GM enhances finishing with new systems

Flex Series is a modular platform which increases flexibility while retaining its compact footprint. The customer can choose the output, while multiple converting features – including a 4-color inkjet module, auto knife box and turret rewinder – can be employed. ‘You could call it “In-line 2.0” – it’s an all-in-one in-line solution,’ commented GM CEO Uffe Nielsen.

DC350 is a new generation of larger capacity lines with higher speeds and wider web widths, whose key features include a 1-meter rewind, semi-rotary varnish and MIS integration.

GM’s ‘tandem concept’ – which allows a DC330mini, equipped with flexo unit and die-cutter, to be attached to a DC330FB, which runs dual screen, hot foil, varnish and flexo units. The machines can be run as two lines or as one, in tandem, with just the flip of a switch. ETPA Packaging, one of Greece’s leading converters, has recently installed the system.

A new version of the DC330mini will also be shown combined with a hot foil module. It has a short web path and features a flexo unit, hot foil, die-cutting and rewind.

Embellishment will be a key focus area too. On display will be the company’s off-line, standalone hot foil and screen units, aimed at smaller converters. A tension-modifying, in-register lamination module will also be launched for multi-layer label applications. The system was beta-tested by UK converter CS Labels, and the first official user is Danish converter Ikonprint.

‘Upcoming EU legislation for legal text creates the need for reverse printed labels,’ said Nielsen, ‘and this system is ideally suited.’

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