First Newfoil machine installed in Barbados

Barbados-based converter Caribbean Label Crafts has installed the country’s first Newfoil finishing machine. The company purchased a Newfoil 5500 hot stamping converting machine with a 250mm web width, with its electronic web re-register system working alongside an EFI Jetrion inkjet system. 

Established in 1986, Caribbean Label Crafts produces premium quality labels for the region’s rum and distilled spirits industry. 

Martin de Reus, operations manager, said: ‘We have spent quite some time looking at the options available in the digital converting market and feel that the Newfoil fits our operations perfectly.

‘This investment in our digital/short run department is in line with our continued development strategy for self-adhesive labels, allowing us to provide cutting-edge solutions to the challenges that our Caribbean and Latin American customers meet as they compete in a global environment.’ 

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