UAE’s Sigma buys Lombardi Synchroline
UAE-based Sigma Middle East Labels Industries has invested in a Lombardi Synchroline 530 press. The machine was installed by Vinsak, the exclusive distributor of Lombardi presses in the region.
21 Nov 2022 | By Rahul Kumar
Sigma is a leading manufacturer of self-adhesive labels. Established in 2010 under the ownership and care of Jagannath M Wagle, the company has established itself as a reputable printer throughout the area with outstanding customer service and promise of satisfaction guaranteed. Starting with four colour printing, Sigma is into multi-colour label printing on a number of narrow-web flexo presses.
Sigma specialises in all types of labels including self-adhesive and shrink sleeves for markets such as product labels, industrial labels, price stickers, cargo labels with facilities like cold foil stamping, lamination, and UV printing in sheet/roll form and supplies them to various industries as pharma, cargo industry, steel industry, food industry, plastic industry, and so on.
Vinsak proposed the Lombardi Synchroline 530-mm wide eight-colour flexo press fully loaded with options of web cleaner, double sided corona treatment, turn bar, cold foil, UV dryer and hot air tunnel for meeting the diversified needs of the client in narrow-web shrink sleeve and IML production.
The press, with its capability to print on a wide variety of substrates from 12-micron film to 450-gsm board. It’s maximum repeat of 1000-mm is the largest in the industry giving Sigma a unique advantage to access niche markets.
“In Vinsak, we found a reliable partner who has supported us in deciding the specifications of the equipment to suit our current and future needs as well to supply the correct tooling, ancillaries as well as complete installation and training support of this project and enabled us to start production in the shortest possible time,” Wagle said, “The company’s consultative approach is different to some of the hard-nosed sales teams with whom we have dealt in the past. In fact, our decision to move from another global brand to Lombardi was greatly driven by the service provided by Vinsak.”