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Its sister company, Interplast – based in Sharjah,
UAE – bought the same model of machine in 2014. The new press is almost identical to the first one.
Above: Natpak of Zimbabwe recently installed a Comexi F2 MB flexographic press
laminator and S2 DT slitter – to Socipack of Ivory Coast. All three have now been installed at the company’s headquarters in Abidjan. “Ivory Coast is in a phase of rapid expansion and has possibilities to become the hub of West Africa,” sid Gironès. Socipack, a leading flexpack producer, previ- ously installed a similar package of flexo press, laminator and slitter from Comexi back in 2016. The latest acquisition will help Socipack to increase its productivity and capabilities, to produce a wider range of products. Abdallah Hassan, Socipack’s managing director,
said: “This has enhanced our productivity and brought a new range of products onto the African market as the demand growth has evolved.” The F2 MB press is designed to satisfy the printing needs of medium flexible packaging runs. It shares the group’s patented FlexoEfficiency concepts of ergonomics and accessibility as well as the performance and robustness of the rest of F2 flexo press range, said Comexi.
Flexo in the Gulf Riyadh Plastic Factory (RPF), part of Harwal Group, has installed a Bobst 20Six CI flexo press to extend its production capacity in flexible packaging.
Featuring 10 colours, a print width of 1450mm, printing speed up to 500 m/min and maximum repeat of 1200mm, it meets the customer’s demands for a wide range of applications. Among the highlights of the presses is the SmartGPS off-press set-up system that not only reduces the job change overtime and amount of waste during set-up to almost zero, but also serves as a quality control instrument for printing hardware and plate mounting. “Ever since the first Bobst 20Six was installed, it has performed to our full satisfaction, both in terms of print quality and productivity,” said Mike Koroukian, executive director of the packaging materials division of Harwal Group. Both presses are used for printing films in a
variety of materials – including LDPE, BOPP and PET – in forms such as laminates, shrink sleeves and twist wraps. Earlier, at last year’s Labelexpo Europe show, Bobst launched the M8, a high speed, automated print production and finishing system for flexipack. The new line is a multi-process, multi-web inline printing and converting machine using Bobst’s Digital Flexo technology on a machine with web widths up to 1070mm and speeds up to 400 m/ min. Bobst Digital Flexo features include complete digital control of the press, with camera-monitored closed loop press operations that enable fully automated pre-register and adjustment of the print pressure and register, and camera-based print quality/PDF comparisons at all speeds.
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