Double sale in Asia for Omet

One year after the installation of its first Super-Varyflex, one Chinese tobacco giant is preparing to commission its second Omet. 

The Italian company is now reaping the rewards of its investment in the Asian market.  Having opened its sales office in Shanghai last year, building on an investment program that first began in 2003, the company has just enjoyed a major boost to its sales figures. 

Less than 12 months after installing one of its highly specified Varyflex lines for the one-pass production of cigarettes box, it has taken an order for a second machine from one of China’s tobacco producing giant’s in the Hubei province.

The new Omet Varyflex line, which will be installed at the end of 2006, is almost an identical copy of the first one. This will permit sharing of units and facilities such as print units, screen, and hot foil saving, as well as hologram insertion.  

The two parallel Omet lines will be scheduled to perform more than four job changes per day on work that is particularly complex. The new machine is designed to allow at least three processes to be carried out on the web prior to flexo printing, such as jobs that require a greater lay down of metallic inks to achieve the desired color balance.

Once again, the use of the magnetic blade will allow reductions in both production time and job changes.