Mexico’s Eticom installs Xeikon 3300

Eticom specializes in self-adhesive labels for the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries that require high-end labels. Spread over its two facilities in Mexico City and Monterrey, the company today operates with 16 flexo presses and two digital presses. The new Xeikon 3300 will offer size and format capabilities that are not available with Eticom’s current presses, with equivalent high quality. Xeikon said Eticom choose its dry toner electrophotography technology to complement its existing flexo and liquid Electroink printing technologies to expand capacity and its range of offerings.

‘Adding the Xeikon 3300 offers us a number of benefits,’ stated Eticom owner Jesus Ramirez (pictured, second from left). ‘First, Xeikon presses are relatively new in the Mexican market, so that alone sets us apart. In addition, this new press gives us the ability to take advantage of a wider web width and larger format size with a virtually unlimited repeat length. It requires no priming and can print on a broader range of substrates than our existing digital presses. And finally, it blends in perfectly with our established installed base of digital and flexo presses, delivering the same high quality. That allows us to mix and match jobs across multiple presses for optimum load balancing.’

Xeikon has opened a sale office in Mexico to target strong growth opportunities it has identified in Latin America. It also introduced its CX3 platform at Andina-Pack in Colombia, and has sold one of these presses to the country’s Topasa.

Eticom’s Ramirez noted that as digital press manufacturers gain more presence in the Mexican market, companies like his have more choices. ‘A few years ago, we didn’t have these choices. We are excited to now be able to choose specific solutions and suppliers for different applications. This allows us to be more creative with our production and to continually expand the range of applications we can offer to our customers.’

Julian Robledo of Xeikon Mexico described Eticom as a well-known pioneering label manufacturer that has seen significant growth. ‘Its existing press firepower is extended by the Xeikon 3300, breathing new life into the production mix while supporting existing customer demand. We are excited to be working with Eticom and helping them with improved cost efficiency and job flexibility in its day-to-day operations.’