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Grupo Gondi brings Nanographic Printing to Latin America

A Landa S10 nanographic printing press, the first in Latin America, began operating at the Papel y Empaques Gondi Monterrey (PEM) facility. This installation places Grupo Gondi at the forefront of digital package printing in the region.

Printing in B1 formats (75 x 105 cm), the new press produces 6,500 sheets per hour, a speed that can be increased with an update.
Printing in B1 formats (75 x 105 cm), the new press produces 6,500 sheets per hour, a speed that can be increased with an update.

Those who attended Drupa 2012 tradeshow remember Benny Landa’s presentation on the use of nanotechnology in printing processes as one of its most outstanding moments. Nanotechnology, the science of materials manipulation at the atomic or molecular level to create substances with unique properties, has found an ideal application in the printing field. Tiny ink pigments, with widths in the millionths of a meter, produce powerful dyes that enable a whole new kind of digital printing.

The combination of Landa Nanoinks with the nanographic printing process patented by its creator, Benny Landa, results in outstanding speed characteristics, the widest possible range of color, ultra-sharp dots and high uniformity. Other properties making nanography and Landa press models an alternative increasingly appreciated by producers of packaging and commercial materials include the ability to print on a wide variety of substrates, and high resistance to abrasions and scratches on prints.

A Meeting with Great Repercussions

Among those attending Benny Landa’s presentation at that edition of Drupa were Eduardo Posada, Grupo Gondi CEO, and José Luis Villegas, its Director of High Graphics. After the presentation of the new development, the directors, impressed by what they had seen and heard, decided to take an important step for the Group. "We saw the presentation and talked with Landa, and Eduardo Posada decided to sign a letter of intent and make a deposit to become part of a select group of companies that would be at the forefront of acquiring this technology when it was available," recalls José Luis Villegas.

Today the project of having a nanographic printing press has become a reality for Grupo Gondi, placing them at the cutting edge of digital packaging printing in Latin America, especially for folding boxes for the food, cosmetics and personal care products sectors. In December 2019, at the headquarters of Papel y Empaques Gondi Monterrey (PEM) in the northern city of Monterrey, the Group installed a Landa S10 Sheet Feed model, which shares the same platform of a commercial-size B1 offset press, producing short and medium runs with different packaging materials.

Efficient Responses

Markets all over the world are experiencing transformations that exert an important impact on the way products are packaged and offered. In industries such as food and beverages, the existence of numerous lines, each with different sublines, references and presentations, has driven a demand for different packaging. Printers and converters must meet it promptly, with high quality and shorter runs than those traditionally executed with systems such as offset and flexography. "The tendency is to produce quantities similar to those made with offset, but in split batches; that is what customers are asking for," says Heberto Pachón, Landa representative for Latin America. He has followed closely the adoption and installation process of the Landa S10 press at Gondi headquarters in Monterrey.

Picture of the press inauguration day.Picture of the press inauguration day.

Although the Group already used digital printing for packaging materials, installation of the Landa S10 model will allow production with industrial speeds such as those offered by offset systems. "This capacity means it is very likely that conventional printing can be displaced by this type of technology in the medium term," says José Luis Villegas.

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