Tresu commits to expanding digital folding carton market

The new division is focused on developing and producing the Tresu iCoat and Tresu Pinta, flexo coating systems for integration into digital printing lines for sheet-fed folding carton production. 

Tresu iCoat, capable of immediate coating after the printing stage and designed to integrate  alongside leading digital printing presses, provides a lean, single-pass converting option bringing with it a host of efficiencies in logistics, material waste, set-up time and manpower. Working at up to 5,000sph between 180-500gsm, the coater includes a flexo unit capable of applying spot and flood varnishes. It also features corona treatment, quick-change sleeve technology and the ability to switch from UV to aqueous varnish within a few minutes.

DigitalSolutions also has a dedicated demonstration center including an iCoat system featuring double-sided coating. The center enables converters and brand-owners to speed up product development by testing substrates and coating media.

Tresu is further using the center to drive innovation of a new proprietary varnish range, optimized for the coater, and to provide dedicated training facilities.

Tresu said that, in 2014, iCoat has been received with great enthusiasm, with several installations in Europe and North America. Tresu has developed variations of the coater to optimize integration with sheet-fed presses manufactured by HP and other players in the market.

Christian Matzen, who has been appointed as vice-president of DigitalSolutions, said: ‘With our dedicated production and testing facilities, Tresu DigitalSolutions is working to enable packaging printers to exploit the flexibility and growth potential of integrated digital folding carton workflows and compete in numerous high-end markets.’