Vetaphone installs over 50 corona units at Reynders

Vetaphone has installed more than 50 of its corona units at Reynders’ plants in France, Poland, Spain, Germany and India on a mix of machines, including Gallus and Mark Andy presses.

With eight production sites in six countries, the family-owned Reynders has been supplying the label industry for more than five decades and is now under third generation management. The company now employs more than 700 people of which approximately half that number work in Belgium.

Reynders is producing self-adhesive labels, sleeves, flexible packaging and IML for markets that include pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, beverage, industrial, automotive, chemical, household and garden.

The first contact with Vetaphone came more than 30 years ago when Marc Reynders and Dirk Den Haese of Vetaphone Benelux began discussing how best to equip the company’s converting lines, mostly ABG and GM machines and in the early days Nilpeter printing presses, with reliable and efficient corona technology.

Since then, Vetaphone has installed more than 50 of its corona units at Reynders’ plants with more due for installation. 

Reynders operations manager Joris Mermans said: ‘What we particularly appreciate with Vetaphone corona is its low maintenance requirements. We very rarely have any issues with the easy access cartridge system and if we do, then spare parts are readily available and delivered quickly.’

Den Haese added: ‘Surface treatment might be only an ancillary part of the overall production process, but it’s one of the most vital links in the chain if you are dealing with film or foil materials.  Poor quality corona coverage will pose quality issues downstream and can involve costly reprints which neither converters nor customers can afford.’

Most of the label capability at Reynders is 330mm and 550mm web width, with 2kW corona power for the oldest machines and 4kW for the most resent printing presses with higher speeds and more demanding substrates.