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54 FPLMA CONFERENCE
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Scott Thompson from Esko told the delegates that meeting the demands of the market meant digitisation, automation and connectivity. He said, “Customers want high quality, consistent colour, speed to market, they want to use packaging as a marketing tool, and they want to meet legislative and compliance obligations. Digitisation, automation and integration means your dream of reduced waste,
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reduced time and in- creased productivity can become your real- ity.” Thompson said using the cloud was one of the best ways to optimiseproduction.
The difficulties of communicating the benefits of investing in software were highlighted by Piet Cottenie, director of Hybrid GMS Pacific, who remarked that while printers could salivate over hard- ware it was much harder to get them ex- cited over software, but he said that soft- ware was the absolute key to operating in the new era. He gave a detailed presenta- tion on its ability to simply and optimise
production and paperwork.
Trevor Crowley, general manager for digital press manufacturer Xeikon ANZ said that the opportunity to integrate and automate already existed. He cited a UK Xeikon label printer he had visited, who produced 176 different label jobs on two print engines in one eight hour shift.
Crowley said, “Key drivers of the growth in short run on demand work are the slew of new and versioned products and legislation. To exploit the growth that we are seeing automation and integration as crucial. We already have MIS and web- to-print, we already have JDF and PDF. In digitising the production process we can measure, understand and improve. We can take action based on measured data and not on gut feeling. We can pro- duce jobs with minimal human involve- ment, and get to the point where jobs come off the machine with no human touch and the job is invoiced automatically.”
Delegates attending the 2018 FPLMA conference were left in no doubt of the direction that the industry is moving in, and that there are tools already available to enable them to capitalise on the oppor- tunities that are emerging. ■
GOLD WINNERS
SERIAL award winners RollsPack and Multi-Color Australia took out the flexo and labels Best In Show awards respectively at the Flexible Packaging and Label Manufacturers Association (FPLMA) annual awards.
The RollsPack winner was for its Pagkarra Chicken Puffs flexo printed packaging, which also won Gold in the Flexo Wide Web category .
Multi-Color took the Labels Best in Show for its Empirical job, which won Gold in the Combination, Wines and Spirits category. The judges describing the Empirical label as ‘perfectly executed’.
RollsPack in fact won four Golds including Best in Show, with managing director Phillip Rolls later paying tribute to his staff and his local competitors.
Multi-Color also took out four Golds, with the winning entries coming from three separate sites, one from Queensland, two from SA and one from the Griffith plant.
Label house also won four Golds,
two each on Flexo Labels and Offset categories. Andrew Kohn won two Flexo Wide Web Golds, with Visy and Wedderburn Lables each also winning Gold.
Apprentice of the Year was Callum Bryant from Labelmakers in WA, who made the journey across the country to collect his award, all five finalists were at the event.
Held at the Metropolis on Melbourne’s Southbank the glittering awards ceremony saw some 320 label and flexo printers pack the room, with a dance troup providing the entertainment, to be joined on the floor after the ceremony by plenty of printers ‘shaking their groove thang’.
Chairman of the judging panel was Andrew Maxwell, who is also part of the global label awards judging panel, into which all the FPLMA Gold winners will be entered.
ABOVE RIGHT: Best in Show Labels: Andrew Jones (right) Multi-Color Australia, with Mark Easton, FPLMA president
RIGHT: Best in Show Flexo: Phillip Rolls, RollsPack, (left) receives the Award from Vince Sedunary, FPLMA committee


































































































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