Omet Partners with Clemson's Sonoco Institute

“Packaging is a $200 billion plus business in the United States, and Clemson has invested in this business knowledge base,” says Chip Tonkin, director of the institute. “In a collaborative effort, Clemson will conduct a holistic approach to packaging sciences, combining many academic disciplines, to learn how to best create packaging, how to print, fill, seal, ship and recycle, responsibly.”OMET has donated a new Varyflex press, a result of its new partnership with Clemson. The press will be used by students for R&D, industry activities and for OMET customer demonstrations. The narrow web press features seven printing stations, that can be configured with rotary screen, flexography or gravure with a variety of solvent-based, water-based and UV curable ink systems. The press platform can handle polymer substrates as then as 12 microns, or paperboard materials as heavy as 600 microns, while achieving high-end registration through a complete servo controlled system.