Omet to Unveil Varyflex V4 Offset at Open House

Packaging will be the main topic of the next open house organized by OMET, scheduled for March 20-21, 2017. The most important global players of the packaging sector will be welcomed at OMET headquarters in Lecco, Italy for the official presentation of the new Varyflex V4 Offset: the only solution in the entire mid-web market with fully automatic offset technology by sleeve, which assures extreme flexibility and user-friendly operations.

The flexible packaging market keeps on growing: particularly strong is the demand for hybrid technologies, able to satisfy not only the need for high printing quality but also the need for high-density color applications. The Varyflex V4 Offset can satisfy both of these requests thanks to the combination of high-quality offset technology and newly designed flexo stations.

This printing combination will be shown during the event, named "Your Passport to Packaging," in a live demonstration where the new 33"4/8-wide press, with maximum mechanical speed of 400 m/min, will highlight all its potentialities. The Offset group features sleeve technology, which allows a complete repeat changeover in few minutes, thanks to the Easy Sleeve Format Change and the automatic pressure adjustment system.

The Varyflex V4 Offset has been designed to print either with “Wet-On-Dry” configuration, mounting UV lamps in-between the printing stations, or “Wet-On-Wet” with UV drying or electron beam curing at the end of the line.

"We chose to show the electron beam curing system because we believe it can provide extreme drying efficacy in packaging printing production — especially with complex jobs and food packaging," Marco Calcagni, OMET commercial director. "The Varyflex V4 Offset is highly competitive in this ever-changing market where job runs are shorter and shorter and the alternative printing solutions, like rotogravure and CI flexo machines, add higher production costs to low flexibility and limited configurations."

OMET will give all the visitors the possibility to see the entire production site where they will be able to admire new innovative solutions and technologies, a result of the continuous investment in research and development, which has always been second nature to OMET.

The event is organized in partnership with ebeamTechnologies and Rossini Spa.

Source: OMET.