INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
IDM II – Inline Decoration Module: Combining Hot Foil Stamping, Laser Decoration, and UV Coating in One Innovative Line Antonio Scotti Tapematic Spa, Ornago (Monza e Brianza), Italy
antonio@tapematic.it
Extreme customisation, fast service, elimination of distances, and higher quality levels are the market requirements that are increasingly pushing towards the vertical integration of numerous process steps within production companies, in order to reduce waste, minimise logistics times, and shorten time-tomarket. With IDM II, a new turnkey decoration line for cosmetic packaging, Tapematic meets all these requirements with a modular, innovative, fully automatic concept that can be easily integrated into any type of production structure.
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nsourcing production phases means improving product quality. It
Another market variable driving this trend towards vertically
increases the possibility of monitoring process parameters and,
integrated production and process insourcing has been introduced
above all, it minimises the handling of workpieces and therefore
by the Covid-19 pandemic: a completely different consumer view of
the risk of damaging the treated surfaces, thus reducing scrap rate.
the market. In fact, it is as if the real market had shifted to the virtual
This trend has long been present within the industries using surface
world, in a sort of cloud that has cancelled out consumers’ ability
treatments. The cosmetic packaging sector, and particularly its
to wait for a product. Online shopping deludes us into thinking that
prestige segment, are among them because up to three different
everything is always at our fingertips and immediately available.
suppliers can be involved between plastic moulding and decoration,
However, this clashes with industrial production times, which cannot
with very high levels of product contamination.
be reduced below a certain threshold. The inability to wait has
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With Tapematic’s new line IDM II, packaging manufacturers can obtain countless decorations and customisations to create unique pieces with an easy-to-manage, in-line process.
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N. 68 - MARCH/APRIL 2021 - international PAINT&COATING magazine