Altea subsidiary installs DCM sleeve machine

Porta Egypt, a subsidiary of Altea Packaging Group, has expanded into the shrink sleeve market by acquiring a new sleeve machine from the DCM Group. The DCM Sleeve is a high-speed forming and sealing machine for the production of shrinkable sleeves.  

‘This investment aims at producing high quality shrinkable sleeve to feed a growing market,’ said Mohamed Ibrahim, chief operations officer of Porta and Rotopack. The new DCM sleeve machine is equipped with a nonstop rewinder and is able to produce at 400 m/min. DCM has designed, especially for this machine, a motorized unwind for keeping the web tension accurate. Furthermore, DCM has integrated an inline lay flat sleeve width reading with ultrasonic sensors.  

Gerard Lansade, sales director at DCM Group, highlighted the successful partnership between Altea Packaging Group and its subsidiaries, and DCM Group. For 25 years there has been a strong relationship between both founder companies of Altea Packaging Group, Cogitel and Sied, and DCM Group.  

According to Slim Zeghal, CEO of Porta and Rotopack and of the Altea Packaging Group, shrink sleeves represent ‘an exciting new trend in the world of packaging and a growing opportunity for converters’. Almost 400 t/year of shrink sleeves are produced in Cogitel (Tunisia), Porta and Rotopack (Egypt) facilities.  

Altea Packaging provides sleeves to a wide range of customers in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Senegal. In 2005, Altea Packaging received a Prestige Helio Award from the French photogravure association Pro Hélio for a promotional Coca-Cola sleeve based on the Nancy Ajram advertising campaign.  

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