UNI Packaging is set to increase its digital print capability with the installation of a HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press in its ICPACK facility in Périgny, France.
The purchase forms part of the group’s long term investment strategy to ensure that it continues to develop a specialised offering for its customers’ stringent colour and quality requirements.
The press, which provides a 750 mm wide web solution for flexible packaging and sleeves, can print in high definition up to seven colours including white ink.
It can print on a wide range of substrates, including film, shrink film, paper, aluminium and biodegradable materials, in thicknesses from 12 to 450 microns.
Using Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM), with no make-ready required and quick changeovers, the press is not limited by the number of jobs it can produce per day.
‘The increased pressure on packaging converters in producing multiple SKU’s, has resulted in more jobs, shorter runs, shorter lead times and faster turnarounds, but with the same high quality requirements. With the new press we will soon be able to offer more digital printing capabilities to our customers, helping them improve cycle time and speed to market, lower inventory and obsolescence and produce just-in-time, cost-effective short-runs more cost-effectively,’ said CEO, Franck Caresmel.
He added, ‘With our on going digital investment we are opening a lot of doors to new, larger customers. Last year our overall output volumes grew by 12%, in large part thanks to our digital packaging line. We aim to double our turnover by 2020.’
UNI Packaging launched a digital print offering under its Digiflex brand two years ago and this installation builds on the company’s acquisition of the Merseyside-based flexible packaging printer, Arteb, in June.
