92 | Conventional printingNews in Brief“ THAT INFORMATION IS Berkshire Labels sets records CRITICAL TO BUSINESS after Mark Andy installationOWNERS AND PRESS UK-based narrow web converters, Berkshire Labels, has added another Mark Andy fexo press to its production facility OPERATORS. THEY’RE NOT in Hungerford. The new Performance Series P7E is the latest of fve Mark SHOOTING BLIND. THEY Andy presses onsite, which include an earlier Performance P7E and a P9E that is dedicated to flmic production. Two months ACCURATELY COLLECT after the new press went into production, Berkshire Labels recorded its highest-ever monthly sales fgure.DATA IN REAL TIME AND Managing director Paul Roscoe said: ‘We commit at least 10 percent of our annual turnover to investment in the latest REACT IN REAL-TIME. SHOP technology and this has served us well in both growing and FLOORS TODAY HAVE TO strengthening the business. Our frst Performance Series P7E was transformational in terms of production effciency and BE MAXIMALLY the Performance Series P9E moved the game on even further. Having settled on the 430mm web width as the best ft for EFFICIENT our product portfolio, we now have three of Mark Andy’s Performance Series that we can dedicate to different work, and WITH AS FEW this is real plus for production effciency.’Mark Andy’s Performance Series is the fastest-selling PEOPLE AS platform in narrow web history with more than 1,200 presses installed worldwide. POSSIBLEmarket has witnessed in recent years, SKUs are getting shorter – far Auroflex installs Nilpeter too short to make fnancial sense on the wide web CI fexo and gravure presses on which fexible packaging is commonly printed. A MO-Line Fusion pressfexo or digital label converter is well-positioned to cater to shorter Southern Italian luxury label manufacturer, Aurofex, lead times and smaller runs and widen their portfolio offering.has acquired Nilpeter MO-Line Fusion press to help its Typically, what is considered a short-run job in the fexible customers to compete in international markets. The new packaging world might actually be a medium run for a label Nilpeter MO-Line Fusion is its fourth press from the Danish converter, which is another factor that makes the mid-range fexo manufacturer. press format work. That, in turn, would suggest it makes sense for ‘It is the most advanced press we have acquired so far label converters to consider both mid-web fexo and digital for in a collaboration that began more than 20 years ago, and fexible packaging to cover the full range of what a fex pack buyer which has brought many eloquent and mutual successes might consider a short run. to our companies,’ said Fabio Butera, chairman of Aurofex. Emerging brands and start-ups are ripe for opportunities for ‘Aurofex is committed to providing ever-increasing quality fexible packaging, as oftentimes they are experimenting with to both current and future customers - the market in which versioning and new packaging formats.we operate stimulates competition and we want to raise ‘Narrower and mid-web conventional and digital printing the bar and put our customers in a position to compete in has effectively opened up the market to a whole range of new international markets. In that sense, it is no coincidence that customers who have never previously had a solution for short-run our new MO-Line Fusion is a mixed media printing system fexible packaging orders,’ writes Mike Fairley in the Label equipped with all the most advanced printing, regulation, and Academy book on fexible packaging. ‘Label converters entering control technologies.’ the fexible packaging market are particularly fnding new business It is a custom-made combination press with a host of opportunities with the independent and more regional brands, analog and digital embellishment technologies inline for helping these smaller and medium-sized company buyers to high-volume or short-run markets. simplify how they buy their fexible packaging, and guiding them in understanding the specifcations, tolerances, materials, origination, color technology, inks, and print requirements.’Gallus launches digital press at Conventional OEMs are listening, and as a result, fexo presses Labelexpo Americas 2022are getting wider. Today’s standard press from the likes of Mark Andy and Nilpeter are 17 inches and up. Nilpeter has seen success Gallus launched Gallus One, a digital label printing system for with its FA-26, and likewise Lombardi with its full-servo Invicta the growth segment of label printing.630; Omet with its X7; Bobst with its M5. MPS’ EF presses go up Gallus One is based on the Labelmaster press platform. As to 22 inches, with a portfolio that offers wider options. a reel-to-reel UV inkjet digital in-line label press, it offers a Labelexpo Europe 2023 will be home to many of these width of 340mm, a resolution of 1,200 DPI, four colors plus machines, as fexible packaging is expected to take center stage. white, and a print speed of up to 70 m/min. Gallus One can be fully integrated into the Prinect workfow from Heidelberg. ‘Digital printing is and will remain a key technology for Heidelberg. The new Gallus One is further proof of this,’ said Conventional press manufacturers will return to Labelexpo Dr Ludwin Monz, CEO of Heidelberg. Europe 2023 from Sept 11-14 in Brussels. For more information visit www.labelexpo-europe.comlabelsandlabeling.com