Xeikon will be showcasing a host of
innovative technologies for its first time attendance at Salon de l’Emballage
2014. Located on stand 6 E 110, the company will demonstrate its enhanced
Folding Carton Suite along with its recently launched Web Varnishing Module.
The company will also be cooperating with partners Zünd, CERM and customers
Imprimerie Bouley and 5Sept Etiquette to present a wide range of applications
specifically developed to address the changing needs of brand owners and
packaging converters. The Salon de l’Emballage is taking place November 17 to
20 at Paris Nord Villepinte.
“Over the past few years our portfolio of
digital solutions for labels and packaging has significantly increased, and we
encourage converters and brand owners alike to come check out what we have on
display at Emballage. We will be thrilled to meet up with them and engage in
some insightful conversations,” comments Filip Weymans, Director Segment
Marketing and Business Development Labels & Packaging at Xeikon.
Enhanced
Folding Carton Suite
At the show, Xeikon will be showing its
enhanced Folding Carton Suite that now offers a basic press configuration where
the print stations are equipped with orange toner, in combination with CMYK.
The extended color gamut achieved with this configuration ensures the accurate
production of a wider range of brand colors. Producing folding cartons
digitally is perfect for specific seasonal packaging, intensive test marketing,
just-in-time delivery contracts and customization of shorter runs and appeals
to smaller geographic and demographic market segments. With the Folding Carton
Suite, Xeikon offers a ready-to-use package, making it easy for customers to
configure an efficient and cost-effective set-up for the digital production of
folding cartons. It is the ideal solution for packaging converters who need to
add high quality cost-effective short runs of folding cartons to their mix of
offerings as well as for commercial printers looking to enter the packaging
market.
“Our strategy is to pursue growth in the
folding carton market and we are thrilled at being able to demonstrate for the
first time the continuous enhancements we have made to the Xeikon Folding
Carton Suite at Emballage 2014 in Paris,” says Weymans. Eager to provide the
best end-to-end digital printing solutions to the market, and address the
changing needs of brand owners and packaging converters, our Folding Carton
Suite allows them to digitally produce the same high quality packaging but for
a whole range of new applications, allowing them to build new revenue streams
with higher profit margins.”
Compact
inline varnishing module for major productivity and improved optimization
At Labelexpo Americas earlier this year,
Xeikon expanded the inline finishing options available for its digital presses
with the launch of the Web Varnishing Module. This extremely versatile unit can
apply UV or aqueous varnish on one side of a wide range of substrates making
the module the perfect fit for folding cartons, which require varnish-free
areas for glue strips and production data. The module is also an extremely
compact solution to apply spot varnish on a large variety of substrates
including self-adhesive label materials, coated papers, unsupported films and
coated paper board. The new inline module enables the operator to see the
results immediately and to make any corrections, if required, in order to
achieve the desired effect. This eliminates the high expense and job delays
when varnishing is done off-line and the entire job has to be reprinted if the
end result is not acceptable. Finally, the Web Varnishing Module is an
important addition to the Xeikon Suites, enabling further optimization of the
processes and workflows used by printers and converters. At Emballage 2014, the
Web Varnishing Module will run inline with the Xeikon 3050 Digital Press, fully
equipped with unwinder and in a roll-to-sheet configuration.
Close partnerships and cooperations
At Emballage, Xeikon will also be printing
wet-glue wine and champagne labels in cooperation with its customer, Imprimerie
Bouley, a family-run label converter located in the heart of Burgundy that
specializes in wine, spirit and beverage labels. With ever shorter print runs
and delivery requirements, Imprimerie Bouley switched from offset to digital
beginning 2013 and opted for a Xeikon 3030 Digital Press – upgraded now to a
Xeikon 3300 – and the results have been outstanding. The benefits of wet-glue
labels include high quality graphics, high speed applications and volume runs
and the ease of label removal on returnable containers.
On display will also the very popular Clics
Boxes from Belgian toy manufacturer Clics. These folding carton toy boxes can
be customized with photos and text, making an original gift for kids. They will
be produced by a folding carton suite powered by a Xeikon Digital Press and
finished by digital cutting specialist Zünd.
Finally, Aura Partner CERM, a solution
provider in business management and automation solutions for the labels and
printing industry will also display an offline Xeikon X-800 Digital Front-End
and integrated workflow configuration with MIS system while French customer
5Sept Etiquette will showcase to attending visitors samples printed on its
Xeikon 3300 Digital Label Press, acquired last year.
