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PACKAGING NEWS

Epson’s HQ centers on IN BRIEF

Rotometal, a producer of
magnetic and print cylinders
sustainability for printing machines, has
introduced aluminum mag-
netic cylinders. According to
Rotometal, these light-
weight cylinders have been
designed with customer
Epson is hosting a ribbon- expectations in mind, offer-
cutting ceremony for its new ing an easier-to-assemble
headquarters in Los product without compromising stability and safety during
Alamitos, California. This operation. Made of aluminium alloy, these magnetic
cylinders offer better product quality, simpler storage and
event marks Epson's support easier assembly and disassembly. The cylinder body is
of and involvement in the constructed of corrosion-resistant hard aluminium,
community and its focus on ensuring extended service life due to its raceways and
axles being hardened to over 62 ± 2HRC. Precise work-
reducing environmental manship ensures an axial runout accuracy of -0.01mm
impacts, improving work New HQ integrates sustainability-focused architecture and a cylinder gap of 0.003mm. The use of special ferrite
environments and enriching magnets in these cylinders results in high die adhesion,
lives by connecting people, designed to meet the needs of and community members to with the option to use neodymium magnets for increased
attraction strength. Furthermore, the auxiliary line on
things and information with Epson America's purpose- interface with its technolo- the cylinder body facilitates die assembly, and pins can
Epson technologies. driven mission. It reflects the gies and conduct business. be used for positioning the die. The multi-stage produc-
The ceremony will feature Epson 25 renewed corporate Additionally, Epson and its tion process eliminates glue emergence issues, and cylin-
remarks from elected offi- vision to help surrounding campus are available to local der regeneration is possible. One of the main benefits of
the magnetic cylinders is the reduced weight which leads
cials, community leaders communities thrive and sup- businesses and nonprofits in to lower transport costs.
need of facilities to host
from Casa Youth Shelter, port ongoing sustainability events, training or executive Label Traxx, a provider of
Precious Life Center and The initiatives through its prod- meetings free of charge. In its print MIS/ERP for the labels
Youth Center, as well as ucts and services. first year, Epson hosted the and flexible packaging seg-
Epson's CEO, Keith The campus features a annual Winter Fest event in ment, has entered three stra-
Kratzberg, and parent com- state-of-the-art executive its parking lot for the resi- tegic partnerships to provide
a full range of services to its
pany Seiko Epson Japan's briefing center, providing dents of Los Alamitos to drive customer base, and addi-
director, Koichi Kubota. significant opportunities for in and watch a movie from tional resources from Label
The Epson campus was Epson customers, partners their cars. Traxx partners. The organiza-
tions include: Amend Consulting, First Line Software and
Print Innovation. Amend Consulting is a specialist in manu-
DTM Print launches AP-Code Lot facturing with a team that has expertise in the labels and
packaging industry, and designed for label converters look-
and Date Coder ing to establish or improve standard operating procedures,
or don’t have the resources to undertake their digital trans-
formation. First Line Software is a consulting firm special-
izing in software development. It provides services to label
DTM Print has launched converters that allow them to build on top of existing soft-
AP-Code Lot and Date Coder ware, integrate and automate without needing to hire
for the label application pro- internal software development resources.
cess, adding the feature of Creation Reprographics, a
printing dates, lot codes and prepress partner to packag-
text directly onto glass, met- ing and label printers, will
als, plastics and laminated manufacture Fujifilm varnish
labels. plates for offset printing
The date coder, manufac- applications. With the addi-
tured by Primera tion of the Fujifilm varnish
Technology, is designed to Production site for transparent barrier films in Czech Republic plate range, Creation is expanding its range to the wide
web and sheetfed market for the first time. This addition
work with the AP-Series label marks another step forward for this business, which has
applicators, including new free-format and can include same time labels are applied. predominantly focused its activity on flexographic label
and existing installed units. letters, numbers and sym- AP-Code can add this infor- and packaging printing to date. The range expansion fol-
With no tools required, bols. Formats can be stored mation without the need to lows an agreement made in 2022 to supply Fujifilm
AP-Code installs quickly to for later use to speed up pro- simultaneously apply a label Flenex-FW water-washable plates, which implies an
the AP360e and AP362e duction. and can also print on pre- important period of change for Creation. Matt Francklow,
label applicators. It doesn’t As AP-Code is attached to applied labels. It uses a single MD said: ‘Through experience and hard work, we have
need a separate power supply an AP-Series label applicator, black solvent-based ink car- built our reputation as the go-to name in label and pack-
and includes a full-color customers get one integrated tridge that is long lasting, aging repro. This means that whenever we add new
products or services to our range, they have to match up
touchscreen to enter data machine that prints lot immediately dry, waterproof, to our customers’ exacting standards. For us, the decision
and configure date and lot codes, dates and directly onto scratch- and UV light resist- to add Fujifilm varnish plates to our line-up was easy.
codes. The print fields are round containers while at the ant.
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