Soma shows commitment to South America

The events were organized by Ferrostaal Ecuador, the supplier’s agent in Ecuador, with over 40 visitors from the country’s printing and flexible packaging industry in attendance.

Together with the partner companies that form the Soma Globe Alliance and their representatives in the region, Soma’s Jan Sembera gave a presentation on the new Optima flexographic printing press, supported by Apex, Chespa, Esko and DuPont. Presentations featured on savings using the latest developments in press and pre-press technology including anilox rolls, flexo inks for retort pouches and benchmarking of printing plates.

The questions and answers sessions were of particular interest to attendees keen on hearing how flexo can rival the quality of gravure to produce the high-quality graphics required for retort pouches. Chespa’s Tomasz Maraszek elaborated further on the benefits of the technology and presented a paper on specially formulated flexo inks for retort pouch films and laminates.