Belarusian company hosts Edale open house

Bobruisk Printing House recently held an open house at its factory in Belarus, following the installation of Edale’s first fully servo driven flexo press to enter the country. The 8-color 430mm Edale Gamma, as well as an Edale Alpha compact flexo press, were shown to current and potential customers.

The day began with presentations from Vladimir Pasko, director of Bobruisk Printing House, and Bernhard Grob, Edale’s export sales director. Visitors saw the Gamma running a live production job and job change during a factory tour. This was followed by a question and answer session. Attendees included Edale’s Ukrainian distributor, MacHouse, who accompanied several companies from the Ukraine. One customer, due to have an Edale machine installed in May, also brought his in-house printer for a pre-installation training session.

The Edale Gamma flexo printing and converting system allows Bobruisk to produce all of its flexible packaging products. It features servo drives on each print head providing pre-register, auto-register and print length control features. Combined with the print head design, this ensures job change times and set up wastage is minimized and print head color change can be done in under 70 seconds.

Pasko said, ‘Edale’s open mind for special market niche machine solutions has been instrumental to us, and got us into flexo giving us a leading edge as well as a fast return on investment. We felt that with a diversification from our current security printing into commercial flexo we could also benefit from the growth in this field, and the Gamma has been in a two to three shift production, quicker than anticipated.’

Grob also spent a couple of days promoting the Edale brand across Belarus with Boris Shagovaleyev, head of equipment sales at Tusson. In addition, Chris Chappel, Edale’s print application engineer, spent two days with the Tusson technical team giving further in-depth machine training.

Shagovaleyev added, ‘The success we have managed to achieve has been built up over a 10 year period offering our customers first class technical support; starting from the initial instruction, maintenance support, spare parts and machine upgrades for dedicated niche applications.’

Pictured l-r: Edale’s print application engineer Chris Chappel with Bobruisk’s Gamma operator

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