Rotomec Open House at San Giorgio Monferrato

A slice of Italy’s converting valley

While covering the recent Grafitalia-Converflex-IpackIma exhibition in Milan, we had the opportunity to take part in the Rotomec Open House in the small nearby town of San Giorgio Monferrato. Just 90 minutes from the Fiera Milano, Rotomec is one of 150 equipment manufacturers with a turnover over of US$ 2.3 billion in 2008 in Italy’s “Converting Valley” – the Lombardia and Piemond region around Milan. Rotomec itself has a turnover of US$ 130 million. For us the visit was a good chance to spend time with some packaging converters from Africa and Latin America while learning about the 4004X gravure press with the new pre-registration cylinder system and the latest solvent-less laminator.

June 13, 2009 | By Ron Augustin and Naresh Khanna

Rotomec’s 9-colour RS 4004X gravure printing press equipped with the unique Total Automtic Pre-register Setting (TAPS) feature for automatic cylinder pre-register setting was demonstrated at the Open House to illustrate the latest advances aimed at successfully reducing waste in gravure printing. The RS 4004X gravure demonstration comprised printing two 6-colour jobs on PET substrates, with a change of colour on an off-line unit during printing, showing the gravure cylinder pre-washing sequence, a fully automatic splice, the automatic and simultaneous changeover of 6 trolleys, the replacement of the doctor blade holder and splash guards on two printing units.
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