A new company, packaging.digital, has launched as the first independent single-pass print service provider in Germany in the field of digital printing of corrugated for packaging and displays.
Based in the greater Cologne area of Germany, packaging.digital will serve corrugated manufacturers and converters in German-speaking countries and Benelux from November 2023 onwards. The company is aiming to deliver its B2B clientele a combination of cutting-edge, high-quality digital printing technology and in-depth expert consultancy. The company’s business model is based around delivering OEM packaging services for integrated corrugated cardboard plants, converters, stationary trade and e-commerce. This model targets those manufacturers and processors of corrugated packaging and displays that do not have in-house digital print production facilities.
For digital corrugated printing, packaging.digital has installed a Xeikon Idera, which runs food-safe, pigment-based aqueous inkjet inks, with the ability to handle a 1.6 x 2.8m board size – whether coated and uncoated in the F to BC flute material bandwidth – and print at up to 150 linear m/min. The 100% water-based inks, with no UV components, meet the environmental and sustainability targets of packaging.digital, whilst the technology operates at what is claimed as the lowest known power consumption for digitally printed corrugated formats on the market.
Mario Deilen, co-CEO at packaging.digital, said, ‘Xeikon Idera is the only digital printing technology that allows us to realise individualisation, handle short runs and deliver at the speed the process of corrugated packaging and display production requires. Xeikon Idera enables us to think outside the box and bring new concepts to the market.’
Jens Henrik Osmundsen, head of Idera sales at Xeikon, noted, ‘We look forward to supporting packaging.digital in making the benefits of digital printing of corrugated formats available to companies of all sizes. Xeikon Idera is designed to bring high-quality digital printing to the corrugated market and the packaging.digital new OEM service model exemplifies just that.’
