter from Holbox (2)A yellow helicopter with a green frog on its tail flies across a clear blue sky before landing at packaging producer Holbox in Echt, a city in the south of the Netherlands. Dutch astronaut André Kuipers and aviation idol Martin Schröder both climb out. They are the guests of honour at Holbox to officially inaugurate the first KBA Rapida 164 with double coater in Europe, some nine months after this large press series was launched.
SLPP Ltd t/a Links Labels & Tapes have recently installed their second GIDUE Press. Based in Bourne, Lincolnshire SLPP has a history dating back to 1972 through a merger and several acquisitions. The business is privately owned by Reg Rudd and David Egan and has three other directors namely Darren Warman, David Shales and Darren Dutton.
Bruehlsche Universitaetsdruckerei in Giessen (Germany) and Severotisk in Usti (Czech Republic) get latest control console technology from manroland web systems
Flexo Concepts announced today that Nilpeter is now shipping all new FB Series press installations worldwide with the TruPoint Orange doctor blade. The prominent narrow web press manufacturer has replaced steel with Orange due to its superior metering performance and ability to eliminate UV ink spitting.
