The press is the first venture into the folding carton market for Gallus, which has long been market leader in the label printing press arena, and signals a more aggressive expansionary strategy for the Swiss company, which is partly owned by Heidelberg.

The ICS670 is the first collaboration between the Gallus and BHS team, which Gallus bought a couple of years ago

The company”s first carton press is an inline production model, which has no less than six functions within one pass, including screen printing, UV flexo, laminating, hot foil embossing, hot foil stamping, cold foiling, varnishing and cut crease. Gallus believes the attraction of single pass production that converts a blank web of board to a finished folding carton in the space of a 30 metre footprint at speeds up to 350m a minute with minimum handling and without the need to stack down pallets of sheets will prove a winner.

Gallus has deliberately targeted the new Gallus ICS 670 at mid size cartons in medium to long run lengths with a high degree of added value. The company is predicting this sector of the market will grow substantially over the next five years.” The new press sits at the top end of the quality market, complementing the Gallus Intro L/XL models that serve the low cost and high volume sector.

Typical target markets for the new press are the highly prized and highly priced beauty care and cosmetics, personal and healthcare, confectionary, tobacco, and other non-food areas such as blister cards and clear plastic boxes. The common thread running through all of them is small format size coupled with high added value content.

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