Sigma Middle East Labels adds Lombardi flexo press

Sigma Middle East Labels Industries based the UAE has installed Lombardi Synchroline 530 flexo press. The machine was supplied by Vinsak, distributor of Lombardi presses in region.

(L-R) Pandee Ishwaram, production manager, Sigma Middle East, Sushant Chonkar, service manager, Vinsak, Jagannath Wagle, managing director, Sigma 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 four color printing, Sigma is 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 Lombardi Synchroline 530mm 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.  
 
Vinsak is a supplier in printing and packaging technologies in India, Africa, and the Middle East.  
 
Lombardi Converting Machinery is a 30-year-old Italian company and is known for 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 In Line 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 in line Flexo presses for flexible packaging.