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ROTOCONTROL received 18
machine orders at Labelexpo
LABELS&LABELING
market. The machine was and still is one of the workhorses of
our production facility and we ordered a further DTD250 in the
summer of 2011.’
Mark Laurence, sales manager at Daco Solutions, said:
‘Ronen has been a long-standing customer of ours and has
grown his business successfully over the last eight years utilizing
Daco equipment. I can remember the initial conversation
with him where he was worried about technical support with
being so far away; it is something we laugh about now: he
reminds me that he has never bought one spare part from us or
had the need for a service call in eight years.’
DCM Usimeca displayed a non-stop sleeve seaming machine
and a quality control machine, alongside a Serval narrow
web slitter rewinder and a sleeve perforating and sheeting
machine, SleeveCut.
Delta Industrial ran live demonstrations of an integrated web
converting and packaging line. The system showed a variety of
processes such as island placement, tight tolerance die-cutting,
vision inspection and heat seal pouching. The Delta Mod-Tech
can incorporate many additional features, allowing the user to
create a custom manufacturing and/or packaging system.
Emis showed its Flexor line of inspection slitters, rewinders
and die-cutting machines. Flexor STACRW4-12 is a fully servo
four spindle turret rewinder with a width of 410mm. Flexor
440IS is a 440mm wide inspection machine equipped with the
latest Nikka D1 camera system. Flexor 380 2C+ is a 380mm
wide machine equipped with a double die-cutting unit and a
re-register module to die cut pre-printed labelstock. Flexor Lexjet
350 is an industrial inkjet machine for printing low volume
jobs or variable data, equipped with the latest Konica Minolta
KM1024 heads and GEW UV curing.
Emmendinger Maschinenbau (EMB) showed its high speed
punching and embossing machine. The company said the machine
is being used by customers in the packaging, dairy and
beverage industries. It punches small shapes out of unprinted
and printed aluminum, paper and plastic foils directly from
reels, which may then be used as sealing lids or labels. Applications
include sealing lids for yoghurt and pro-biotic drinks
and beer bottle neck labels. The machine brings capabilities
for embossing, perforating, pin-perforating and doming, and
quick changeovers between tools enable easy handling and
increased production. The company has developed a shredder,
which can be optionally added to the machine, for crushing
waste foil into small pieces, allowing for easier suction and collection
of the waste.
Errepi demonstrated its automatic cores cutter machine, Vittoria,
suitable for plastic or cardboard cores of various diameters
and lengths; and its Leonardo 350mm automatic non-stop
turret rewinder. The company launched a flexo printing unit,
Flexoturbo, which was shown on a 2-color modular machine.
ETI Converting Equipment introduced its emulsion acrylic
Cohesio technology, which brings label printers the flexibility of
emulsion and solvent acrylic adhesives, as well as hot melt and
UV hot melt adhesives, in one Cohesio multifunctional inline
coating and printing system. The self-computerized multifunctional
printing and coating equipment provides users with the
benefits and cost savings of converting pressure sensitive material
and/or printing pressure sensitive labels all in one pass.
The company also showed the new Miniliner, an ultra-thin
clear PET or BOPP liner of 12 microns which is said to substantially
reduce waste and increase productivity. The Miniliner can
be die-cut at speeds up to 150 meters a minute and is adaptable
to ETI`s Cohesio technologies.
ETI promoted the linerless capabilities of its Cohesio printing
and converting equipment that can reach speeds of 150m/min.
Linerless technology brings converters direct monetary savings,
allows for simple front and back printing, and is a more
sustainable option for pressure sensitive label decoration since
more labels fit per roll, reducing transportation emissions, and
there is no liner waste to be disposed of.
Graficon Maschinenbau showed the new Graficon RPS 220
booklet and processing machine, demonstrating the inline production
of booklet labels. A new feature on the machine is the
merging of three different pre-printed materials in register. Also
on display was the sheeting machine, Graficon BSM 340, for
processing from roll to sheet, with new options and extension
possibilities such as intermediate cut, waste shift and stacking
options.
Grafisk Maskinfabrik showed its new Digital Converting Line
500 (DC500), which can handle web widths from 100mm up to
515mm. The die-cut station is fitted with optional GapMaster by
Kocher+Beck. The DC500 comes with UV flexo-varnish station
with registration and super-gloss varnish capabilities. It is also
fitted with the optional semi-rotary hot foil station with GapMaster
that will be demonstrating high quality gold- and silver-printing
during the show. GM will also be running various jobs on
its smaller digital converters, the DC330, fitted with Zenna laser
die-cutter, and the DC330-mini. The entire range of GM digital
converters as well as other finishing machinery – re-/unwinders,
core cutters, roll lifters/turners, sheeters and waste management
machines – were available for testing at the show.
Grafotronic launched its 440HI slitting machine with a 100
percent inspection system from Nikka. The 440HI is a highspeed
fully servo-driven machine with new features such as an