Kompac open house to mark launch of Australian dealership

Melbourne-based AGS is a leading provider of services, consumables, equipment sales and spare parts to the printing industry throughout Australia. Commenting on the appointment, Peter Farmer, director of international sales for Kompac, said: ‘We believe that AGS is the ideal partner for Kompac to develop and support the Kompac range of equipment and distribute our spare parts throughout Australia.’ 

With products available for sheets or web, Kompac’s coating and curing systems provide a quick and easy way to apply UV, aqueous, primer and specialty coatings to a wide variety of substrates including those that are digitally printed, according to Ross Gilberthorpe, equipment sales and marketing manager for AGS.  

‘Kompac products are unlike anything else in the market,’ Gilberthorpe said. ‘It is a worldwide company based in the USA that has been in the industry for many years. They have reinvented themselves by creating an entire range of coating systems for both offset and digital printers.

‘A lot of printers might need to go from one coating to another, say, aqueous to UV. The time change for this would normally be up to an hour, but with Kompac’s systems it can be done in five minutes. For a digital printer with short runs, that might require different coatings for different jobs, the Kompac coating systems can be changed quickly, saving a lot of time.’