Uteco Executive Outlook
Mario Mucciacciaro Executive Vice President
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The flexible packaging market is experiencing connuous growth and strength for 2018. The market
will connue to fuel this growth by upgrading obso lete equipment for more technologically advanced and efficient machinery. Uteco witnessed this first hand as sales goals were exceeded for 2017. Converters are asking for more automaon with quicker changeover features. Innovaon has always been a keypoint at Uteco, not only in the design and creaon of leadingedge equipment, but also with the ability to tailor machines to specific needs. We also see an increasing trend of Label Companies moving into the flexible packaging industry. These companies are looking to invest into midweb Cen tral Impression format instead of their tradional inline presses. We offer a wide range of products, from flexographic presses to Digital soluons, to ad dress our customer’s demands Are latest innovaons include two digital plat forms as well as a new mulprocess coang sys tem. The first model is the Gaia digital press. This flexible and easytouse EB inkjet digital printer was designed to print on flexible media. It can use inks of a different nature to beer meet the various market needs, including EB curing technology. This gives the ability to safely deal with the food packag ing and pharmaceucal markets thanks to the re cent low and zero migraons inks, ensuring the lowest environmental impacts. We can deliver high definion print quality & resoluon of 1200 x 1200 bpi with speed over 325 /min on film substrates of widths up to 36 Inches. Uteco has also introduced a second digital plat form called the Evo Saphire. This is the ideal soluon for “producon digital” related to short and medium
Uteco Gaia Press.
pressing the print buon. This plaorm also allows for tailored hybrid configuraon with inline flexo/gravure prinng, varnish and or laminaon. Stream Inkjet waterbased Technology produces a connuous flow of ink with uniform dot size and ac curate dot placement, regardless of coverage, sub
strate, and even speed. This technology can be used in a vari ety of prinng applicaons from, flexible packaging, Tag & Label, and Folding carton segments. The latest coating and laminat ing system is the Mistral product line. This line was introduced as a
modern & compact design to marry any or all of the various laminating and coating technologies. The Mistral line has the ability to run solvent lami nation, solventless lamination, inregister cold seal application and gravure printing or varnish. What is truly unique about the Mistral MV is the ability to apply at full speed inregister matte varnish ap plications with solventless lamination, all in one single pass. Our industry forecasts reflect connued growth for the next several years. Uteco will connue to focus on the latest innovaons and industry de mands and allocate resources appropriately as a worldwide leader in flexible packaging equipment. Uteco feels that innovaon is the key to becoming a market leader.
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