Nilpeter FB-350 presses for Durban & New Delhi plants

FineLine Technologies, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has acquired two Nilpeter FB-350 flexo presses for the company’s plants in Durban, South Africa, and New Delhi, India. FineLine is said to be the fastest supplier of retail ticketing, RFID, and barcode labeling in the world.

According to the Nilpeter press release in November, the FB-350 is a workhorse label press offering ease of operation and superior printing quality. The company says it is designed to deliver maximum flexibility at an affordable price, and can be customized with innovative automation features according to requirements, and combined with value-added features such as lamination, cold foil, hot foil, gravure, and screen printing.

“Having already owned two Nilpeter presses through the years, it was a simple choice to keep our next two presses in their stable,” says Dudley Cherry, VP, and general manager of Traderplus, a division of FineLine Technologies.

“We have always received Gold Star service from Nilpeter worldwide. The two presses have been commissioned, and are in full operation – one in India, and the other in Durban, South Africa. FineLine Technologies sees the relationship that has developed as special, and this bodes well for all future purchases,” Dudley Cherry concludes.

“FineLine definitely did their due diligence, from Dudley Cherry here in South Africa to COO Kyle Sundaram in the USA and India, but at the end of the day, our close working relationship and the quality of our presses sealed the deal,” says Del Wiggill, CSM Machine Sales. “We’re delighted to be their preferred supplier and look forward to working with FineLine worldwide for many years to come. It continues to be a pleasure for me and my team here, as well as Alan Barretto and the Nilpeter India crew,” Del Wiggill concludes.

FineLine Technologies is the fastest supplier of retail ticketing, RFID, and barcode labeling in the world. Established in Atlanta in the spring of 1998, the company has grown into a global operation with factories and sales offices across the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia to ensure reliable service and supply, worldwide. Using their sophisticated, rules-based data management platform, FASTtrak, FineLine has continued to grow its customer base by supporting their business needs. With over 245 retail customers across the globe, FineLine prints over 6 billion units each year. State-of-the-art equipment and a hands-on management approach ensure reliability, efficiency, and unsurpassed quality.

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.

The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.

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