The Almerian (Spain) manufacturer, with more than twenty years of history in the market, continues to invest in improvements to its facilities with its first Miyakoshi offset semi-rotary press, while another Miyakoshi press is on its way to become the second to be installed in less than a month. To be continued...

Miyakoshi Europe, a member since 2015 of Miyakoshi Printing Machinery, a company whose origins date back to 1946 (Japan) and considered a leader in high-performance printing machinery, both offset (rotary and semi-rotary) and narrow web digital presses for printing labels, security documents, flexible packaging, etc., has once again confirmed its role as a key partner in the graphic arts sector by selecting ManRoland Latina as a specialized distributor for its leading range of offset products.

Miyakoshi Europe, based in Madrid, Spain, is a subsidiary of one of the world's best known and most renowned Japanese manufacturers of offset and digital presses, Miyakoshi Printing Machinery. Co, LTD, announces today that it has officially become an associate member of UNFEA.

With four plants spread across Spain and Portugal, Grupo Lappí has ambitious plans for continued growth and further international expansion. James Quirk reports

In the times of Covid, Argraf steps up the pace of technological innovation.

It’s amazing that in these times, with a large part of the Spanish business world running at half steam and fearful of the social and economic setting the pandemic is leaving us, there are still business people with the financial muscle to invest millions in their businesses. This is the case of Argraf, one of the most important label manufacturers in the Spanish market. Remaining loyal to their policy, they continue to commit to investments in technology as a tool for growth and differentiation. Once again, this has led them to opt for Miyakoshi, on this occasion, a semi-rotary offset UV press.

Miyakoshi Europe are proud to announce the appointment of Packwise-Africa as their Agent in South Africa and Sub Sahara Africa.

Joining representatives of Miyakoshi Europe, together with others from OMC, the firm representing the Japanese brand in the Iberian market, we traveled to Guimarées, 20 km south of Braga, in northern Portugal, to speak with Carlos Corte-Real, CEO of Crobel Label Industry and take a first-hand look at its debut in the world of label offset printing using a Miyakoshi MLP13C unit.

The Polish Printing House DTL is prensent in the market since 1995, and its specialization is to supply to customers the highest quality labels and packaging. With over 25 years expirience on the market, the owner and CEO of DTL – Zdzisław Wawak, knows exactly the customers needs.

Miyakoshi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd. (Miyakoshi), a market leader of innovative state of the art printing and packaging solutions, today announced the official launch of its new inkjet digital press for flexible packaging; the MJP30AXF.

 

Coinciding with the recent installation of their new model MJP13LXV UV-LED Inkjet Label Printer from the Japanese firm, Miyakoshi Printing Machinery, we paid a visit to the Getafe-based company along with representatives from Miyakoshi Europe and WTO, the firm that represents the manufacturer in our country, in order to find out more about the business vision of a company that is active in the worlds of luxury boxes, self-adhesive labels and even paper bags, and go beyond operating details and future potential of technology.

With a history of more than half a century, Grupo Lappí Etiquetas has become a veritable benchmark for the production and sale of labels on the Iberian peninsula.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Van Gogh... and probably many other great geniuses from a range of disciplines, coincided in the idea that perfection is not a detail itself, but rather perfection is in the details.

As a result of the recent congress last May of ANFEC (the National Association of Manufacturers of Continuous Labels) in Porto, Portugal, in which they voted to change their name to AIFEC (the Iberian Association of Manufacturers of Continuous Labels), to extend the Association to include companies in the neighbouring country, we wanted to visit one of these companies, Etiquel, in the company of its Managing Director, Celestino Costa.

Etilisa, that was “born digitally” in the Rioja wine region to produce labels using HP’s Indigo digital printers, has taken what seems like a step "backwards", and has installed a Miyakoshi MLP13C semi-rotary offset press

Miyakoshi Europe and its distributor and exclusive importer in Spain, OMC, were present as participants in the recent XX national label manufacturers’ congress...

Miyakoshi was present at the 12th CONFERENCE SELF-ADHESIVE LABELS – THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES to present the fastest semi-rotatory offset press technology.

Miyakoshi was present at the Label Expo Europe reference trade show of the printing and labelling industry. The fair took place on September 25,26,27 and 28 of October in Brussels, Belgium.

On July 14^th and 15^th , the Open House was held Nebigraf (via Monari Sardè 13, 40010 Bentivoglio BO, Italy). During the event our flagship semi-rotary high-speed model MLP13-H the fastets in the market, was presented

Autajon Group, one of the largest worldwide label printers, has reached a collaboration agreement with Miyakoshi Europe. As a result, the Japanese manufacturer has become the main supplier to Autajon Group of its semi-rotary offset machines for the label business. This agreement is one of the most significant projects the Japanese firm has in the pipe line at present, providing for the gradual rollout of the MLP UV semi-rotary offset press – its flagship product – across a number of plants operated by the French firm.

The label sector is one of the best positioned within the graphic communication industry. In addition, its forecasts, for the coming years, foretell a very positive future for the sector, especially for offset and digital technologies.

LABEL EXPO EUROPE 2017(September 25 – 28, Brussel) Stand: 8B31

MIYAKOSHI’S NEXT PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOW

In April 2015, Japanese printing equipment manufacturer Miyakoshi Printing Machinery decided to make a firm commitment to the European high-quality labels market with the creation of Miyakoshi Europe, with the collaboration of Spanish firm OMC.

b2Pack, a company that specialises in the production of high-quality labels and packaging for the cosmetics, perfume, pharmaceuticals, wine and food sectors, has more than 50 years’ experience and know-how in the world of graphic arts.

OUR NEXT OPEN HOUSE WILL TAKE PLACE IN

CZECH REPUBLIC ON FEBRUARY 22^nd 2017

In cooperation with our agent GRAFFIN s.r.o. ( Kacov 332, 285 09 Kacov, Czech Republic), we are pleased to announce that our flagship semi-rotary high-speed model MLP13-H will be installed for demonstration in their show case in Kacov.

Now Miyakoshi offer to the label market are the Semi-rotary Offset presses MLP.

We firmly believe MLP is the Best Solution for some segment, and you will be able to verify it next November.

In the worldwide labels and packaging market, semi-rotary offset presses are increasing, about 100…150 presses per year.

Grupo Argraf, a reference Alavese company in the Spanish label manufacturing market, is once again in the news for its investments in machinery.

 

Copidata, S.A. is one of the leading and growing printing companies of Iberia. In the late 2015 acquired Etiforma and Lithoformas and is now merging the 3 companies in one site. One of the major growing focuses of this project is high quality self-adhesive label production. Mr Antonio Brum, board member of Copidata, shared his views on MLP.

Links is a packaging printer in Japan and the first customer in Japan to install MHL, a Rotary Wet Offset Press for film. Their main jobs are stationary and small goods. Recently, we had a chance to interview Mr. Tetsuya Yoshida (Managing Director of Links) about MHL. 

FRATELLI GEROLDI S.R.L. (www.geroldi.it) is one of the leading companies in Italy in the field of self-adhesive label printing.

Mr. Alberto Geroldi, son of the company owner Fratelli Geroldi, recently shared his insights about MLP and Miyakoshi.

Printing House Daga LLC (www.dagaprint.com) is one of the leading companies in Bulgaria in the field of self-adhesive roll labels' high class production. In 2015 Mr. Nikolay Dimitrov – Manager and owner of the company, decided to invest in a new and modern equipment for high quality labels’ printing.

MIYAKOSHI EUROPE to show MLP-H in Open House (March 17th) at Madrid office and also at Drupa at Dusseldorf (May 31st – June 10th).

Needless to say, Flexo is the most dominant printing method for label market in Europe with about 70% market share.

However, the recent trends for Flexo and also for Letterpress show that job lots and its profits are dramatically decreasing. These trends seem to continue in future as well.

Miyakoshi Printing Machinery, a renowned Japanese manufacturer of semi-rotary offset presses for printing high-quality labels, with over 70 years’ experience in the sector, sets a clear commitment to the European market.

In a move to offer great benefits for both companies, Miyakoshi Printing Machinery Co. Ltd, and Flexwell Gmbh, German distributor for Japanese manufacturer, have confirmed their mutual collaboration to distribute its range of semi rotary offset printers for labels in the german market.