Pantec’s Cheetah is a leading web hologram insetting and hot foil stamping system in wide web operation. Hot foils and holograms are important for marketing to give an extraordinary look and to add security features to packaging. These technologies offer the possibility to brand owners to shape their brand image as well as to attract customers on the point of sales. Although hot foiling and hologram stamping are well introduced in the market there is still a huge potential for cost saving and quality to exploit.
“What we are already doing in the narrow web can basically be copied on to the flexible packaging. So with the same technology, embellishment effect that we are already producing on labels can be achieved on flexible packaging too. This is our plan to really achieve in India. This potential can be developed with the Pantec Cheetah rotary hot foil and hologram stamping system,” said Rene Abacherli, head of sales, Pantec GS Systems, who recently visited India.
“In India, the embellishment that customers are looking for is embossing. While embossing is basically done by deforming the substrate, our idea is also to look at the possibility of doing it at the visual aspects level. So we are offering unique features like registered 3D foil to achieve deformed effect on the substrate. There are substrates which are not suitable for embossing through physical deformation. In such cases, embossing effect can be achieved by using filmic material which has visual embossed effect,” explained Abacherli.
In the wide web industry, Cheetah does hot foil stamping with foil saving and replacement of register foil. “The key is that we are very good in semi-film material – this means the waste you are generating by applying additional design element is very limited and therefore the cost of that additional feature is also very low,” said Abacherli.
The foil consumption for the streams, which run in the ‘save mode’ on Cheetah is reduced to a minimum, by stopping the foil after a stamp, pulling it back and re-synchronizing it to the web for the following stamp. The remaining waste gap on the foil is less than 1 mm. “In addition, the machine is very easy for operators to operate. The speed of the machine is extremely high and if you are running in a high volume market, speed is a very critical to meet the demand,” concluded Abacherli.
