Mark Andy Expands Label Capacity

BASEL, Switzerland—Label converter Etiko has installed one of the latest Mark Andy LP3000 flexo lines in its all-new production plant near Szczecin, on Poland’s northwest border with Germany. The new LP3000 was supplied by Mark Andy AG in Switzerland. It is an eight-colour 13˝ (330 mm) full UV press, and it joins three multi colour Mark Andy Scout presses installed since 2001 largely to print thermo labels for the fresh food market.

In addition to its full UV curing system, the new Mark Andy is fitted with delam/relam, turner bars, motorized register control, a laminating station, an additional waste rewinder, and two screen cassettes, making it one of the most highly specified LP3000 lines in Europe, according to Mark Andy’s European Sales Manager Walter Eitner. The LP3000 is also fitted with Mark Andy’s own “Gizmo,” a simple but clever device for manufacturing multi-layer labels, and Etiko has already taken its first order for this type of work with recipe labels.