Uteco’s Sapphire Evo digital press for flexible packaging

At K2019 in Dusseldorf, we had the opportunity to meet with Giuseppi Sauli at the Uteco stand. Sauli is a frequent visitor to Asia and India. In our previous meeting in Delhi, he mentioned that the first Uteco Saphire Sapphire Evo digital press had been sold to an Asian customer in Japan. As he said to us at K, “The first machine was installed a few years back in the US and the second in Italy. And, the third machine will be installed at a packaging printer in Japan next month – in November 2019.” The Japanese customer’s press underwent extensive factory testing just before the K exhibition. Sauli said, “For the factory test, a big team came from Japan together with a couple of suppliers of substrates. The tests were on paper and films, including breathable films. The print output was really satisfactory, and the customer is in a big hurry to quickly install this machine, and this will happen next month in November 2019. Sauli made it very clear that while the time…

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