Press purchase heats up business for Icelandic converter

-- Converting Magazine, 4/22/2008

Due for delivery in June (when there will be plenty of daylight hours for installation), a new X-Flex press from Omet (www.omet.it/main/home_en.asp) will begin production at PMT (http://en.pmt.8.is), Iceland’s leading label printer. PMT chose the new 6-color, UV-flexo system after convincing print trails undertaken at Omet’s Demo Center in Lecco, Italy. Substrates from film to light cartonboard were run through the X-Flex using very low screen values.

“We tested a number of presses, and there was no doubt that the X-Flex performed the best,” says PMT managing director Oddur Sigurdsson. “Iceland is a remote market with a wide variety of special requirements, so we needed the best flexibility available to make the investment worthwhile.”

When fully commissioned, PMT’s new X-Flex will also offer movable cold-foil, delam-relam, and turner bars on an overhead rail system, a shock-air system for windows patching, and a two-ply, p-s coupon labelmaking system.

Omet is represented in the US by Matik North America (www.matik.com).