Aztech and Power Forward combine for ECL and coupon label equipment

Aztech Converting Systems of Tempe, Arizona, and Power Forward of Toronto, Canada, have formed a new venture that will manufacture and market a line of products to fill the growing need for cost effective and highly productive equipment for converters in the ECL (extended content leaflet) and coupon label market.

This will consist of the Aztech Servo Re Register DieMaster and the array of products offered by Power Forward, most notably the PF 200 and the Power Stick.

The project is aimed at giving converters producing value added labels and coupon/piggyback labels an accurate way of manufacturing ECL labels for the customers requiring them. It will also afford those converters farming out their work an easy way of bringing the work in-house and growing this portion of their business.

Traditionally this has been done by the interface of a new technology onsert unit being retro fitted onto an older piece of equipment. ‘The issue becomes a very costly endeavor due to the conflict of old and new capability being smashed together,’ said the company in a statement. ‘The usual result is that the older press will never hold the tolerances that the newer onserter is asking it to maintain as the booklet and the registration of the diecut need to be precise.’