GIDUE’s Digital Flexo Excellence Project was presented with the Flexographic Technical Association’s (FTA’s) Technical Innovation Award for 2015 on 3 May at the Annual Awards Banquet at the Omni Nashville Broadway Ballroom.
Digital Flexo Excellence Project is a system to make the workflow, set-up and run of a flexographic press “fully automated and digital”, said GIDUE. Presses with the system are designed to deliver high productivity and lower costs reduction along with flexibility and consistent quality plus “digital” efficiency, repeatability and ease of operation.
GIDUE President Federico d’Annunzio said the company is “honoured” by being awarded “such a world-recognised prize”.
“This award is a further incentive for GIDUE to continue developing new technologies for the benefit of the labels and packaging industry,” he said.
In the Digital Flexo Excellence Project, print and die-cutting cylinders are exchanged non-stop, on-the-fly, fully automatically without stopping the press.
A digital camera and eight servo motors on each print unit substitute the eyes and the fingers of the operator with digital eyes and digital fingers, performing fully automated print pressure and register control.
With faster changeover times, higher press up-time, and minimum waste, it projects flexo into a new era in the label and packaging industry, challenging digital printing on quality, efficiency and profitability also in micro and short runs.
Managing Director Matteo Cardinotti said the award represents a great opportunity for GIDUE to strengthen and consolidate its role as innovative manufacturer company, also in the North American market.
“This system of technologies introduced by GIDUE has been developed to grant converters high profits and extreme flexibility and we believe that it will increase the manufacturing efficiency of many labels and packaging converters not just in USA but worldwide,” he said.
Founded in 1958, the FTA is the world’s leading professional society dedicated to the advancement of the flexographic printing industry.