Increased demand for high quality, eight-colour printed graphics on fresh food packaging has led to the installation of a new wide web flexographic press to expand capacity at the Integrated Packaging Group flexible packaging business formerly known as Poly Products. PKN reports.
The Poly Products business was purchased by Pro-Pac Packaging (PPG) in 2013. PPG acquired Integrated Packaging (IPG) in October last year, and subsequently Poly Products has been absorbed into IPG, fitting neatly into the flexible packaging manufacturing side of the business.
The company has recently installed a new Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) Miraflex II AM 8 (8-colour) wide web flexographic press at its Regency Park plant in Adelaide.
This is the second W&H press at the facility, the first installed over a decade ago.
The Regency Park facility specialises in blown film extrusion, flexographic printing and converting of flexible packaging, predominantly servicing fresh food markets.
Presentation of fresh food on supermarket shelves has evolved from two colour generic images and limited packaging typical of the late 1990s to the now popular convenience packs most requiring up to eight colour designs, based on retailers’ self-generated art files.
This shift occurred in the early 2000s, and saw most flexible packaging converters investing in 8- 10 colour printing capability at that time.
Poly Products was among them, and the company installed a W&H Primaflex 8-colour wide web gearless press in order to remain competitive and maintain its customer base.
