Martin Automatic Inc.

One of the Czech Republic’s largest label converters Colognia press a.s. has continued its investment in Martin Automatic technology with an MBSF unwind splicer and LRD rewinder with slitting capability fitted to its new Gallus Labelmaster 440 press at Kolin, some 70km east of the country’s capital city, Prague. The new equipment joins previous Martin nonstop unwind and rewind technology fitted to Colognia’s Gallus RCS 330 presses in 2010 and 2015. Read the full story here.

Martin Automatic’s MBS butt splicer with integrated right angle turnbar is perfect for plants that are short on space but need to increase their productivity. Requiring only 1.65m of space in the press line, this workhorse of a butt splicer delivers automatic roll change technology that performs now and far into the future. To see this space saving unwind in action, click here.

Martin Automatic's stand at drupa 2016 showcased the company's knowledge and skill in automatic roll change, tension control, web handling and the principles and dynamics of web transport.

Martin Automatic reported a successful Labelexpo Europe, in which it demonstrated two of its most popular products: the MBS automatic unwind butt splicer and the LRD turret rewinder.

The first new Goss Sunday Vpak web offset printing system has been installed at Precision Press. The press accommodates a wide variety of film substrates, product formats and high-quality lithographic requirements.

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries, including Fives North America, Maxcess, Quantum Design, Erhardt+Leimer, Martin Automatic

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries, including Rotoflex, Martin Automatic, Webex Inc. and AB Graphic International.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on World Top Brewery and Color-Logic; Label Technology and Label Technology; Bunting Magnetics Co.; iSys Label; Grafix Equipment; Harper Corporation of America; and Louis Oscar Werneke, founder of Werneke Ink.

Label Technology's new MBSF butt splicer matches the high productivity specifications of the 10-unit, 26-inch digital servo drive press, unwinding and splicing paper and unsupported films, including 48g PET, at speeds to 750 fpm.

Flexographic Trade Services held its two-day Open House event at its facility here earlier this month, which included more than 20 table-top displays from many of the industry's leading suppliers, the majority of which have been vendor sponsors since the trade school was established in 2000.