A special 12-unit Speedmaster XL 75 has just been installed at the Wauters Group's B Pack printing plant in Couches, Burgundy. This machine, custom-configured by the Heidelberg Group, should offer great flexibility to the company, which specializes in small and medium runs of luxury packaging.
The first delivery truck arrived on 25 March at the site, which employs 49 people and has a turnover of 10 million. And the first job could be produced on this new press as early as 15 May.
This new Speedmaster (an XL 75-2+LY-P-5+LYL) consists of two offset units, plus one drying unit, the perfecting unit, plus five offset units, plus one flexo unit, one drying unit plus one flexo unit. It is also equipped with an extended output.
Jérémy Desbois, head of printing at B Pack, explains : "This means that we are able to combine double-sided coating and inline printing in a single pass and offer our customers highly embellished luxury packaging with a range of coating effects" .
B.Pack can produce luxury folding boxes up to a thickness of 0.8 mm with a solid print on the back with, for example, two dark blue inks and a varnish coating, followed on the front by five colours with a glossy, matt or gold coating.
The machine can also be used to print an amalgam of packaging, for example for different perfume bottles, or for shower gel, deodorant and perfume of the same brand.
These packages are produced mainly for duty free shops at airports, where text must increasingly appear on the inside of the packaging.
