The new Gidue machine will help to extend the range of labels produced by Chesapeake and enable it to produce complex designs, labels that require a high number of colours, three or five ply-formats and labels that require the use of multiple substrates.

The press is equipped with 10 UV flexo print units and incorporates advanced HD camera technology on each print unit.

The camera checks each printed label for colour consistency and self-adjusts the print pressure, density and print register through the use of 7 servo driven motors on each unit. 

Set-up of the machine is fully automated while print quality is monitored and adjusted across a range of substrates.

Chesapeake marketing manager Bob Houghton said: "The new press will help to the uplift capacity and boost efficiency at our Bourne facility."

Its new press is the latest in the company’s ongoing investment programme which has seen it install three Bobst and Heidelberg Dymatrix cut and creasing machines in its Newcastle, Kildbride and Nottingham plants.

It has also invested in its fifth Komori Lithrone in two years, which it signed for at Drupa in May. In addition, the company installed the UK's first Heidelberg Diana X 80 folder gluer in May.