Positive ID Labels | 35Positive ID Labels adds Daco TD350P flexo pressUK converter installs fexo press with in-line fnishing and GEW LED curing. James Quirk reportsositive ID Labels has installed a TD350P 2-color fexo label press with in-line fnishing from Daco Solutions. The new system is the frst supplied by Daco with two integrated PGEW AeroLED curing units, as requested by the UK-based converter. The Daco TD350P allows automatic label production with little operator input. It has a high capacity U350L 1m (40in) unwind module to keep master roll changes to a minimum, while the SVT 4 spindle servo-driven turret rewinder offers quick changeover time. The press can be equipped with one or two servo-driven fexo print stations and the option to add a UV inkjet system for variable data. The machine is confgured with a servo-driven rotary die station. The Daco SVT turret rewind module uses a patented Positive ID Labels’ Daco TD350P fexo press with in-line fnishing double-sided tape system for attaching the web to the cores. The fnished rolls are closed using a label printed by an onboard thermal “The installation frees capacity transfer printer, eliminating the need for hotmelt gluing systems. The operator can select from either length or a given number on an MPS press, while LED curing of labels per roll, and the machine will then automatically cut and transfer the web to the cores without stopping.units from GEW require far less ‘It allows us to move simple label jobs that were previously printed on our 8-color MPS EB370 fexo press and fnished on a energy than the curing systems separate Daco slitter – a two-step process involving two operators – to the new Daco TD350P system, where a single operator on the MPS press”can print, rewind and box labels in one pass,’ says Danny Carr, production director at the Melbourne, Derbyshire-based converter. Alongside two Daco rewinders, and the in-line fnishing The installation has brought the added advantage of freeing up capabilities of the Jetrion and Mark Andy machines, is a GM DC330 capacity on the MPS EB370 for advanced jobs requiring additional Mini to convert labels printed on the Xeikon and Screen presses. colors, according to Carr, while the integrated LED curing units These are often craft beer or wine labels for the fast-growing local from GEW require far less energy than the curing systems on wine industry.the MPS press, helping the converter reduce costs and improve The converter began operations in 1997 with a single Mark Andy sustainability. 830 press and has expanded signifcantly over the years, aided Jamie Neill, GEW’s sales manager – UK & Ireland, says: ‘The by multiple acquisitions of fellow UK label converters, including installation of an AeroLED system for Positive ID Labels means Limbus Labels, Banbury Labels and Dabbon Labels. In 2014, it a reduction of up to 70 percent in energy use compared to a acquired Danro Labelling Systems and continues to sell its label conventional arc UV system. This not only reduces their energy guns, tooling and other equipment under the Danro name. costs but also allows them to offer a more sustainable product to their customers. Positive ID Labels also gain from having improved Long-standing relationshipprocess reliability, with predictable output for the duration of Positive ID Labels has a long-standing relationship with Daco the LEDs’ life as well as no lamps or mechanical parts within the Solutions. A table-top turret rewinder bought in 2007 is still in lamphead requiring change or maintenance.’ operation, while the converter runs two PLD rotary die-cutters with Around 20-30 percent of the work handled by the MPS press semi-automatic turret rewinders, with web widths of 250mm and can be moved across to the Daco TD350P, according to Danny 350mm respectively. ‘The relationship we have built with Daco Carr. ‘We can also move around half of our plain label work, which over the years means it was a natural progression to go back to was previously being done on a Daco semi-automatic turret, to them for the new machine,’ says Carr, who has worked at Positive the new system with its fully automatic turret. For the jobs we ID Labels for nearly 17 years. do on it currently, it halves the production time – if not more in ‘The beauty of Daco is the usability of their machines,’ he some cases.’ continues. ‘They all work in the same way, so an operator with Positive ID Labels serves the food, beverage and logistics minimal training can move from one machine to another with ease sectors in the UK, among a wide spread of markets which includes – the interface is the same, the operation is the same. chemical and automotive. It also produces price-marking labels ‘It’s a landmark installation for Daco, as the frst of our machines on a feet of four Mark Andy 830 presses. Two are equipped with to incorporate GEW’s LED curing systems,’ says Daco Solutions’ Arsoma turrets for in-line fnishing. sales manager Mark Laurence. Further fexo capacity is provided by the MPS EB370 and the new Daco TD350P. The converter also runs a Xeikon 3030 toner-based digital press, a Jetrion 4900 UV inkjet system with For more information, visit www.pid-labelling.co.uk laser die-cutting, and a Screen Truepress L350UV inkjet press. Oct - Dec 2023