Comco secures sales in Central Asia & Eastern Europe

Comco, the package printing division of Mark Andy, has achieved two notable sales successes with orders for a six-color 18” and a seven-color 22” ProGlide line from Kyrgyzstan and Russia, respectively. The two orders were concluded by the company’s European subsidiary, Mark Andy AG, based in Basel, Switzerland.

The 18” Comco ProGlide, fitted with full UV-flexo capability and hot air drying capability, has been ordered by Triada Printing House for its newly created Triada Flex company, and will be installed in a brand new plant employing over 100 people. It will be the first flexo printing machine serving the Kyrgyz market, and will complement Triada’s existing line up of Heidelberg sheet fed offset presses that work around the clock producing print for the local area.

Triada, which was founded in 1995 by Alexander Zlatkin and Teimuraz Zaridze, has a reputation for high quality work and service, and boasts four years experience with CtP technology. The company has alliances with two sister plants, ST.ART Ltd at Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan, and PRINT.COM Intl at Almaty in Kazakhstan.

From its headquarters in Rostov-na-Don, Russia, Plast has ordered a 22” seven-color Comco ProGlide to offer printed packaging previously sourced from faraway Moscow. Set up in 2004 by Evgeny Kogan specifically to serve the local market with packaging products, Plast will use the Comco, which has been specified with a high-speed hot air Momentum drier, to produce food packaging, including shrink sleeves and bottle wraps.

This order was secured against tough competition from four European press manufacturers, according to Walter Eitner, Mark Andy’s sales manager based in Switzerland, who stated: ‘This is a reward for the time and effort we have invested in the development of Eastern European and Asian markets, where the combination of local representation and technical support from Mark Andy in Basel and Comco in Milford is essential to providing the security that emerging markets need to grow into new technology.’