California based flexible packaging manufacturer Signature Flexible Packaging has selected KBA-Flexotecnica to deliver an EVO XD 10-color press at Los Angeles facility.
The KBA-Flexotecnica's second 10-color gearless, sleeved, central impression flexo printing press is planned to be installed at one of Signature Flexible Packaging's facilities in the Los Angeles.
Signature president Adrian Backer said that the flexo printing press is intended to meet the firm's growth and much-needed extra capacity.
The company is already operating the first KBA-Flexotecnica EVO XD press, which was installed it in April 2014.
Backer added: "It is being used as our principal press for all of our products, but primarily for our high-end process work.
"Almost from the start, the EVO XD has been producing a clear majority of our printed products. In the last 12 months it has produced 73% of our total print production among three presses."
"We feel that the new incoming EVO XD will nicely work in tandem with the existing EVO XD press."
Featuring raft of new technology, the two Flexotecnica EVO XD 10-color presses at Signature are expected to increase turnaround time and reduce costs.
The press also features time-saving components such as the Speedy Clean automatic wash-up system and in-line viscosity control with InkSpec viscometers, auto-impression setting, and click-and-drag zero-waste registration.
It also features with numerous quality control options such as a 100% inspection camera and in-line color control.
Backer said: "Our first EVO XD was configured with 10 units to give us more options on difficult jobs, and, when running jobs of five colors or less back-to-back to have the cylinders for the second job in press. The second EVO XD is configured the same way to give us maximum flexibility."
Signature will use the EVO XD press to print thin-gauge plastic film such as oriented polypropylene and oriented polyester.
Image: Signature Flexible Packaging president Adrian Backer. Photo: courtesy of Koenig & Bauer AG.