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The Omet VaryFlex lines ordered
by Multi-Color show two
firsts – first flexo, gravure, screen combination presses in
the USA, and first narrow web presses in a wide web plant
After designing and installing a press that combines flexo and
rotogravure print units – the first of its kind in the USA,
Omet has secured an order for a second machine from one the
America’s largest label converting groups, Multi-Color
Corporation.
Multi-Color is one of the leading US suppliers to the label industry,
producing work for over 330 of the best known brands across a wide
sector of the global market. This includes labels for
foodstuff and beverages, personal care and health and beauty, as well
as household and automotive products. The company offers a
complete package of services that includes specialist and individual
packaging solutions for more than 650 customers spread across North,
Central, and South America. Multi-Color’s service
includes graphic design for packaging right up to finding the best
place on the shelf to display the products.
With eight production facilities, 650 employees, and a 2007 turnover
predicted to exceed US$ 220 million, Multi-Color Corporation, a NASDAQ
quoted company, is headquartered in Sharonville, Ohio.
Renowned as one of the most important label producers worldwide,
particularly in ‘in-mold’ technology (IML), Multi-
Color’s production capabilities also include heat-transfer
(HTL), cut and stack and pressure sensitive labels, as well as shrink
labels.
With a pressing need to fulfill international obligations to its
various customers, Multi-Color selected Omet technology as the best way
to expand its print capability. It reasoned that only an Omet
press would offer the flexibility of supply needed to satisfy the
customers’ increasing demand for individual decorative
solutions.
The culmination of this was the installation of an Omet VaryFlex
machine, specially designed to combine flexo and rotogravure printing
at Multi-Color’s main production facility in Sharonville,
Ohio, historically a wide web plant. The new Omet is not only
the first narrow web press to be installed there, it is the first to be
configured for flexo, gravure, screen, and foil platforms, and sets new
standards of print quality and productivity.
The choice of an innovative Omet design, according to Don Kneir,
President of the Decorative Solutions Division: “originates
in our desire to go on being a market leader with innovative decorative
solutions. This new technology solves one of the major market problems,
namely supplying complex and intricate graphics in a timely and
efficient way from the cost viewpoint.”
It was Omet’s pioneering design concept that impressed
Multi-Color the most. Jack Mackert, Operational Vice
President, explained: “because the Omet has such precise
register characteristics, the combination of different print
technologies that can be interchanged anywhere in the press line, makes
the VaryFlex unique in the world, and allows us to produce different
and very high-definition products.”
The close working partnership, established over the past months, has
allowed Omet and Multi-Color to explore new and important development
opportunities. Already, a second combination VaryFlex line is
under construction at Omet’s plant in Lecco, Italy.
It is scheduled for delivery to Multi-Color in February 2008.
Speaking for Omet, Sales Director, Marco Calcagni commented:
“It is very satisfying to be chosen as a cooperative partner
by such an important group on the world scene as Multi Color, and
particularly pleasing to secure a second order so soon after the
first. I believe this indicates how well received
Omet’s technology is becoming around the world. I
am delighted that our design and engineering teams are gaining
recognition for their innovation and the flexibility it brings to
converters. It allows Omet to provide advanced solutions to
ever more demanding customers”.
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