Mumbai head quartered UNIQUE PHOTO OFFSET SERVICES led by Gautam Nerker has installed their 3rd OMET X4 Label Press. Unique was founded by R V Nerker in 1960 as a pre-press house with a tradition for high quality digital imaging. The reigns of the company were handed over to son of the founder, Ashok Nerker who ventured into digital flexo prepress and later moved forward into flexo printing and offset printing. It is now the 3rd generation at Unique running the company. Ashok Nerker mentored his son Gautam to take charge, who now heads the company. The company already had two OMET label presses and they have reaffirmed their faith in the brand by investing in yet another OMET label press. Unique have pioneered in producing shrink sleeves on narrow web presses many years ago on their OMETs.
OMET is a fast growing family owned Group of five companies and manufacturing plants in Italy, with over 300 employees. In more than 55 years of existence OMET has installed machines in more than 100 countries, supplying innovative and customised solutions to leading printers of each country. The Packaging Printing Machines business unit of OMET is located in Lecco, Italy, 50 kilometers north of Milan. OMET’s packaging printing machines combine ease of use, low wastage levels, reliable non-stop operation and efficiency on short runs.
The Omet X4 installed at Unique is a 370mm wide press with 8colours, all UV, Chill Drums, two Corona treaters one before and one after printing before rewinding so that any variable data that needs to be overprinted can be done offline, a both side electrostatic web cleaner, Web Turn-bar, Delam-Relam, one die cutting station, two rewinders, Cold foiling option and fully automatic registration control. Gautam Nerker says, “Our experience with OMETs has been very good, it has helped us service the labels and shrink sleeves market with ease and efficiency. It is a very reliable equipment that has helped us grow. We are happy with the performance of the machines, after sales support and the high quality team present in India”.
The sale of this OMET X4 has been handled by OMET’s agent in India Weldon Celloplast Limited New Delhi. Weldon, established in 1982 and is now a total solutions supplier to the label industry representing some of the leading global brands offering label presses, Digital Presses, Tooling, Inspection Systems, allied consumables and equipment. Harveer Sahni, Chairman Weldon Celloplast says, “Unique is a very consistent quality printer with inherent strength in high quality pre-press.” He further states “Weldon is proud to have them as a very stable consistent and committed customer who delivers quality products converted on OMET presses”.
forrás: weldoncelloplast.com 2019.09.09
