Italgrafica orders Rotocontrol RSC and C series units

Headquartered in the province of Vicenza, Italgrafica is part of the Konig Print Group and produces a range of blank and printed self-adhesive labels, thermal labels, in-mold labels, ISEGA-certified labels, shrink-sleeves and tags. Italgrafica serves a range of markets including beverage, food, floriculture, chemical, retail, logistics and clothing with finishing options including hologram, braille, resin, scratch-and-sniff, hot stamping, screen printing, and RFID. Italgrafica was the first Italian company to produce environmentally sustainable labels.

Francesco Niorettini, general manager of Italgrafica, said: ‘We evaluated other finishing alternatives but decided to invest in Rotocontrol as it was able to provide an advanced solution, customized to our needs.

‘With our vast range of label, tag and flexible packaging product capabilities, printed with 14 production lines using a combination of offset, flexo and digital printing, we needed to expand with a high-quality finishing solution. Our two new Rotocontrol machines achieve this goal.’

The Rotocontrol RSC slitter rewinder ordered by Italgrafica will be built with a BST Shark 4000 LEX 100 percent print defect detection system and Rotocontrol’s electronic knife positioning system (EPOS), which fully automates the slitting set-up, reducing job change time to less than a minute.

The second finishing machine ordered by Italgrafica is a fully-loaded, modular and custom-built Rotocontrol C series. Accommodating 340mm and 540mm web widths, the C series designed for Italgrafica also features a large unwind diameter of 1,000mm, decurling device, three die stations (including back-side die-cutting), three label dispensers and a sheeter station.