Further Nilpeter Capacity for Macfarlane in Scotland

KILMARNOCK, Scotland—Macfarlane Labels recently commissioned a Nilpeter FA-4 UV-flexo combination press with 10 colour units to meet a growing sales demand. It increases the capacity of the company’s principal plant in Kilmarnock, Scotland, where production is centred on about a dozen narrow web combination presses. These include two Nilpeter MO-3300 offset presses printing up to 8 colours and several Nilpeter UV-flexo presses. The latest press has a web width of 420 mm (16.5 inches), direct servo drives, and incorporates Nilpeter’s recently introduced sleeve/plate technology.

The company is part of the Macfarlane Group, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of PSA labels and packaging for consumer products. Its labelling division also includes a production plant in Dublin and a Re-seal It office in Helsingborg, Sweden. The main output is PSA paper and filmic labels for the food, health care, toiletries, pharmaceutical, household products, beverages and industrial sectors. Kilmarnock also has a dedicated unit producing pharmaceutical labels. They are served by in-house studio, origination and digital plate making facilities.

Macfarlane Labels also manufactures Re-seal It, a branded and patented selection of resealable multiply labels. They are said to offer easy opening and repeatable resealability, to maintain optimum shelf life of the product. They are sold in many parts of the world, with the USA as a target market.

In its last interim report for the 6 month period to 30th June 2007, Macfarlane Group posted consolidated sales of £57.40 million (Euro 82.26 million, $199.17 million), up 12 percent from the corresponding six-month period in 2006.