UV Graphics launches digital finishing, sets up two new plants

2022-11-14 14:02:57 By : Ms. Shar Cheng

To be present at Label Expo – Hall 3 Stand F15, 17 & 19

We recently visited UV Graphics, a leading manufacturer of UV curing systems, printing, and allied machinery. UV Graphics manufactures several machines that are used in label printing, finishing, and converting, such as narrow web flexo presses, rotogravure machines, combination presses (flexo+offset/gravure), slitter rewinders, digital finishing machines, die-cutting, semi-rotary printing and die-cutting, and flatbed die-cutting machines.  Flat Silicone Label

UV Graphics launches digital finishing, sets up two new plants

The company recently manufactured a digital printing and finishing hybrid printing press with four flexo stations, a 7-color inkjet, and a 2-color embellishment system for digital finishing, which it will launch in Labelexpo India in 2022. This machine produces all kinds of labels, on paper and film face stocks and sleeves, shrink, in-mold, heat transfer, and wet-glue labels. It can produce high-quality labels for FMCG, pharma, liquor, cosmetics, electronics, and other requirements.

Abhay Datta, director of U V Graphics, says, “Today, we are recognized as a number one company for the quality flexo label presses in India. We are the first Indian company to export 10-color flexo machines to North America and have supplied some of our machines to some European countries. The 10-color flexo machine is the first Indian machine to enter America. Flexible packaging companies are now moving with narrow web flexo machines for medium and short-run jobs. And I have converted several gravure printers who have bought flexo machines from us. In April 2022, we entered the digital market by introducing our digital press, which will be launched at Labelexpo India 2022.”

“We have established two new factories in Noida near the main plant – one is ready, and another will be ready by the end of this year. The purpose was to expand the product portfolio and the area we need to increase productivity because we are getting many orders. We are adding more innovative machines to our offerings, such as high-speed die-cutting and hot-foil stamping machines.”

At Labelexpo India 2022, UV Graphics will be showcasing its two Vetaphone VE-A 520 models on its narrow web Ultraflex flexo line and two VE-A 460 models on its Ultraflex hybrid line and its digital finishing machine. All the Vetaphone corona treaters at Labelexpo India have intelligent 2KW Vetaphone iCorona generators and are fitted with four ceramic electrodes in each unit.

Datta concludes by saying, “Our expectation for Labelexpo India 2022 is to meet with customers, show them our equipment and interact with them. The last Labelexpo India in 2018 was a fantastic show for us. We received six to seven orders during the exhibition, and we hope this year’s event will be a great exhibition for us.”

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.

The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.

Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.

As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.

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UV Graphics launches digital finishing, sets up two new plants

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