Tag: CI flexo

In end January, we met Gianfranco Nespoli of Comiflex together with Ajay Tandon, president and chief executive officer – engineering and new product development, and director of Ultimate Flexipack and Sanjay Sabharwal, executive vice president of the Uflex engineering division. “Nespoli is a hardcore flexo man with close to 40 years of experience in flexo press manufacturing,” says Tandon. “So we have a technical tie-up wherein we are using their drawings, designs, their brains, their support, their component developments overseas and more—the agreement comes with a complete package.”

The Hudson-Sharp Machine company is a world-wide leader in the design and manufacture of plastic bag making machinery, pouch making machinery, and reclosable packaging...

India’s leading manufacturer of web offset presses, Manugraph tied up with Italy’s Carraro, to make advanced gearless CI flexo presses at drupa. This became...

Modern marketing trends in all areas of packaging are increasing the pressure on flexographic printers. Whether you print flexible packaging, folding cartons or corrugated...

Stovec Industries, a subsidiary of SPG Prints Netherlands, is focussing on the Indian packaging market with its Direct Laser Engraver or DLE systems and...

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.