The new Edale Gamma sits alongside the older Edale E430 machine in the factory at Halwani Brothers
Edale has announce the sale of a four colour 510 mm fully servo driven Gamma flexo printing press to a longstanding customer, Halwani Brothers, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Halwani Brothers are one of the best known food manufacturers in the Middle East, achieving large growth year on year; not only with food production but also the quality of the packaging. Due to its focus on packaging, more sophisticated equipment was needed to aid with the production, and when the company moved into its new factory in 2011, the decision was made to purchase a Gamma press. An older Edale model, an E430 press purchased many years ago, was still running production 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Gamma is a fully servo-driven printing and converting system combining finest print quality with innovative features ensuring high speed changeovers, minimum downtime and minimum wastage. The system features servo drives on each print head providing pre-register, auto-register and print length control features which, when combined with the revolutionary print head design, ensures job change times and setup wastage are kept to a minimum.
Mr Bhardawil, production director, said, ‘We found our existing Edale E430 machine to be a very reliable runner, but as our production needs became more demanding, we decided to invest in a more sophisticated press to meet demands and with that came our decision to purchase the Gamma. There was never any doubt that we would pick anything else when we visited the UK and saw a Gamma running in its production environment and were very impressed by the capabilities.’
During installation, the Edale engineer dismantled the E430 machine and reassembled it again in the new factory where the two now stand side by side, representing the Edale of old and the new 21st century company.
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