Nilpeter presents flexible packaging narrow web press FA-26
April 11, 2020The latest and widest flexo press
we have ever developed, the 670 mm wide FA-26 presents a significant shift in
product strategy. We’re entering new markets, with all the well-known Nilpeter
features, and setting new standards within flexibility, sustainability, fast
job change-overs, and automation. Now made possible for the wider web
conventional flexible packaging segment, where job-changes traditionally are
more timely and more expensive. At Nilpeter, we have seen increased market interest
for quite some time now, both from our existing label print customers, and from
flexible packaging printers, geared towards inline printing of pouches, flow
packs, form-fill-seal as well as converting of shrink sleeves, in shorter runs,
and smaller batches.
Outstanding features and benefits from our existing label printing presses
With the new FA-26, we are able to offer the same, outstanding features and
benefits from our well-known label printing press program – high quality flexo printing,
UV, solvent or water based, combined with many inline converting processes – on
a wide variety of new substrates, recyclable and biodegradable plastic
substrates included. This is made possible thanks to the very comprehensive and
advanced automation system from our line of label printing presses, transferred
to wider web printing to provide a very sustainable and lean performance.
The flexibility of the new FA-26
Recyclable and biodegradable plastic substrates are a big part of this new
development with a keen focus on more environmentally friendly materials. The
flexibility of the new FA-26 allows converting of newly developed substrates as
well as traditional, combined with different laminating technologies – enabling
different lamination systems to create recyclable packaging applications.
New opportunities for label printers and flexible packaging converters
The printing world is quickly evolving in a direction where sustainability is
as important as costs or technical features. As manufacturers, it is our
responsibility to establish a route that combines advanced technical features
with sound economics and sustainable production – to avoid that one of these
elements becomes an obstacle for the other two. Printing and converting inline,
thus limiting waste, open new opportunities for label printers as well as
flexible packaging converters, enabling them to offer short run value-added
flexible packaging products.
Furthermore, the press has attracted new technological developments from
flexible packaging OEM’s, leaving us both very excited and optimistic for the
future. The ability to print and create a fully functional laminate inline, by
utilizing solvent dry lamination or E-Beam, is quite clearly very sought after
in the market. The E-Beam enables PET/PET instant cured lamination – a
recyclable construction for flexible packaging – made possible by the high
level of accuracy in manufacturing, and the accurate and automatic save and
recall of process parameters.