Regulars / Q&A | 53“It’s not just that it’s digital technology, but that David Richards bioDavid Richards joined the label it’s HP Indigo technology. It has been fantastic industry in 1998, starting in the raw for us”materials supply chain selling for self-adhesive manufacturer Jackstaedt sustainability benefts. We’re not buying lots peel and read labels, but it’s in Mandarin. (JAC UK). When Avery acquired JAC, of copper and brass blocks anymore because My operators don’t speak Mandarin and a he moved into more technical roles we don’t need them. There are no plates. small change to a symbol might change the working with customers to modify It has made a real change to the way we meaning of the word completely. That gives existing products but also create think. We can say to customers: you can have you an example of how it’s not just a simple innovative PSA products for the any color you want, anywhere on the label, peel and read – some of it is getting much market. A short stint at Intercoat was and you can have it on clear. more complicated and the demand to meet followed by eight years as general the quality is growing and the expectations manager of UK converter Baker L&L: Flexo remains an important part are higher.Self-Adhesive Label Co before joining of your business. What work do you Amberley Labels as commercial and produce on your fexo press? L&L: What area of technology are you technical manager as part of a new DR: On our Edale FL-3 press the vast likely to invest in next?management team. He was also the majority of work is peel and read labels DR: Pre-acquisition, we would have been company’s business development for cosmetics. And we make some special looking at a hybrid press. But the Amberley manager before being appointed constructions where we’re printing full-color site in Boston has installed an MPS Symjet managing director in 2019.on the adhesive side. press with the Domino inkjet unit, so now But mainly it is peel and read labels that we have that in the group, it’s fantastic. Indigo and after printing the roll goes onto a all day long. What has changed is that so And they also invested in the Pantec Rhino Digicon Lite and just gets fnished. Whereas many people are trying to cram so much foiling system, so when you combine that before, that would have to then come off more information onto labels, and often with the Kurz DM-Jetliner at Amberley and go onto a fatbed. We literally have one in multiple languages. Something we are Blandford, we’ve got everything covered silver foil and a few other colors, but we are involved in at the moment is the Cosmetics from multiple hot foil to digital cold foil. creating all our own colors now, so we don’t Supervision and Administration Regulation The technology between the two sites need hundreds of different foils. That has in China. They are going to add more text to is complementary in that respect. That’s NEXT-GENERATION SYNTHETIC PAPER BY YUPOWE MAY BE TOUGH ON PAPER, BUT WE’RE GENTLE ON THE EARTH:The newly launched YUPO ARS is the latest generation of YUPO self-adhesive facestock that provides the ideal balance of YUPO’s excellent printability and durability, and a conscious and signifcant reduction of plastic resin used during its production.As a global leading producer of synthetic papers YUPO strives to continuously design products that target current environmental and societal concerns. And we believe that sometimes less can indeed be more.LACSYSC EMREMRBEYUPO SYNTHETIC PAPER PREMIUM SYNTHETIC SUBSTRATES PRINT | PACKAGE | LABEL | DESIGN WWW.YUPO.EU YUPO EUROPE GMBH0180_0375_Magazin L+L IML_Anzeigen 2.indd 1 0180_0375_Magazin L+L IML_Anzeigen 2.indd 1 17.05.22 15:4717.05.22 15:47Apr - Jun 2022