Codemark Colombia installs Nilpeter FB-350 press

Codemark Colombia was founded in 2005 by Camilo Mateus as a flexo company operating out of Bogotá, mainly providing promotional pressure-sensitive labels, ribbons, and codification machines to the local market. In 2019, Codemark started producing shrink sleeves.

The company has ambitious plans for 2022 with growth projections above 30 percent, mainly due to the installation of the new FB-350, which will allow them to offer applications, such as cold foil on pressure-sensitive labels and shrink sleeves, embossing, and de- and re-lamination.

‘The new FB-350 has doubled our average production speeds, giving us the chance to print more jobs per day, and thanks to the servo-technology and register settings, to reduce waste by up to 40 percent, depending on the job,’ said Camilo Mateus, general manager of Codemark Colombia. ‘The shrink sleeves market in Colombia has been in constant growth for the last five years - special applications such as cold foil are now widely demanded by end-users, and with this new installation, we will be able to cover that demand.’

The FB-Line offers a high ease of operation and is available in 13 and 16in widths. It is suitable for a flexible label printer featuring an innovative automation option, which can be added according to requirements and combined with value-added features, such as lamination, cold foil, hot foil, gravure, and screen printing. 

The press installed at Codemark has been equipped with a movable, rail-based cold foil system, which includes a separate UV-lamp, allowing them to run the application on different units in the press.

‘When we started the new press project, we considered several suppliers, as this was going to be our first modular press with high-end applications. We finally decided to invest with Nilpeter due to its sales support, the number and success of recent installations in Colombia, and the technical support it offers in the Latin American market,’ added Mateus. 

‘This project will be a milestone in the history of Codemark, as it’s the first modular press installed that is configured to run shrink sleeves and equipped with value-added applications,’ commented Juan Pablo Patino, commercial manager for the Andean Region at Nilpeter. ‘The FB-350 enables Codemark to increase the pre-press printing definition from 150 LPI (lines per inch) to 170 LPI on standard jobs and up to 200 LPI for high-definition printing jobs. We are delighted to welcome Codemark to the Nilpeter family.’