GAMA Group expands the portfolio of its viscometers

Two new viscometers have been added to the GAMA products portfolio for quality control of inks and adhesives.

Sante Conselvan - Gama International - with Julio Cezar - director at ABFLEXO.

The new products are: G31- a system for pH control, temperature and viscosity of water-based inks for corrugate market - and G32 for control and correction of water-based adhesives, varnishes and lacquers. The main feature - present in these products as well as in all GAMA systems - is the ability of automatically guaranteeing the correct quality of the ink during rotogravure or flexographic print-ing, in order to obtain the highest quality of the printed material at any printing speed.

Sante Conselvan, commercial director of GAMA International, with Gustavo Virginillo of Coras do Brasil, said: ‘Customers appreciate the new products, noting that the high quality features of GA-MA viscometers did not fail in these new process control solutions for inks, varnishes and water-based adhesives, widely used in food packaging applications.’

Thanks to the new products, GAMA International received the ‘Qualidade Flexo Prof. Sergio Vay’ award for the third consecutive year, in Brazil. The award, delivered during a ceremony held in Sep-tember. It is an important recognition for the Brazilian packaging industry, whose contest is orga-nized by ABFLEXO (Brazilian Technical Association of Flexography).