GiDue installs its first Slovenian press

Italian press manufacture GiDue S.p.A has supplied its first F-Combat film press in Slovenia to Slovenska Bistrica-based Fleksotisk Logar. The six color, UV flexo press is equipped with six UV lamp heads with integral chill rollers for heat management and joins a range of five existing flexographic printing presses at Fleksotisk Logar.

A family owned company established in 1987, Fleksotisk Logar serves the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food label markets printing on a wide variety of substrates including aluminum foils down to 20micron thickness, paper and PP foils, PET foils down to 30 micron as well as on a range of self-adhesive foils. It also supplies self-adhesive labels for automatic and manual product labeling.

Commenting on the purchase, production and quality manager Silvo Malovrh said. ‘We were impressed with the support GiDue gave us during the purchasing and installation processes and promises concerning performance of the press have been totally realized. The main reasons we changed to the GiDue press is that it is truly operator friendly. The Flower print head allows fast job changes and the press gives us consistently high quality and productivity and is also very well suited for short run work. The NUVA-plus UV system supplied on the press with integrated chill rollers from GEW is really innovative and a must for the kind of work we are producing. We found the complete GiDue team, from owners to workers, very innovative and “young thinking”. I could say that my dreams have become true.’

The F-Combat will enable the company to grow its market share in film printing and while its main market is Slovenia, it also exports product to both Austria and Croatia. The company has its own in-house pre-press department that enables full plate making flexibility and fast customer response.

Federico d’Annunzio, GiDue managing director, added: ‘The F-Combat is a good choice for printers to enter into the packaging world while keeping a focus on labels with limited investment outlay. This is the first press we have supplied in Slovenia and we are grateful to Fleksotisk Logar for this in-road. We see Eastern Europe as a strong growth sector for the web fed flexographic printing and converting industry and we plan to be in the forefront of that growth’.