Tag: CI flexo

Bloomflex, a new Hyderabad-based start-up, has installed an 8-color Soma Premia 1050 CI flexo press. The company will produce flow wraps, wicket bags, pouches for hygiene and personal products, baby and adult diapers, edible-oil, milk, cheese. In addition it will produce several intermediate products as well as pouches and carry bags for wholesale and retail outlets with chosen concepts for added technical and aesthetic values. “We have started Bloomflex with an aim to produce environmentally friendly products that would be accepted worldwide,” says Prasant Mohanty, vice president – operations at Bloomflex. From all accounts this is an ambitious project with quite a few expansion ideas in the pipeline.

Established in 2009, Ahmedabad-based Jayshri Propack is a BRC-IOP certified flexible company that specializes in high performance multilayer films. The company has recently installed a Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H) Aquarex 7-layer blown film line, the first of its kind in South Asia. Several applications can be done on the machine including thermoforming, anti fog, vacuum bags, MAP films across the FMCG, food and other organized sectors.

Established in 2010, Ahmedabad-based Image Gravures manufactures engraved cylinders and has recently installed a DLE (Direct Laser Engraving) machine from Italy-based DV Lasers. Anant Patel, partner, Image Gravures said, “Within a short span of five years, we have purchased five K-5 smart electromechanical engravers from Hell Systems.”

Speaking about the demand for CI flexo presses in India, Ajay Tandon, president and CEO of Uflex engineering and new product development, says that CI flexo demand is picking up. Uflex recently shook hands with an Italian company to manufacture gear and gear-less CI flexo presses under a technology transfer agreement at Uflex’s engineering plant in Noida. Ajay Tandon says, “In Asia gravure printing is predominant, so the concentration of machines is gravure. In Europe it is 50% gravure and 50% CI flexo. In the US, it is 80% CI flexo and just about 20% gravure. In India, flexo is picking up quite fast since the last three to four years. Since flexo is picking up, we thought it to be the right time to get into flexo press manufacturing. Today, since the quality of CI flexo is very close to gravure, we see a very good potential for CI flexo machines.”

Italian firm Comiflex SRL has shaken hands with India’s largest global flexible packaging solution company Uflex confirming its intent to manufacture gearless CI Flexo printing machines under a Technology Transfer Agreement with the latter. This happened at drupa where Uflex is currently exhibiting.

Bobst will present an advanced range of technology and process solutions in printing and converting for the global label industry at Labelexpo Americas in Rosemont, ILL, USA, from 13 to 15 September 2016. Star of the show on Bobst’s stand will be the digital flexo process which will be demonstrated on the Bobst M6 mid-web inline UV flexo press. The advantages of digital flexo, which is part of Bobst Digital Automation programme, are unique in making the press operation fast, flexible and reliable, allied with a consistently superior quality of the output and the lowest total cost of ownership.