Sigma Middle East Labels Industries, based in the UAE, has installed a Lombardi Synchroline 530 flexo press. The machine was supplied by Vinsak, a distributor of Lombardi presses in the region. Vinsak is a supplier of printing and packaging technologies in India, Africa, and the Middle East.
Sigma is one of the leading manufacturers of self-adhesive labels in the industry since 2010 started by Jagannath M Wagle. Starting with 4-color printing, Sigma provides multicolored label printing on narrow web flexo presses.
Sigma specializes in several label types including self-adhesive and shrink sleeves for markets such as product labels, industrial labels, price stickers, cargo labels with facilities like cold foil stamping, lamination, and UV printing in sheet/roll form and supplies them to various industries as pharma, cargo, industry, steel industry, food industry, plastic industry.
“In Vinsak we found a reliable partner who has supported us in deciding the specifications of the equipment to suit our current and future needs as well to supply the correct tooling, ancillaries as well as complete installation and training support of this project and enabled us to start production in the shortest possible time,” said Wagle.
“Their consultative approach is very different to some of the hard-nosed sales teams with whom we have dealt in the past. In fact, our decision to move from another Global brand to Lombardi was greatly driven by the service provided by Vinsak.”
Vinsak supplied the Lombardi Synchroline 530 mm wide 8-color flexo press with options of web cleaner, double-sided corona treatment, turn bar, cold foil, UV dryer and hot air tunnel for meeting the diversified needs of the client in narrow web shrink sleeve and IML production. The press, with its capability to print on a wide variety of substrates from 12-micron film to 450 GSM board. Its maximum repeat of 1000mm is the largest in the industry.
Lombardi Converting Machinery is a 30-year-old Italian company and is known for the production and distribution, narrow web and wide web flexographic in-line presses. With this new installation, the UAE alone has 10 machines installed in the last 4 years. All over, Lombardi has installed more than 500 inline flexo presses globally with more than 125 being sold in the Vinsak territories. Lombardi has also recently launched its I2 series of Mid and wide web inline Flexo presses for flexible packaging.
