Allied Packaging Corporation, one of the leading US suppliers of printed packaging across a variety of sectors, has installed two Mark Andy Evolution flexo presses at its production facility in Phoenix AZ, to boost the output of P/S and filmic labels.
Both presses are fitted with 40” (1000mm) unwind with closed-loop control and electronic web guiding, followed by a Vetaphone corona treater and Teknek web cleaner. To handle filmic substrates the presses have chilled impression rolls and are fitted with an overhead rail system for mounting turn bars, cold foil, and lamination capabilities. Each of the 10 print stations has recirculating hot air drying as well as full UV curing.
Capable of 750 ft/min (230 m/min) the servo-driven E5 features pre-register, auto-register and has VariPrint capability. Die cutting is by Mark Andy’s award-winning QCDC cassette system that allows die cylinders to be loaded and unloaded through the press side frame with the use of a trolley. It has an exit pacing head for constant tension control and the upper rewind is configured for low tension processing of thin films. Inspection is by a BST Powerscope vison system. For quick and accurate plate mounting, the presses were supplied with a Mark Andy VPM400 Video Plate Mounter.