South Africa-based Morvest Mithratech has installed a high-specification Edale Gamma configured for scratch card production.
Founded in 2005, Morvest Mithratech’s core business is providing secure print solutions for the telecom, banking and hospitality sectors.
The firm describes the purchase of the 8-colour Edale Gamma 430 line as a natural progression in growing the business.
Its capability to perform all printing and finishing in a single operation gives Morvest Mithratech “a tremendous technical advantage and commercial competitive edge”, said Faheem Varachia, the firm’s managing executive.
Morvest Mithratech’s primary business is recharge voucher solutions such as scratch-off telecom recharge cards, pre-paid electricity solutions and novelty scratch cards, but the Gamma will enhance the firm’s PIN mailer offerings and open up niche packaging solutions.
While the firm opted for a 430mm web width, the fully servo-driven Edale Gamma also caters for 510mm.
The press can print on substrates ranging from 12µm unsupported film up to 600µm carton board at up to 200m/min, and can produce all formats of scratch card from single CR80 pin to multi pin cards and sheets.
Morvest Mithratech’s machine includes a large unwind with web cleaning, insetting for pre-printed webs, multiple flexo print stations with IR/Air and UV drying and combination drying for conventional printing, varnishing, scratch off ink printing, a personalisation unit with Domino inkjet heads as well as hot foiling, die cutting, perforating and sheeting finishing stations with reel to reel or reel to finished sheet production.