First US installation of Nilpeter’s MO offset press

US converter National Labels, based in Pennsylvania, has purchased the country’s first MO-4 offset press from Nilpeter.

The company reports increased business in high quality labels for the health and beauty sector as a motivating factor behind the purchase of the sleeve-based narrow web combination offset press – and says further purchases may be made in the future.

Jim Shacklett, III, chief executive officer, National Labels, said: ‘The new MO-4 allows us to improve our quality and reduce our waste of time, material, and set-up resources. The performance of the Nilpeter MO-3300 Servo is a benchmark in our industry; however, after intensive testing on our new MO-4, we are pleased to see further improved quality and productivity. We now look forward to implementing this new combination machine which will certainly increase our productivity.’

Lars Eriksen, Nilpeter president & CEO, added: ‘I am very proud to have National Labels as our valued partner. The MO-4 is a strategic product for us – and I am sure that it will bring a lot of new business opportunities to both of our companies. There is so much new technology available – and we have focused on utilizing it for the benefit of the processes and the press operators. The main focus, however, has been on saving tooling costs, time, and waste aiming this new offset press at short as well as long runs.’

The new MO-4 is compatible with UV flexo, UV screen, UV and solvent gravure, hot foil, cold foil, Caslon UV inkjet as well as numerous in-line converting principles. The company says the machine’s major advantage over other combination offset solutions in the narrow web industry is its Easy-Load lightweight sleeve system that has replaced the old-fashioned cassettes, reportedly considerably reducing setup time and waste.