Prati to exhibit nine machines at Labelexpo

Prati will showcase its complete line of products for line-end label production and flexible packaging at Labelexpo Europe 2009 in a booth of 380 square meters. As well as exhibiting nine machines, Prati will provide news and display specific products for market segments such as the pharmaceutical, beverage and luxury sectors.

Introduced in hall 5, stand C60 will be the PH330 Pharmacheck, a modular control system, aimed at the pharmaceutical market, with video control cutting features that also integrates a double label inspection capacity. The PH330 Pharmacheck is said to significantly reduce material handling due to the fact that it doesn’t have a buffer like conventional technology. In addition, the machine ensures clean processing and accuracy in alignment and tension management, says the company.

The Vegaplus LF450 and LF530, pictured, will also be demonstrated for the first time at the show. Vegaplus technology can operate alongside paper and film webs up to widths of 450mm and 530mm in order to also meet the needs of the beverage market segment. The system is equipped with an unwinder, a die-cutting station in register for pre-printed labels, an inspection unit, and a glueless turret rewinder. Both systems are also able to integrate printing heads and additional finishing devices for a wider variety of applications.

Chiara Prati, sales manager, said: ‘At Labelexpo Europe, the most important meeting place for the label printing industry, we will be displaying the results of our intensive research that has seen us improve our products and look for advanced solutions in order to bring tangible business benefits to our clients. We will welcome converters from all over the world and show them the true evolution that has taken place in finishing as well as the systems that are designed to make narrow format print professionals increase their business profitability.’

Prati will also be exhibiting the Vegaplus LF330 booklet system for the off-line production of booklet labels. The system will feature an OS700 booklet feeder by Longford International, a hot-melt unit and a patented lamination unit. The system is aimed at the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and agri-chemical sector, but is also increasingly used in the food industry.
New inspection machines include the Jupiter TC450, designed to accommodate web widths up to 450mm. The Jupiter displays three different tension types for rewinding, making it suitable to all kinds of label materials and market segments.

The Jupiter TC280 UnivocalSign, designed for specialised narrow format applications, will show Labelexpo visitors the production of univocal labels for anti-counterfeiting applications, used mainly by luxury markets. This application originates from cooperation among four companies: Dacom, developing the UnivocalSign project; Ritrama, manufacturing a new substrate suitable to the scope; Prati and Etipack. The Jupiter TC280 will process labels and includes personalized unrepeatable identification by means of a Nikka video inspection system. The Jupiter technology will read, store and make the univocal data confidential before counting and rewinding the labels. Narrow format webs will be connected to the labeling machine, which is supplied by Etipack, for applying univocal labels to the final products and activating the data matrix.

Also on show will be the Saturn TE330, fully servo-motorized and equipped with a Nikka 100% inspection system, while a further launch at the event will be the Uranus TSIJ 180 insepction machine, which can be equipped with inkjet, Braille and drop on demand print heads for widths of up to 180mm. The machine is suitable for the overprinting and inspection of variable data.

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