Labelexpo 2022 preview: Nippon Color-Sai Enterprises
Nippon Color | Stand M23
Coming to Labelexpo India for the first time, Nippon Color will be promoting HD platemaking technologies aimed at flexo plate trade shop owners and digital label printing and finishing solutions for label converters. The company has recently been authorised to sell Screen’s UV inkjet digital label printing solutions. So, its star product would be Screen’s Truepress Jet L350UV SAI series. The new SAI range offers improved colour reproduction with CMYK + O + B as well as superior scalability, enabling it to meet an even wider variety of market needs. The series is reliable and robust. Analysing data from over 150 installations of the L350UV+ series worldwide, customers have reported uptime in excess of 90%. Again, considering safety standards, low migration ink for SAI LM is fully compliant with the EuPIA Exclusion Policy for Printing Inks and Related Products, the positive list of the Swiss Ordinance and Nestle Guidance for packaging inks.
Novexx Solutions | Stand F5
The company will showcase its XLS series label applicator at Labelexpo 2022. The multifunctional label applicator is designed in a manner that it can be mounted in any direction and can work 24x7 in any condition, which is not possible in traditional Indian applicators. It can be synced with any production line on its existing running system; often the existing product handling system is sufficient for the machine to run. The machine has a small and unique design, and it can run at high speed with exceptional accuracy.
Packline Machines | C8
Packline will present its fully automatic die-punching machine with continuous/print registered embossing. The company claims that its machines bring down costs and waste by up to 15%. Packline has more than 250 installations with more than 50 installations outside India. The machines can handle foil/paper, plastic//PET/PE laminated lids, labels cups, cones, plates, in-mould labels and induction seals of any complex profiles and sizes.
Printronics/Newgen Printronics India | P13
The company will showcase the Durst industrial UV inkjet digital press. It will also have a presentation gallery to present the entire solutions for labels and flexibles packaging segments. The Durst digital press offers high productivity up to 100 linear metres. It offers consistent print quality irrespective of machine aging. The robust digital press is built to work 24x7x365. It has a browser-based workflow having all-in-one to streamline the pre-press and print production process. The company has four Durst presses installed in India.
Polyart | Stand E11
PolyartGroup, a producer of specialty solutions on papers and films and synthetic paper, will debut its new extended portfolio at the show. Its extended line of papers and films ranges from specialty facestocks to tag material and in-mold label material for blow molding. The company will show for the first time two new sustainable substrates – r-Polyart, synthetic paper made of 30% post-consumer recycled material; and Fiberskin, a weather resistant paper, recyclable and biodegradable, printable by dry toner, for short term outdoor exposure. The company claimed that its Polyart IML film is the only HDPE based film for in-mold labels blow-molding applications. For tag applications the company will show its Satinex range of HDPE based, highly resistant and 100% recyclable material for outdoor labels.
Pulisi Technology | Stand P5
Pulisi will debut its AOBEAD digital press model DPIM330 for the first time after recent global launch in Korea and the USA, in addition to home country China. The multifunction UV inkjet label press with 600 dpi and 1200 dpi offers configuration of flexo+W+CMYK +flexo and inline inspection system.
Rakesh Paper Company | Stand TBD
Rakesh Paper is a 50-year-old paper trading house and has been instrumental in offering mill surplus pressure-sensitive labelstock at competitive prices, as cost reduction has been a top agenda for all converters. The company covers all spectrum of products, right from paper to films to specialty label stock converted to client specs. The company imports and trades PSA materials.
Rotometrics | Stand G7
At the show, Rotometrics will host a training session titled Precision rotary tooling through customised cutting solutions. Amol Naval of Rotometrics will conduct three training sessions each day. The sessions will showcase the power of precision for efficient conversion of substrates by rotary tooling and the method of improving the life of the tooling.
SG Edge | Stand N1
SG Edge will introduce a budget-friendly flexo printing machine with full servo auto registration from its principal, Hong Sheng. Each unit of the machine features servo control and is exclusively available from SG Edge.
Sai Enterprises | Stand M48
At the show, Sai Enterprises will showcase its domain knowhow, reproduction capabilities and print quality with consistency are the three highlights. According to Gopal Krishnan of Sai Enterprises, the success of the company today is because of the support of its clients and they are the one who have extracted the best out of the Sai team. Therefore, the company is concentrating on showcasing these three services. In the immediate future, the company is looking at sustainable possibilities to make flexo plates.