On June 22-23, 2022, Prati will opens the doors of its Faenza plant to showcase the insight and inspiration that led to the development of the company’s new finishing technologies. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with prominent partners, get to know Mario di Paolo, winner of the award for best label designer in the world, and experience the local Italian culture and gastronomy.

Those interested can register for the event here.

During the event, Prati will emphasize the mantra of, “Together, we plan the future.” This philosophy has been instrumental in Prati’s journey, which began almost 50 years ago and has evolved with passion, know-how, seriousness and a desire to offer customers machines with an innovation button.

Customers and designers will come together at the open house in a creative atmosphere. Live demonstrations will highlight the various phases of doming, varnishing, cutting, curing, foiling and slitting and their role in producing high-quality labels and packaging. Customer feedback has played a pivotal role in Prati’s product development. The following lines will be on display:

DIGIFASTone: Completely digital, both in the finish and in the diecutting, this range allows users to enter the short-run market by producing promotional labels in the food and beverage, wine and spirits, cosmetics, personal care and home care sectors. Attendees will be able to see how to create labels with great added value and touch the effects of finishing and digital finishing on special paper labels.

DIGIFAST20000: This digital finishing line offers opportunities to the printing sector on mid-web packaging. The modular design of the machine allows Prati to enter a new sector, starting with finishing and ending with packaging, thanks to an “all in one” solution. Improved in the flexo group, it will work with water and UV varnish.

DIGICOMPACT: This digital finishing line enables ergonomics and compactness (overall length is only three meters). It allows converters to work with thicknesses from 12 to 350 microns and eliminate waste between one job and another, and can be customized with various optional modules (roll to roll, roll to sheet and roll to stack units). Live, it will be possible to touch special effects for beer labels.

SATURN Bidi: This line features a control and inspection table for labels in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical sector. Ideal for booklet labels, it is supplied with print quality inspection and re-inspection functions, back numbering and related inspection, counting, cutting and rewinding. Cleaning the web path between work cycles ensures compliance for the pharmaceutical industry with ISO 15378.

The common thread between the various models is the Futura platform, on which the Prati machines have been developed with a view of Industry 4.0. The open housewill delve into Futura technology and how it has been successfully adopted by numerous converters. Futura offers flexibility, unlimited upgrades, easy retrofitting, maximum efficiency and adaptability of the machine in a constantly changing market.