News from Fergesen Design About Products We Offer

News Release - March 11, 2011

Fergesen Design Co., Inc. is proud to announce the successful completion of their US manufactured UV Roller Coating System, which is small enough to fit on a bench near the press or can be easily mounted as a movable floor coater. The UV roller coating system is considered the best for small printers who use digital process or standard offset printing techniques. This technology is the result of 15 years design improvement for our company, which in 2011 reaches its 30th year designing and building UV systems.

Don't lose customers because of poor quality from offline coaters who charge you too much to coat a small run. Also do not be fooled by poorly designed, poorly manufactured and misrepresented equipment made in China.

Below are listed the features and controls which separate Fergesen from poorly designed lower performing coaters.

• The latest electronic ballast is used for smooth efficient system control. This produces variable light control, giving the process the exact amount of UV energy. This lets the user fine-tune production speeds, reduce heat to the substrate and use only the power required to do the job.
• These units are totally enclosed. This is very important to the shop and operator. It means there is less noise produced by the coater, there is less UV coating odor and special high cost coatings are not required to produce the finish needed. Because it is enclosed, there is less heat in the operator and plant area. Also the UV light is completely enclosed, which improves safety and comfort for the operator and surrounding area.
• It has optional LED curing capability for efficient long lamp life and is the technology of choice for heat sensitive substrates. And it requires less energy to operate than conventional UV curing.
• The special coating head and controls provide a simple set-up and start up operation and have been proven in production to be powerful enough to run more than 200,000 sheets a month at up to 3500 sheets per hour.
• The Fergesen coater is faster to set up and clean-up than any other production coaters with simple repeatable settings for coating thickness, impression pressure and stock thickness.
• Constructed with a heavy steel powder coated enclosure and frame, stainless steel covers, and high grade chromed steel and EPDM application rollers.
• Variable speed conveyor has all steel conveyor pulleys, industrial grade bearings and UV-resistant Teflon-coated belt.
• It includes PLC automation to allow for a wide range of programming options and can interface with a press or manufacturing equipment.

For information contact:
Dave Fergesen, President, Fergesen Design Company, Inc.
236 Hockenbury Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844
Phone: 908-369-7691, Fax: 908-369-8287
E-mail: Dave@FergesenDesign.com

Fergesen Design Releases Food-Safe Label Coatings for Digital Print and Flexographic Finishing

Hillsborough, New Jersey - October 18, 2010 - Specialty benzophenone-free, high-gloss and matte label coatings for food, wine, pharmaceuticals and chemicals have been developed by Fergesen Design Co, Inc. and are now being used in label production with a Hewlett Packard WS 4500 digital label press with an offline Rotoflex/ Mark Andy Vericut finishing system.

Fergesen Design was contacted via web site (www.FergesenDesign.com) by the label manufacturer to sort out difficulties with their existing coating, digital label press, and flexographic finishing system. The prior coating the label manufacturer rejected was unstable in the can and had the wrong application characteristics for the flexographic application process used in the Rotoflex unit. After testing the faulty coating and determining from HP, Rotoflex/Mark Andy and AAA Press Accessories what was necessary to meet the label manufacturer's requirements, Fergesen Design's laboratory developed two coatings for them.

These coatings are Fergesen Design FDX 1058 gloss and FDX 1059 matte. These coatings are designed to be used on metallized foil paper, semi-gloss paper, 2 mil clear BOPP and 3-mil MDO, after printing with HP inks on their WS 4500 digital press. Printed label stock is then taken to the Rotoflex (recently purchased by Mark Andy) Vericut finishing system. This unit has the following key components: unwind, flexographic coating station, die cutting station and rewind. It is an offline system capable of operating at 300 FPM and coats an 8 to 13 inch width printed web.

Based on the requirements of the label manufacturer's customer, the coated printed sheet must withstand abrasion, solvent, and heat resistance necessary to meet food, wine, pharmaceutical and chemical requirements. This must be accomplished with both a gloss coating and matte finish coating. Also the coating must meet European food and drug requirements and be benzophenone free.

After a year of review and testing, the label manufacturer has approved the coatings for all aspects of their unique process and reached complete customer satisfaction for the finished label.

For details and samples, contact Dave Fergesen.