Picture Gallery: Future technologies today at Labelexpo 2015

The show begins today. Seven halls, 571 exhibitors and 32,000 visitors who form part of the USD 80-bn global label market. In action will be flexo and fixed palate flexo printing, a combination of digital and flexo, digital with inline and offline finishing for digital print, development in linerless and LED-UV, as well as raft of label stock options

Even as you are viewing this picture, MGI would have unveiled the JetVarnish iFoil and the JetVarnish 3DW (seen in the pic). Both the kits, the company claims, will be the world’s first digital roll-to-roll print enhancement system for spot UV, 3D textures and embossed foil

New machines from Orthotec include finishing lines for wine labels, a new digital label converting machine with spot varnish and die-cut station

The humble Label has become an important consideration for packaging says David Lee of Focus Labels. Flexo presses with servo drives and digital printing features adorns the Focus stand

Amitabh Luthra of Printers Supply with Edale’s managing director James Boughton next to the Graphium Hybrid, a digital printing technology with flexo printing and finishing Edale has produced in collaboration with FFEI and Xaar.

Where is the Caslon? It’s history according to Nilpeter. In its place is a new digital flexo combine called the Panorama, a UV inkjet press with an integrated finishing line, developed with Screen. The UV inks are also supplied by Screen

Martin Automatic is showcasing the many benefits of non-stop roll change including time and resource savings with demonstrations of its popular MBS splicer and LRD rewinder. New features include an updated touch screen and the ability to run substrates from pressure sensitive label stock to flexible packaging

Really smart looking offset label printing press from Taiwan’s Labelmen International. Look out for the LDW-360S2R laser cutting machine in formats 269x227mm and 400x350mm. There are five Labelmen installations, including one at Essel Pack

IEEC is the only corona treatment equipment manufacturer at Labelexpo, and will introduce a new integrated operator console, allow operator to see the fault tripping, if any. Rohit Deshpande in the picture, says IEEC can be fitted to any flexo, convention or digital, CI flexo among others, and has around 50 installations.

The star at the Iwasaki stand will be the intermittent waterless offset printing press

Showing for the first time its mid web Optima CI press platform will be the Czech Republic company, Soma Engineering.

Diehard Dies seems to be a hit among label printers looking for dies. From 70 clients it catered during the last Labelexpo Europe, the count has more than doubled in two years. And to cater to the expanded demand, the company is investing in infrastructure, which will boost capacity

Un-leasing the power of UV and low migration ink will be Toyo Ink Arets. Hop on the evening bus to watch the company make ink on any of the four days

Rotocontrol’s Booklabel which will inspect, slit, rewind, die-cut labels

Tresu’s F10 iCon for intelligent ink control and cleaning system

The new kit from G&J is expected to do more than just expose, process, dry and finish, like the Concept 205C did last time the company showcased it a Labelexpo

Smag is celebrating its 20 years of active participation at Labelexpo with a new high speed screen station integrated on several Digital Galaxie Systems running a speeds of up to 30 m/min, large format size, flat bed technology, standard ink and frames

Maximum precision, is the theme for Wink, and it has brought the Wink Gap Control, SuperCut flexible dies and PowerCut solid dies to prove their point

The highlight of the ABG stand, the hybrid solution integrated with an ABGDigicon 3 incorporating flexo, varnishing and die-cutting modules

Behind the curtains on the stand, Omet preparing for the launch of iFlex and an ‘entry-level’ PS label press which introduces laser-assisted plate cylinder adjustment

KBA-MePrint is not running any machine, but has units of label and packaging presses. The company uses a new waterless short inking unit, which can print up to 300lpi

Maxcess kit here is Veo 600 is a video assisted moving web monitoring inspection system

The Printum stand is a show of multi web technology for endless possibilities. Powered by a Durst Tau, it is fitted with Printum offset and flexo units for producing different kinds of labels

BST’s TubeScan is a smart combination of imaging technology and the stroboscopic principle, which does not only accurately count repeats, labels and missing labels in total and per lane, but it also detects matrix residues across the entire web width. We saw TubeScan running on quite a few machines

The last time we heard someone say, do more with less was at the LMAI conference in Jaipur last July. EFI says, its Jetrion 4950LX LED-based press with finishing attachments does exactly that

Epson SurePress 4033AW is part of the many industrial label presses the company is show casing. Also see, GM’s laser cutting machine running next to the SurePress

A new version of Cheetah, Xeikon CX3 digital label press, will be available to unleash outstanding performance, says Xeikon even as it prepares to start taking orders from today. The new kit has been in pilot at five sites around the world, before it was made available to the market

A two tower four lasers die-cutting machine from SEI Laser for efficient production of labels

Domino’s new N60i digital label press is a smart modular combination of digital integrated with ABG digicon 3 incorporating flexo, varnishing and die-cutting modules

Screen’s L350UV is yet another combination press – a digital fitted with flexo and finishing option

FujiFilm debuts the Flenex FW, an advanced new water-washable flexo plate, besides showing the Acuity LED 1600 prowess for label work

Bograma’s die-cutting and finishing kit. Here the operator is loading a magnetic die-cutting tool. The Competence3 stand sees, MBO and Herzog & Heymann besides Bograma

The Comexi Nexus 20000 being readied to be run in tandem with the HP Indigo 20000 press

At the HP stand, a new avatar of the WS6800 being prepared for the rigours of the next four days

There’s lots of activities at the Prati stand. This is the company’s latest digital finishing solution for labels, though still in a prototype stage. We were trying to locate a certain Nirav Shah of Letra Grafix, who is a Prati loyalist

This is the ECS 340, Gallus’ most popular press worldwide. But the spotlight will be on the digital version of the ECS, seen in the next picture, which will see the launch at the show

This new IST MBS UV, the company says achieves a sustainable use of energy for higher curing qualities.The use of UV lamp technology as well as UV LED technology is possible

The Rotatek stand with the Brava 350 with the music playing in the background, sounded like a beautiful Spanish chillout

The Avery stand was a stunning as it has been at any Labelexpo show, with a variety of products on display

This Erhardt + Leimer web guiding system gives the correct path to webs going astray

Pantec’s Peter Frei with the company’s star product Rhino II, is an inline flatbed embossing machine, now shown with new functions that serve security industries and traditional wine and spirit markets for differentiation

While the Rotometrics stand was still being set up, we saw the shining metal, ready to entice its customers. Rotometrics certainly has got new trick up its sleeves

We caught Anuj Bhargav at the wrong time, crouching while setting up the Hasslefree kit. A Facebook picture moment, quipped Bhargav when he saw the thumbnail on the camera screen

Mark Andy’s, which claims to be the first to launch the digital with flexo, will provide a glimpse of the advancements in speed, colour, quality and flexibility, giving the press also an European debut

Lintec, the adhesive and specialty paper products company, has a net sales of USD 1725-million in 2015, an overseas sales ratio of 38.8% in 2015 third quarter. India is part of that success for Lintec

Ritrama created a buzz with the linerless technology in the last edition. It is expected to take the self-adhesive material technology further

Esko is set to showcase how to make profit with a blend of quotes in the background with the CDI Spark 2530 inline UV at the fore

Spgprint India team with Rotalen, a single-step laser process – simply engrave the desired design and rinse. Expect one to be installed in India in the near future

Though under wraps when we clicked the stand picture, Miyakoshi is expected to introduce two variants of MWL semi-rotary UV waterless offset press, which consists of only five rollers per offset unit

Amit Ahuja of Multitec with the Ecoflex VSi. Ahuja quietly whispered that the press on the show will head to Tanzania after the show. Multitec recently accounted that it had crossed the 100-mark sales of its Ecoflex lines

The Doshi family, owners of Globus, at Labelexpo 2015

Dhruv Sanon (left) and Sandeep Madan of Convertech Equipment at Labelexpo

Easton: "The new hybrid press offers flexibility to reconfigure the line for future requirements.”

A sold to Any Graphics was seen on the XFlex X6 press

Sandip Bajaj of Jupiter discussing nitty gritties of the Bobst M6 Line deal

Anuj Bhargava of Kumar Labels with the Drukarnia team at the show

Deshpande (r) puts a display on the corona treatment unit

Singh (l) with his overseas counterpart

Singh (l) with his overseas counterpart

Noel D’Cunha and Rahul Kumar of PrintWeek India at the Labelexpo show