Benny Landa, founder of Indigo and now chairman of Landa Group, has announced that his company's new Nano-Metallography technology innovation for the graphics metallisation will offer zero-waste metallisation, reducing costs by more than half compared to foil, once it is commercialised in 2017.
“Current metallisation processes are prohibitively expensive due to the high cost of foil and tremendous waste,” says Benny Landa.
“Our Nano-Metallography technology will enable metallisation at less than half the cost of foil, with zero-waste – and it's microwave compatible.
"We expect this technology to be available to customers in 2017.”
Landa says it's a quicker and simpler process compared to conventional foil process and will streamline the production of metallised print, improving customer profitability. It will be demonstrated on the Landa stand (hall 9) at drupa on a narrow-web label press.
Landa Nano-Metallography is operable with the full spectrum of conventional printing technologies, including narrow-web flexo, offset and screen for the production of labels, sheetfed offset for folding carton and commercial printing, web-offset for publishing and wide-web flexo and gravure for flexible packaging.
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
Landa has also announced it will unveil its new Landa W10 Nanographic Printing Press for flexible packaging at drupa 2016. The meter-wide (41 in.), high-speed web press prints up to 8 colours at 200 meters per minute (656 ft./min) on plastic packaging films, paper, carton board and aluminum foil.
“Fourteen years of nanotechnology research has enabled us to make tremendous breakthroughs in the quality, speed and cost of printing for flexible packaging,” says Benny Landa, who adds that he expects visitors to be “blown away by the amazing performance of this press”.
“Finally, there is a solution that meets the needs of the flexible packaging industry for affordable short-to-medium run lengths of highest gravure-quality packaging materials - with flexo-competitive costs and productivity,” he says.
The Landa W10 Nanographic Printing Press produces gravure quality printing - at production speeds - on a broad range of substrates from plastic packaging films to metal foils, from paper to carton.
In addition, the company will be showing its lineup of sheetfed Nanographic Printing Presses, including the Landa S10 for folding carton and POP and the Landa S10P perfecting press for commercial printing.
Landa will hold theatre presentations five times a day for the entire duration of the exhibition. Reservations for the theatre presentation can be requested in advance at www.landanano.com/drupa, or, subject to availability, may be booked at kiosks on the Landa stand (Hall 9) during the exhibition.