Hotpack Global has acquired a Comexi F2 MB flexographic printing press and a Comexi SL2 Evolution laminator with Synaptic Closed Loop.
The compact solventless laminator minimises the amount of adhesive used, reduced machine downtime to almost zeo and fixes quality issues.
Oriol Rabert, area manager for Comexi, said, ‘This is a very important operation for both parties. Ultimately, cost is reduced, and productivity is increased, as every reel is accepted. This translates into satisfied customers.’
The SL2 Evolution features strip lamination for the creation of windows that allow the encased product to be seen. The agreement, the first between the two companies, was signed between Manel Xifra, president of Comexi, and Abdul Jebbar, group managing director of Hotpack Global.
It was conceived at the ArabPlast trade fair, which was held last November in Dubai. Founded in 1995, Hotpack Global offers complete range of sustainable food packaging solutions to the foodservice and hospitality industries.
The group has branches all over the Middle East, UK, USA, Australia, and many regions of Africa, and exports spanning over 100 countries. Hotpack’s food packaging products include environmentally friendly kraft boxes, trays, paper bags, paper cups, takeaway containers, aluminum foil, and flexible packaging products, PET recyclable bakery containers, salad bowls, juice cups, facial tissues, napkins, kitchen rolls, and toilet rolls.
According to the company, the Comexi F2 MB machine is the ideal machine for the combination of short and medium runs and processing a full range of flexible packaging applications.
The F2 MB features GeniusTech to assist printers in conquering challenges such as a lack of skilled operators, job length reduction, and an increased number of job changes, among others. High importance has been given to products that focus on providing speedy job changeover, which include: the GeniusFlow for rapid cleaning, automatic set up solutions GeniusSet and GeniusReg to shorten time and minimize waste; or GeniusDatato shorten the start-up of a new job because the parameters of an existing job can be stored and reused.
