UK-based Delta Packaging has announced that it will install Speedmaster XL 106-6LYYL press at Belfast retail packaging plant by the end of January 2013.
The new six-color press with double coating units is the company's fourth B1 litho press and an additional line.
Delta Packaging lithographic print manager Conor Connolly said the investment gives flexibility to the company to go out and find new business and create more employment
According to the company, the press has directly created six new jobs with further opportunities arising in other departments, such as the converting side which has added a die-cutter in readiness for the increased print throughput.
All four of the company's litho presses with the current fourth press, feature six printing units and double coaters with extended delivery, a flexible configuration which enables the company to use aqueous and/or UV coating, along with good gloss finishes, to handle low migration inks which require a longer drying time.
The presses run low alcohol and incorporate the use of low migration inks, an option which is ideal for food packaging which represents 85% of the company's sales.
