Peruvian packaging business Trupal recently purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 Plus, an industrial digital corrugated printer delivering high-volume, single-pass direct-to-board inkjet printing, from Electronics For Imaging, Inc.
The company, headquartered in Lima, will be the first in Latin America to install Nozomi technology. Trupal will also be one of the first in the world to install the newly introduced Nozomi C18000 Plus model.
“One of the aspects of the equipment that caught our attention was the variety of colors available. With its high speed, our aim is to achieve a 25% to 35% ROI,” said Leandro Mariátegui Cáceres, Trupal’s GM.
During the pandemic, there has been a significant increase worldwide in the output registered by Nozomi users.
“Nozomi users have recorded a 41% average increase in production year over year on their printers, a figure that is five times higher than users’ overall 8% rate of growth,” said Evandro Matteucci, GM and VP of Building Materials and Packaging, EFI.
Inkjet printing technology is one of the fastest-growing segments in a strong corrugated packaging market that, according to research company Smithers, is growing 3.7% annually toward a projected $300 billion in total market value by 2023.
With this installation, the company will widen its presence in export packaging for popular, nutrient-dense agro-industrial products – commonly known as Super Foods – popular in Europe. These include tropical fruits such as mangoes, blueberries, avocados, oranges, lemons and tangerines among others.