SIG introduces new digital printing solution for their aseptic carton packs

SWITZERLAND – Swiss packaging company SIG has introduced a new digital printing solution for its aseptic carton packs, which is set to enable fast, flexible, full-color digital printing without the need for cylinders or printing forms.

The new solution, the RotaJET 168 digital printing machine built by Koenig & Bauer, enables full-color digital printing on Sig carton packs without cylinders or printing forms.

According to the company, the solution will provide the flexibility and agility required to address customer demands in the growing food and beverage industry.

The new digital printing technology will be installed at Sig’s production facility in Linnich, Germany, with commercial production slated for the second half of 2023.

It will complement the company’s existing efficient and high-quality rotogravure printing process.

Sig Product Management Technology head Holger Schmidt said: “We aim to always ensure our customers have the best choice and access to [the] latest technologies and solutions that keep them at the cutting edge of innovation today and in the future – designed to their needs.

“Small-scale production will make it possible for our customers to be creative with design changes and to test out product ideas in the market with reduced risks.

“Speed, flexibility, and precise product design are decisive factors for success, and this is exactly what we offer with our digital printing solutions.”

Sig’s new printing machine is ideally aimed at SKUs with lower order quantities and will enable food and beverage customers to make design changes efficiently.

The introduction of the new digital solution comes shortly after the Swiss company opened its second bag-in-box and spouted pouch manufacturing plant in Palghar, India.

According to SIG, the new plant is “a short drive” from the company’s first plant in Palghar and houses production assets used to manufacture components and finished packaging.

These include blown film extruders, injection molding cells, bag-in-box manufacturing machines and a mold-making facility for packaging fitments and closures.

The 15,000m² vertically integrated production plant will also house a mold-making facility for packaging fitments and closures for bag-in-box and spouted pouches.

SIG expects the opening to bolster its position in aseptically processed fruits, fruit purees, beverage concentrates and aseptic dairy in the Indian market.

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