Labelcraft goes with Gallus – again

Labelcraft backs up for yet another Gallus press, sealing the deal at the Labelexpo exhibition in Brussels.

Labelcraft was one of two dozen local label companies to make the trip to this year’s Labelexpo exhibition in Brussels, Belguim, confirming the show’s status as the premier technology showcase for the label industry.

Good crowds on the first three days of the exhibition kept exhibitors on their toes and contributed to the sense that the industry had shrugged off concerns about the global economic slowdown and was prepared to invest once again.

Pictured: It’s a deal: Celebrating the signing of the deal for a new press (l-r) James Rodden, managing director Gallus Australia, Klaus Bachstein, Gallus CEO, Terry Rowney of Labelcraft and Ferdinand Rüesch, Gallus owner.

This was reinforced by news that Sydney-based label company, Labelcraft, had signed a deal for a new Gallus EM 280 pressline, joining a fleet of more than a dozen Gallus presses already operating at the company’s plants around Australia. The new press, which will be installed in the Sydney plant in February, is described as “the ideal machine for the cost-effective production of high-quality self-adhesive labels in small to medium-sized runs”.

The purchase follows on from the recent acquisition by Labelcraft of a Bobst Evoline 102-E die-cutter announced at the Pacprint exhibition in Melbourne earlier this year.

Further local sales for Gallus are expected to be confirmed in the aftermath of the show. For a full report on the Labelexpo exhibition, see the next issue of Print21 magazine.