Brussels: Mouvent – a new joint venture from Bobst and Radex, made its official debut at Labelexpo Europe earlier today.
The new company which is a part of the Bobst Group revealed a range of digital label presses giving them a world premiere at the mega-show.
The new presses are two UV-bales label presses, the LB 701 UV mini label press and LB 702-UV label press. The third, LB702-WB is a water-based label press, that Mouvent said, is a game-changer in digital label production as it uses100% water-based Mouvent inks, making it 100% free of VOC and is also100% food safe.
All the three label printers are built in-house and can print seven colours on a variety of substrates like paper, self-adhesive and wet-glue labelstock and flexible materials. Using Samba printhead, the printers can fire at a resolution of 1200×1200 and optical 2000 dpi at a production speed of up to 100 m/min.
Speaking to the press here at the show Piero Pierantozzi, co-founder of Mouvent said, “Central to the digital innovation of these machines is the patented Mouvent Cluster, an ingenious digital printing technology based on a highly integrated cluster, which represents a quantum leap for the industry.
The Mouvent Cluster is the key technology behind the Mouvent machines, resulting in high optical resolution for a crisp, colourful, very high printing quality, as well as a never-seen-before flexibility and possibilities in terms of machine development. Simplicity is our engineering philosophy.”
The LB702-UV and LB702-WB will go to their beta sites for final pre-market testing in the coming weeks after the show.
“We are so excited to be able to share these machines with everyone at Labelexpo,” said Simon Rothen, CEO of Mouvent. “We believe we are at the start of something very special. Each one of these three machines represents a leap forward in its range, and together, they will take digital label printing to a whole new level. We look forward to bringing these to market as soon as we can so that people can benefit from this innovative technology.”