Labelexpo Day 1: Nilpeter promotes FA presses to ANZ

The Nilpeter stand had a pair of the company’s FA flexo presses on the floor – a 17” model and the 22” version – and the manufacturer is pitching them to the Australian and New Zealand markets.

According to sales director Erik Blankenstein, the presses are “aimed at high quality print applications found in Australia and New Zealand.”

Blankenstein pointed to the one-piece frame as indicative of the quality of build of the Danish manufactured presses.

“The FA Nilpeter systems will produce premium print quality for wine labels and the like. They are manufactured to exacting standards, and that is why they are able to print to such a consistently high level. Some 80 per cent of parts are manufactured by us in-house,” he said.

The FA presses have no offsite component, with the company’s MO presses having that capability, along with flexo, screen and gravure.

Blankenstein said, “These are top of the line presses, which along with their engineering excellence have a high level of automation. Each print unit has seven motors, with three servo motors. They are designed to offer every possible assistance to the operator, and to win back work from digital, as well as produce medium and long run jobs.”

According to Blankenstein, run lengths as low as 800 linear metres are now cost effective with the FA presses. He said, “Three years ago you would be looking at 2000 linear metres or more as the break-even point – Nilpeter has turned that on its head.”