Multi-Color orders second Omet press

After designing and installing a press that combines flexo and rotogravure print units – the first of its kind in the USA – Omet has secured an order for a second machine from one of America’s largest label converting groups, Multi-Color Corporation.

Multi-Color is one of the leading US suppliers to the label industry, producing work for over 330 of the best known brands across a wide sector of the global market. This includes labels for foodstuff and beverages, personal care and health and beauty, as well as household and automotive products.

Multi-Color installed an Omet VaryFlex machine, specially designed to combine flexo and rotogravure printing, at Multi-Color’s main production facility in Sharonville, Ohio, historically a wide web plant, earlier this year. The new Omet is not only the first narrow web press to be installed there, it is the first to be configured for flexo, gravure, screen, and foil platforms.

Already, a second combination VaryFlex line is under construction at Omet’s plant in Lecco, Italy.  It is scheduled for delivery to Multi-Color in February 2008.

Jack Mackert, Multi-Color's operational vice president, explained: 'Because the Omet has such precise register characteristics, the combination of different print technologies that can be interchanged anywhere in the press line, makes the VaryFlex unique in the world, and allows us to produce different and very high-definition products.'

Omet sales director Marco Calcagni commented: 'It is very satisfying to be chosen as a cooperative partner by such an important group on the world scene as Multi-Color, and particularly pleasing to secure a second order so soon after the first. I believe this indicates how well received Omet’s technology is becoming around the world.'