KDS installs Mark Andy P3 with LED-UV

KDS, a Polish label converter, has become the first commercial user of a LED-UV narrow web press in Europe following the installation of a Mark Andy P3 Performance Series.

KDS, the Polish label converter, has become the first commercial user of a LED-UV narrow web press in Europe, with the recent installation of a Mark Andy P3 Performance Series

With LED-UV’s facility for instant start up and shut down, KDS estimates the P3 is saving it around 2,000 EUR per month on electricity consumption, compared with conventional UV, and has significantly reduced substrate wastage.

Currently running the P3 at 150m/min using 70 percent of lamp capacity, KDS sees opportunities for further savings. The new press also requires less heat and ozone dissipation, and operates at a lower decibel level than a conventional UV press, making for a better operator environment.

The new press, Using Paragon Inks supplied locally by DSL went straight on to triple shift working. It sits alongside a Mark Andy P5 in the label converter’s pressroom.

Based in Sulejowek near Warsaw, KDS has reported a recent 18 percent growth in sales, which will top out at six million EUR. 

KDS owner Tomasz Dabrowski said: ‘We like to pioneer technology and had no hesitation in choosing the P3 because our other Mark Andy presses are solid performers and we enjoy top class after sales support here in Poland.

‘Colours are sharp and consistent, and because of the higher pigmentation in the inks, we can run with a lower volume anilox.’

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