06.20.16
Alongside numerous sheetfed offset, commercial and newspaper press installations, Koenig & Bauer Group (KBA) now is expanding its footing with CI flexo web presses for flexible packaging in Australia and New Zealand. Subsidiary KBA Australasia signed a corresponding sales and service agreement with KBA-Flexotecnica in Italy during drupa.
“Services for existing flexo customers are thus secured and we are able to strengthen our position in this growth market considerably. We have gained an experienced sales manager for the cutting-edge presses from KBA-Flexotecnica with Peter Stewart,” said Dave Lewis, GM of KBA Australasia.
“With his longstanding experience and his contacts in the flexible packaging market, Peter Stewart will help us reach our ambitious targets,” added Claudio Bisogni, managing director of KBA Flexotecnica. The Italian KBA subsidiary based in Tavazzano, near Milan, develops and produces modern CI flexo web presses for printing on paper, film and other flexible packaging materials.
With a global annual growth rate of 4% to 5% flexible packaging produced predominantly with flexo and gravure is the highest growing packaging segment. There have been huge advancements in the quality achieved with cutting-edge flexo presses through progress in prepress, printing formes (blocks, sleeves) and color management in recent years. The same is true of the increasingly more popular topics of environmental friendliness and the use of low-migration/migration-free inks. Here flexo has clear advantages over gravure through its lower usage of solvents and a new generation of water-based or radiation-curing inks for non-absorbent substrates.
KBA-Flexotecnica demonstrated outstanding print quality and sustainability with water-based inks at drupa with the new CI flexo web press, the NEO XD LR. The hybrid press is engineered for handling water-based and solvent-based inks as well as radiation-curing UV-LED and EB ink systems.
The NEO XD is suited to printing various run lengths and printing on film, paper and board with up to 12 print decks, print lengths up to 1,200mm (47in), print widths up to 1,650mm (65in), speeds up to 55m/min (1,640ft/min) and a new dryer generation. It features cutting-edge technology when it comes to automation for fast job changes. Ease of operation and maintenance has also been improved compared to the previous press generation.
“Services for existing flexo customers are thus secured and we are able to strengthen our position in this growth market considerably. We have gained an experienced sales manager for the cutting-edge presses from KBA-Flexotecnica with Peter Stewart,” said Dave Lewis, GM of KBA Australasia.
“With his longstanding experience and his contacts in the flexible packaging market, Peter Stewart will help us reach our ambitious targets,” added Claudio Bisogni, managing director of KBA Flexotecnica. The Italian KBA subsidiary based in Tavazzano, near Milan, develops and produces modern CI flexo web presses for printing on paper, film and other flexible packaging materials.
With a global annual growth rate of 4% to 5% flexible packaging produced predominantly with flexo and gravure is the highest growing packaging segment. There have been huge advancements in the quality achieved with cutting-edge flexo presses through progress in prepress, printing formes (blocks, sleeves) and color management in recent years. The same is true of the increasingly more popular topics of environmental friendliness and the use of low-migration/migration-free inks. Here flexo has clear advantages over gravure through its lower usage of solvents and a new generation of water-based or radiation-curing inks for non-absorbent substrates.
KBA-Flexotecnica demonstrated outstanding print quality and sustainability with water-based inks at drupa with the new CI flexo web press, the NEO XD LR. The hybrid press is engineered for handling water-based and solvent-based inks as well as radiation-curing UV-LED and EB ink systems.
The NEO XD is suited to printing various run lengths and printing on film, paper and board with up to 12 print decks, print lengths up to 1,200mm (47in), print widths up to 1,650mm (65in), speeds up to 55m/min (1,640ft/min) and a new dryer generation. It features cutting-edge technology when it comes to automation for fast job changes. Ease of operation and maintenance has also been improved compared to the previous press generation.