BOGOTÁ, Colombia—IMPREAC – Impresos y Acabados S.A.S. has installed its second Nilpeter FB-Line, an FB-350, to improve production capacity in multi-layer coupon labels. The company expects to increase capacity by more than 30 percent.
IMPREAC was founded in 1991 by Ricardo Herrera as a sheet-fed company. His son, Luis Fernando Herrera, started the company’s flexography department in 2013 to provide multi-layer coupon labels to their main customers. This development took two years to materialize.
2021 was a year of change for IMPREAC. It celebrated its 30th anniversary, an event in which it commemorated and celebrated the life of founder Ricardo Herrera, who unfortunately passed away in July. His family and employees further honoured his memory by continuing expansion projects with a new 1,700 sq. m. plant, located in the Industrial Park, Celta Park, on the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, and installing the new flexographic production line Nilpeter FB-350. The company has succeeded in serving its customers without stopping production in the toughest moments of the pandemic and in the midst of an economic reactivation.
“The new FB-350 will increase our capacity by at least 30 percent, giving us the chance to react faster to unplanned orders, and the flexibility to handle last-minute changes. Overall, it will improve our abilities in the production of multi-layer coupon labels and cardboard labels,” said Luis Fernando Herrera, production manager, IMPREAC – Impresos y Acabados S.A.S.
“Nilpeter was the only partner that we considered for this project, as our previous experience with the FB-3300S was really good, and we were looking for a backup press in which we could use the same tooling, take advantage of the standardization (fingerprint), and printing knowledge we have on the existing printing technology. Improving the efficiency and use of resources, with the technological improvements of the New FB-350,” Luis Fernando Herrera added.
IMPREAC’s formula for success, offering a reliable product and flexibility in its operation, has allowed them to open export markets for the company in Latin America and Central America.
“Being a witness from the beginning and working side-by-side with the customer has shown me the wide production spectrum that our presses are able to achieve. When we started, the project was focused on five-page coupon labels. And now, mixing the development of IMPREAC with the technology of Nilpeter’s FB-Line, and passing the learning curve, they have been able to produce coupon labels up to 13 pages,” said Juan Pablo Patino Arevalo, commercial manager for the Nilpeter Andean Region.
The FB-Line is a sophisticated workhorse offering high ease-of-operation and superior printing quality. The new FB-350 installed at IMPREAC is equipped with high-capacity cold foil towers, Nilpeter’s rail-based re-inserting system, includes the new Automatic Plate Positioning feature and a short web pass.