
Packaging major, Uflex, conducted an open house at its Engineering Division on 6 December 2019. Uflex invited potential customers from Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Turkey to witness a live demonstration of its 4-color rotogravure press ‒ the Rotoflex Stanmas 20 ‒ that Uflex has designed to print on aluminum foil. Uflex developed this press with technical inputs from MRG Graphomac based in Italy. While the new Rotoflex Stanmas 20 can ideally run aluminum foil at 150 meters a minute, it can print on PE and BOPP at 200 meters per minute (mpm). The current variant of the 4-color press is equipped with unwinder and rewinder and prints with solvent-based inks. However, Uflex confirmed that in the future, it would develop newer options of this press that may print foil at 200 mpm and support water-based inks as well. Unique tension control system to print on foil “Though the press can print on various substrates, we have made special adjustments in tension control systems to ensure the press is better equipped to handle foil. The…
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