Van Genechten Packaging invests in fully automated offset press in France

Jul 02, 2012. /Lesprom Network/. Van Genechten Packaging underline their strategy in the premium packaging with their newest investment for a high performance Speedmaster XL 105-8+LYYLX3, a fully automated offset press from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the worldwide largest offset manufacturer. This investment will take place in the site of VG Angoulême (France), which is fully dedicated to the premium packaging market, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network. This sophisticated configuration XL 105-8+LYYLX3 consisting of 8 printing units and double coating units, full UV printing, automatic pile changing at feeder and deliverywill enable VG Angoulême to produce all kind of “value added” effects like gloss/mat varnishes, metallic/iriodin coatings and also print inline a high variety of ink and coating combinations with opaque white on aluminum coated cardboard. Since the Speedmaster XL 105 was launched at Drupa 2004, more than 1.150 presses of this class have been sold. Van Genechten Packaging is a group comprising of 10 folding carton factories in 7 countries, serving the European consumer goods industry with cardboard boxes, micro flute packaging and packaging systems.