Norway’s PSI grows with Mark Andy Performance press

Founded in 1985 as a label broker, PSI is one of Norway’s leading single-source suppliers of labels and labelling technology.  Over the course of the next 20 years, the company grew through acquisitions, and today has four label manufacturing plants, two in Norway and two in Sweden.

The company has flexo capacity in Tangen and in Gothenburg, with digital presses in Oslo and Malmo.

The latest installation at the Tangen plant is a Mark Andy Performance Series P5 line, with a 13in web width and eight UV flexo print units. It joins a Mark Andy 2200 UV press and an older water-based machine, and is the company’s first investment in flexo technology in Norway for 13 years.

Specified to move the company into new product areas like wraparounds, the P5 features Mark Andy’s film package, which includes a corona treater and web cleaner, as well as a chilled impression roller that allow the press to handle unsupported film. The new press, which was installed at the end of May, will also provide the company with additional capacity to supply labels to the meat and fish industries in Norway, which offer significant growth capacity for PSI.

Speaking for Convertec, Mark Andy’s agent in Scandinavia, Joakim Marcusson said: ‘This P5 is well specified. It has delam/relam and web turn bars, cold foil, lamination and the Mark Andy web translator that allows peel/reseal work. 

‘It is working in-line with a turret rewinder, and most significant is that is has the new QCDC high-speed die cutting unit, which reduces die changeover times from typically 15 minutes to just 60 seconds.’

PSI sales manager Lars Orbeck is looking to build up the company’s wraparound business, demand for which is growing fast in Norway, with the P5’s ability to handle unsupported film key.

Orbeck said: ‘I can foresee more investment here in label production technology, and more group acquisitions, as we move towards offering a complete single source supply of labels and dispensing equipment – it’s what our customers are asking for.’

PSI is also keenly eyeing the new EU food package labeling regulations that are due to become law this autumn. ‘They will stimulate new designs and extra labels, which is very good for our business,’ Orbeck concluded.

Pictured (from left): PSI P5 operator Tore Aasen, with Joakim Marcusson of Mark Andy’s agent Convertec and Lars Orbeck, sales manager at PSI