Malawian printer makes Edale investment for packaging

The 350mm-wide machine has features including twin rewind, IR heaters, full rail system, and a specialized vacuum delivery system for paper label and film production.

Flexible Packaging Industries, operating out of Chirimba, Malawi, was looking for a machine that could be flexible across a number of applications and substrate ranges, in particular self-adhesive labels, wrap around and wet glue labels through to flexible and filmic packaging and even light carton.

Flexible Packaging Industries director Faizal Khamboo said: ‘Edale was recommended to us by an industry supplier who could not meet the needs of our request. Edale being a British manufacturer was a huge bonus to us as we knew we could rely on high quality standards, both in service and engineering design.

‘The print head design was what initially impressed me about the machine, as well as being very operator friendly. Having the machine now installed, the build quality of the press is excellent and even better than we had expected.’

Chris Chappel, Edale’s sales manager who managed the sale, added: ‘Our focus at Edale is on the design and engineering of products that are more efficient than current methods or equivalent technologies – in this instance, we were thrilled to be able to meet the requirements of Flexible Packaging Industries and look forward to working with, and supporting them, with their long term growth plans.’

Service and support after the press had been installed was also important to Flexible Packaging Industries, with Edale offering a 24/7 support service as standard.

‘We are extremely happy about the service received from Edale,’ added Khamboo, ‘not just during the sales process but the journey that has followed.

‘The installation went exactly as planned, and though we have not experienced any problems with the machine we are reassured that if there are ever any issues, Edale will be on hand for support. We are thrilled we chose to work with Edale for this project.’

Pictured (from left): Muhammad Khamboo, Faizal Khamboo & Anwer Khamboo from Flexible Packaging Industries alongside their recently installed Edale FL-3 press