Top Products – Post-press and finishing

Brotech Graphic (Stall M37)

Finishing, converting, and quality inspection

Design your own system for finishing and converting applications, says this Shenzhen-based company in China, Brotech Graphic. The solution can be designed not only for normal pressure sensitive labels, but also for EAS, RFID, IML, tickets and tags, including new solutions for booklet labels. The company claims it has joined HP Indigo’s partner programme for finishing solutions, offering Indigo users a variety of converting solutions. Brotech is present through Weldon Celloplast in India.

Hyden Packaging (Stall B7)

ServoTech B400HS

The company, which forayed into the label segment with the launch of the U 350 slitter-rewinder cum camera-based inspection system during the last show, has a new machine up its sleeve.

At the show, it will unveil the ServoTech B400HS, a bi-directional slitting inspection machine. The machine will be displayed with an AVT Helios series inspection camera. Power operated unwind roll lifter, servo operated web buffer, individual servo operated dual-shaft rewinder, secondary web aligner, electronically operated air expanding shafts, PLC controlled operating system with touchscreen interface are some of the features.

The 27-year-old company, which specialises in manufacturing dry offset printing presses for the decoration of disposable plastics containers, has installed over 125 dry offset machines in India and overseas.

Martin Automatic (Stall G7)

Martin MBS butt splicer

The popular MBS automatic butt splicing unwind, first introduced in 1985 with its patented linear sheer splice unit and integrated roll-loading system, has transformed over 900 label presses into non-stop profit making centres around the world. Expanding on the success with label converters, Martin has continued creating for other markets, providing butt splicers for tube laminate, shrink sleeve, and wrap-around label processes as well as narrow to mid-web carton presses. And why not? The machines are easy to understand, use and maintain.

Pantec (Stall H37)

Rhino II

There are quite a few must-sees here for representatives from the wine, tequila and whiskey labels as well as luxury packaging producers. One is the Rhino inline flatbed foil and embossing hologram, which is up to 510mm wide, a fast stamping unit that integrates into almost many rotary presses. It makes multi-colour 3D reliefs inline and single pass.

Pantec GS Systems’ flatbed foil-embossing system, Rhino II, provides registered holographic patches and multi-stepping application of different foils. Its record high stroke frequency of 25,000 strokes per hour allows manufacturing of highly decorated premium labels and luxury packaging in single pass in-line at speeds that make such labels viable for new markets.

Also see the Pantec Swift and Cheetah stamping technologies.

PGI Technologies (Stall G25)

Press and rewinder

PGI Technologies, formerly Precise Graphics, will launch a three-colour flexo press with a web-width of 330. Other features of the press include two die-cutting stations, a turn bar and hot air drying. Factory trials have reached a top speed of 90 metres a minute, claims the company.

Also see the new launch, Precicut 330 with turret rewinder, a rotary die-cutting machine with a web width of 330mm. Other features include electronic web guide, rotary die-cutting and rotary razor blade slitting. The machine can run at a speed of 150 metres a minute. Another new product running on the show floor is a servo-slitting machine with 100% defect detection and a web width of 370mm.

Stovec (Stall H7)

Retrofittable RSI

The company promises to make rotary screen and UV inkjet printing processes efficient and productive at its stall, which it is sharing with Stovec Industries. With a workbench preparing live jobs, the stall will highlight the ease of adopting rotary screen printing thanks to SPG Prints technology. The company’s Retrofittable RSI (Rotary Screen Integration) units can be integrated with almost all label presses to perform in perfect synchronisation, inline with other processes. Non-woven nickel re-engravable RotaMesh, and on non-SPGPrints presses, reusable RotaPlate screens offer durability and stability at up to 100m/min (330 fpm).  SPG Prints’ pre-press exhibits offer fast, sustainable and digitised solutions for high-definition screen imaging.

Vinsak (Stall K5 & K8)

Usar slitter rewinder

Launched in January, the Usar slitter rewinder is a modular system which can be upgraded with a servo register for die-cutting of blank as well as pre-printed labels.
At the show, the Usar will see a further upgrade with a re-register die-cutting unit and an inkjet system on board.

The Usar is available in web width from 250mm to 530mm, wherein the unwind is a standard 700mm and the maximum rewind up to 450mm in twin rewind mode or 700mm in single rewind mode. It can throughput at the speeds of 300 metres per minute.

There are five Usar machines installed already and four more are in the pipeline, claims Vinsak, the printing and finishing equipment manufacturer, a sister company of Creed Engineers. Vinsak is working on a semi-rotary intermittent die-cutting unit on the Usar system, which is expected to be launched in December.

Vectra ECTR 430 rewinder

ABG International, one of the leading manufacturers of label finishing solution, is showcasing its turret rewinder, Vectra ECTR 430, which is fully upgradable with a wide range of options. These options include servo technology upgrades, allowing the ETCR to produce a range of finished rolls from a wide spectrum of substrates. The ECTR is also fully compatible with automatic core loading options and finished roll label application options. The ECTR, with its wide range of optional extras, including automatic core loading, is fully compatible with AB Graphic International’ own 100% camera inspection system.