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News Release from: Edale | Subject: Beta press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 March 2007
Flexo Press For Secure Cards Printer
Invisible Card Company (ICC) in South Africa has just bought an Edale Beta press with combination IR and UV drying, laminating, cold foiling and a delivery table.
Invisible Card Company (ICC) in South Africa has just bought an Edale Beta press with combination IR and UV drying, laminating, cold foiling and a delivery table The Beta will be the second Edale machine in South Africa
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 27 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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ICC specialises in secure pre-paid scratch cards for the telecommunications industry, scratch-off tickets and vouchers for the gaming industry, promotional games and cards for the retail market and related services.
The company was started in 2003 by its two shareholders with their own finances and it was profitable in its first year with a turnover in excess of R7 million, climbing to R30 million in 2006.
Oscar Smuts, the logistics and projects manager at ICC, said: "We invited four different flexopress manufacturers to submit quotations and Edale was the only one that listened to us and matched our specification exactly." He went on to say that owing to ICC's increasing growth the company wanted a press with capacity that could grow with its development.
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ICC also wanted to work with a manufacturer with which it was happy to a partnership.
ICC explained that it hopes to extend its Beta press in the future, as other printers have done, with as many as 14 print stations.
ICC is also interested in the positional advantages Edale's new 'plug and play' Lambda press would offer.
Floors Coetzee, Edale's South African agent, also impressed ICC who, the company said, went to great lengths in assisting it from the enquiry process through to the order and installation.
Smuts said: "With Floors's technical knowledge and support and with the knowledge that there was already an Alpha operating successfully in South Africa we were confident in our decision to buy an Edale press." He continued: "Another reason we chose the Beta was after we analysed all the equipment in terms of servicing our basic needs and allowing us to diversify.
We found the Beta was more economical as we could take on extra business without needing to change overheads.
It was also competitively-priced." The Beta is replacing a Miller TP15 sheetfed offset machine and it will be ICC's first flexopress.
It will run alongside Heidelberg die cutting and foiling plattens as well as sheet fed digital HP indigo printers, amongst others.
The Invisible Card Company services mainly overseas customers but it is now looking to attack the South African label market with its Beta, with specific interest in the wine label business of the Western Cape, hence the specification of cold foiling.
However, to begin with the company will be mainly printing telephone cards with four to seven colours (some of which will be done in two runs).
ICC is a family run business which is environmentally and socially aware, using environmentally friendly raw materials and helping its workforce within the community.
It currently has 55 permanent staff and 150 casual employees.
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