Landa's Latest in Folding Carton, Flexible Packaging and Metallization Among drupa Highlights

The Landa S10 is a B1 digital press capable of running at 13,000sph.

Landa has announced that its lineup of offset quality Nanographic Printing presses at drupa will include sheetfed presses running at 13,000 B1 sheets per hour as well as one meter-wide (41˝) web presses printing on plastic packaging films. The company will also unveil Landa Nano-Metallography, a zero-waste metallization technology that will halve the cost of metallized printing compared to foil transfer processes.

Landa will double the size of its drupa 2016 stand to 3,000 sq. m. and will conduct live demonstrations of all of its Nanographic Printing presses, including the Landa S10 sheetfed press for folding carton and POP, the Landa S10P perfecting press for commercial printing, and the Landa W10 web press for flexible packaging and paperboard.

"Fourteen years of nanotechnology research has enabled us to make tremendous breakthroughs in the quality, speed and cost of printing," Benny Landa, chairman of the Landa Group, said. "Landa Nanographic Printing presses produce offset quality, and now at offset speeds and offset-competitive cost per print — on virtually any paper stock. This research has also spawned a new technology, Nano-Metallography, which will enable metallization graphics at less than half the cost of foil, with zero waste — and is quicker and simpler to use. We expect visitors to our stand at drupa to be completely blown away by the amazing performance of these products — for which we will be taking orders at drupa. Our presses will start shipping in early 2017."

Samples of Landa Nano-Metallography

The company's new Nano-Metallography technology offers zero-waste metallization, reducing costs by more than half compared to foil. Landa's quicker and simpler process will streamline the production of metallized print and improve customer profitability.

Landa Nano-Metallography is operable with the full spectrum of conventional printing technologies, including narrow-web flexo, offset and screen for the production of labels, sheetfed offset for folding carton and commercial printing, web-offset for publishing and wide-web flexo and gravure for flexible packaging.

"Current metallization processes are prohibitively expensive due to the high cost of foil and tremendous waste," Landa said. "Our Nano-Metallography technology will enable metallization at less than half the cost of foil, with zero-waste - and it's microwave compatible. We expect this technology to be available to customers in 2017."

Throughout drupa 2016, Landa will hold live product demonstrations of Landa Nano-Metallography on a narrow-web label press.

Landa will also unveil its new Landa W10 Nanographic Printing Press for flexible packaging. The meter-wide (41˝), high-speed web press prints up to eight colors at 200 meters per minute (656 ft./min.) on plastic packaging films, paper, carton board and aluminum foil.

"The Landa W10 Nanographic Printing press produces gravure quality printing — at production speeds — on a broad range of substrates from plastic packaging films to metal foils, from paper to carton," Landa said. "Finally, there is a solution that meets the needs of the flexible packaging industry for affordable short-to-medium run lengths of highest gravure-quality packaging materials — with flexo-competitive costs and productivity. We expect visitors to our stand at drupa to be completely blown away by the amazing performance of this press."

The Landa W10 Nanographic Printing press provides high-speed, eight-color printing for flexible packaging.

Landa will hold theater presentations five times a day for the entire duration of the exhibition. Reservations can be requested in advance at www.landanano.com/drupa, or, subject to availability, may be booked at kiosks on the Landa stand (Hall 9) during the exhibition.

Source: Landa.