Rotatek, a manufacturer with more than 1,700 installations worldwide, has appointed Emirates Trans Graphics (ETG) as its UAE distributor.
Bibiana Rodriguez, Rotatek’s managing director, told Packaging MEA that her firm aims to get close to UAE customers through the partnership with ETG.
“We can provide an effective and dynamic support in sales, service and after-sales service, increasing our presence and covering all the UAE,” she said.
Rotatek is a leading manufacturer of offset, flexo and combined narrow web rotary and semi-rotary presses and digital finishing equipment, she said.
“The quality and versatility of our machines gave us great success in the early seventies in machines with continuous form printing,” she said, “as currently with our range of products for printing high quality labels, flexible packaging or film required by booming sectors such as wine/spirits, pharmaceutical, personal care and safety.”
At Labelexpo Europe, Rotatek gave live presentations of three new servo-driven machines: a combination printing press, digital finishing equipment and a flexographic printing press.
Rototek’s established Brava 450 offset full- and semi-rotary combined machine appeared at the tradeshow with a new design and new features such as flatbed silkscreen inline and hot foil stamping unit with foil saver. In a global launch, Rotatek also presented its compact digital finishing equipment.
“These two great machines are suitable for high range products and printing very short runs for low times of change and adjustment,” said Rodriguez. Applications include wine and spirits labels, cosmetic labels and products that need combinations of processes such as offset, hotstamping, flexo, silkscreen, diecutting and embossing, she said.
Rotatek’s new Rotatek flexo machine with servo-driven technology provided the third demonstration.
“It has a totally new concept and design with a 330mm width and shaftless transmission really suitable for short runs due to its easy and fast flexibility,” she said. “We are absolutely sure it’s going to be a great surprise for most of the customers who are interested on this kind of machine.”
Rotatek’s presses cover labels, flexible packaging, security printing, cartons, films and sleeves, she said. A modular concept enables customised setups, combining flexo and offset units with other printing, inline converting and finishing processes such as cold stamping, hot stamping, lamination, embossing, delam/relamination, reprocessing and silkscreen.
Rotatek narrow web printing presses include semi-rotary/rotary (Brava), offset sleeve technology (Universal), offset shaftless (Perfect NT Shaftless), combined offset-flexo (Combi 420), flexo (Ecoflex, NewFlex, Smartflex) and offset (RK200, MP150, RK250-Plus, RK Perfect) technologies.