Two
long-established Swiss companies, Polytype SA, the worldwide leader for systems
for tubes, cups and cans and Lüscher AG Maschinenbau, the leading supplier of
prepress systems for the graphics industry, have agreed on a global
distribution partnership of Lüscher machines that will greatly extend the strategic
areas of activity of both companies.
This
distribution partnership with Lüscher, the innovative trendsetter in the
prepress sector, will enable Polytype SA to round off its product portfolio and
develop into a full-range supplier. Customers can now count on outstanding
support not just for their standard requirements but also for highly specific,
complex tasks in the fields of blockmaking and print form production. „This
will not only lead to considerable cost savings but will also massively increase
our customers‘ flexibility“, says Polytype SA‘s Daniel Wider, Head of Business
Unit Cup Decoration, and Alain Berset, Head of Business Unit Tube Decoration.
Through
its partnership with Polytype SA, Lüscher will be able to greatly expand its
market for plate CTP systems thanks to the use of new, pioneering imaging
technology. Customers will benefit from a unique, hybrid imaging system which
will allow them to image the whole range of print forms such as dry offset
plates, offset plates, flexographic plates, rotation screens and all types of
flat screen at high speed and in outstanding quality using a single machine. In
addition, these Lüscher systems will permit the top-quality imaging of
magnesium and copper plates for foil stamping applications.
According
to Anton Tanner, COO, and Urs Bachofner, Sales and Marketing Director of
Lüscher, „in Polytype SA, we have an exceptionally well-established partner
whose international market leadership in a sector in which we have not
previously been active will open up long-term opportunities for us“.
