With a rise in demand for diversity and higher security processes, South African based Morvest Mithratech saw an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage with the recent installation of a high specification Edale Gamma configured for scratch card production.
The ISO 9001:2008 approved printer is a subsidiary of the Morvest Business Group. ‘The fact that we are ISO accredited gives our customers peace of mind that the products we produce, and the procedures we are following are of world class standard,’ said Faheem Varachia, managing executive, Morvest Mithratech.
The company’s core business is offering secure print solutions for the telecommunications, banking and hospitality industries, and it is steadily growing into a leader in the field of security products. ‘The scratch card industry is a very niche and challenging market, but we have grown a very strong footprint in this market, specifically in Africa,’ continued Mr Varachia.
The decision to purchase the eight colour Edale Gamma 430 line was a natural progression in growing the business. Mr Varachia continued, ‘The ability for all printing and finishing operations to be produced in one operation gives Morvest Mithratech a tremendous technical advantage and commercial competitive edge in the market. We are now in a position to look for additional business in the same field as well as expansion into other areas.’
The fully servo driven Edale Gamma boasts web widths of 430 mm or 510 mm (Morvest Mithratech opted for 430 mm wide) and is capable of printing a variety of substrates from 12 micron unsupported film up to 600 micron carton board, at speeds of up to 200 mm per minute and has the capability to produce all formats of scratch card from single CR80 pin to multi pin cards and sheets.
Morvest Mithratech’s machine includes a large unwind with web cleaning, insetting for pre-printed webs, multiple flexo print stations with IR/Air and UV drying and combination drying for conventional printing, varnishing, scratch off ink printing, a personalisation unit with Domino inkjet heads as well as hot foiling, die cutting, perforating and sheeting finishing stations with reel to reel or reel to finished sheet production.
