EFI Nozomi C18000 helps UCIC extend its offering

Saudi Arabia's United Carton Industries Company (UCIC) has installed an EFI Nozomi C18000 1.8m wide, six-colour, single-pass LED inkjet printer to enter new market segments, expand its customer base, and create a competitive advantage in the region. It will also increase UCIC's overall production capacity for point of sale displays.

"UCIC's priority is to meet customer expectations, which are constantly increasing due to ever changing market conditions," said UCIC president Mohnish Rikhy. "New technologies such as digital printing with EFI's Nozomi C18000 printer help us meet these demands and stay ahead of the competition." Founded in 1990, UCIC focuses on customised corrugated solutions - with a capacity of around 1.2bn boxes on average per year. The Nozomi C18000 printer will enable UCIC to begin transitioning HD flexo work produced in the company's five plants in Saudi Arabia to digital. The migration to digital printing will also increase its point-of-sale capacity and empower it to better handle shorter runs. Ali Jariwala, UCIC supply chain vice president, said of the investment: "We were highly impressed with the dual feeding feature of the printer and the three different printing modes. We expect the collaboration between UCIC and EFI to be fruitful." The EFI Nozomi C18000 prints up to 75m/min, printing up to 10,000 890 x 890mm boards per hour two-up. UCIC's new printer is of six-colour configuration (CMYK, orange and violet). It is driven by the Fiery NZ-1000 digital front end (DFE).