Xeikon Café closes after successful week

This saw a Xeikon 3500 equipped with CMYK and Durable Clear toner printing on an Iggesund substrate in a roll-to-sheet configuration, similar to as seen in the Package Printing Workshop feature area at Labelexpo Europe 2013. That set-up included a Bograma unit positioned directly after the press for in-line converting. Bograma was in attendance at Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations as a supplier partner exhibiting its services and products to attendees. This included a sheet-fed BSR 550 rotary die-cutting printed sheets using flexible dies.

Bograma was one of 28 supplier partners at the event from across the package printing supply chain, from material suppliers Iggesund and Treofan to cutting and creasing specialists Highcon and Kama.

Other suppliers at the Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations came from each point of the label printing supply chain, such as Actega and Treofan to Hybrid Software, Michelman and Advanced Track & Trace. AB Graphic was also in attendance and running a Digicon Series 2 converting line, with UV varnish, screen printing, foiling and embossing being added to pre-printed wine labels.

Many of these presented as part of a technical conference program that traversed the three-day event and addressed a range of topics directly related to their company’s operations. This covered workflow and pre-press, substrates and inks to finishing and converting.

In total, Xeikon’s event detailed the role of its dry toner digital press equipment in a range of labels and packaging applications, 15 in total from pharmaceutical, heat transfer and in-mold labels to folding cartons and paper cups, and included various models from its press portfolio, including the 3500, 3300 and 8800, running and printing work.

A business conference program also provided a handful of real-world examples of converters using Xeikon technology, including C&P Packaging, which produces folding cartons. Read a profile of C&P Packaging and its investment in digital here.

Xeikon recently outlined its growth plans for digitally printed folding cartons.

Xeikon said that, in total, the event attracted over 350 visitors from 48 countries, including delegations and representatives from Asia, the Middle East and across Europe.

Wim Maes, Xeikon chief executive officer, said: ‘At the very heart of Xeikon, in our production site in Lier, Belgium, graphical arts industry stakeholders multiplied efforts to demonstrate how digital production can help leverage profitability and increase value delivered to consumers across the world.

‘We from Xeikon are proud to close this edition of Xeikon Café with an unprecedented attendance and a strongly positive feedback. Together with our 28 partners, we have been able to deliver a world class event comprised of a consistent business and technical conference program and excellent business networking opportunities.’