First Mark Andy LP3000 in France

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Label converter Bern-etic has installed the first of the new Mark Andy LP3000 flexo lines in France at its production plant in Brittany.  This family company, which was founded in 1984 by Emile and Gilberte Carr, and now employs sons Stephane and Frederick, and daughter Miriam, has always specialized in the 10” (280-300mm) label market.
‘After evaluating all the leading major press suppliers, we chose the Mark Andy LP3000 because we saw it as a step forward in our bid to offer high quality labels to increasingly discerning markets,’ explains Frederick Carr.  ‘Its ability to hold register at 200 m/min across the range of substrates we use makes it a very cost effective tool,’ he adds.


Predominantly servicing the food markets of France, Bern-etic focuses on the shorter run, multi-color jobs, where additional techniques like delam/relam and printing on the reverse side can be valuable sales aids.  The new LP3000 is an 8-colour press fitted with a full Hnle UV system.  This has allowed Bern-etic to offer a higher quality of label to customers whose work was previously printed using water based inks.  In addition to food, the company also supplies labels to the industrial and cosmetic markets, both of which demand high quality.
One of the advantages of the new LP3000 is its compatibility with Bern-etic’s existing Mark Andy 2200 machine. Installed in 1994, and also an 8-color flexo line, the 2200 has Mark Andy’s ‘Quick Change’ cassettes, while the new LP3000 uses the next generation ‘QC’ system intended for faster and cleaner make-ready. 
Outside of its existing business, which Frederick Carr describes as, ‘growing steadily rather than rapidly,’ Bern-etic is researching cold foil as an added-value item, and techniques for the lottery ticket market.  The company is well advanced in the printing of random numbering on the reverse side of the web and jobs that require metallic inks and varnish.