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Gallus opens doors to new industry facility, celebrating 100th anniversary and unveiling new solutions to power a digital transformation

St. Gallen, June 20, 2023 – Gallus Group, a subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG), is the leading company in the development, production, and sale of conventional and digital narrow-web and reel-fed presses for the label printing industry. Today, it is celebrating its 100th anniversary by opening its doors to a brand-new industry hub in St. Gallen, Switzerland – the Gallus Experience Center – which is designed to serve as an industry touchpoint for customers, industry experts, stakeholders and members of the public, to drive market transformation. Importantly, Gallus is also utilizing its centenary celebrations to announce the launch of three new products across its portfolio: the HEIDELBERG Customer Portal, the new Gallus One with Converting, and a digital upgrade to the company’s successful Gallus ECS 340.
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Heidelberg focuses on growing label market and strengthens Gallus sites

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is further expanding its commitment to the growing label market. As part of this, the Gallus Group sites in Switzerland and Germany have already been strengthened through targeted investments and divided into competence centers. The next step will be to reorganize the headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and develop it into a competence center for digital label printing.
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Gallus delivers fifth Labelmaster to Nordvalls in Scandinavia

Gallus Ferd. Rüesch AG has ordered its fifth Gallus Labelmaster 440 Advanced – a 10-colour flexo press with two screen printing stations – at Scandinavian adhesive label specialist, Nordvalls. As part of a five-year plan with the goal of upgrading and to drive increased press consistency, Nordvalls set an earlier date for the installation of their fourth and most recently installed Labelmaster to meet increased demand from customers. Now the fifth is on its way in the space of five years.
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Gallus Labelmaster for Faubel Group

Faubel & Co. Nachf. GmbH, based in Melsungen, Germany, is expanding its machine park with a Gallus Labelmaster. The Gallus Labelmaster convinces the company group particularly in terms of simplicity, speed and safety. Faubel will mainly produce multi-layer labels for the pharmaceutical sector on the Gallus Labelmaster.
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Gallus Classics – Pre-owned label printing presses and original spare parts directly from the manufacturer

Investment-proof and productive production with used Gallus presses too– this enables Gallus Classics, the division of Gallus serving the preowned machinery market. With refurbished machines as well as a spare parts service for older machine systems and other services, Gallus Classics offers a comprehensive portfolio for second-hand Gallus machines.
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Food-compliant label production with the Gallus Labelfire Low Migration

Enabling the production of certified food-compliant labels with the Gallus Labelfire: The low migration version of the Gallus Labelfire is designed to produce food-compliant packaging in accordance with EU regulations and Swiss Ordinance. For this purpose, the joint Gallus/Heidelberg development team developed the Labelfire UVLM ink series, which is suitable for food contact packaging.
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"Labels have and will always be in demand" - Interview with Flexon

Flex ON, spol. s r.o. (Flexon) has been in the market since 1994. They provide their customers full service in manufacturing self-adhesive labels and flexible packaging. Flexon mainly uses Gallus machines from Switzerland. Another investment Flexon made after many years of working with Gallus, or Heidelberg, is the digital Gallus Labelfire 340. We talked with printing company owner Martin Chaluš about the market, Gallus machines and the new Labelfire.
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First Labelfire in New Zealand at PhilStic

The latest investment of PhilStic, a family owned company in New Zealand, is a new Gallus Labelfire 340. It is the first Labelfire in New Zealand after two machine system being installed in Australia. PhilStic celebrates the installation as well as its 40th anniversary in operation with a ceremony in August 2021.
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Investment in two Gallus Labelmaster at HP-ETIKETT

Double investment in Gallus quality at the German print shop HP-ETIKETT: two new Gallus Labelmaster with LED-UV curing from GEW - a 5-colour and 8-colour flexo press - expand the capacity for the production of self-adhesive labels. With this extensive investment, the German family-run company counts on LED UV technology as well as the flexibility of the modular machine system.
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Dario Urbinati is new Head of Sales at Gallus

Dario Urbinati will take over as Head of Sales at Gallus, starting from 1st June 2021. The new Head of Sales is a familiar face at the Swiss long-established company. Dario Urbinati already worked for Gallus in his professional career, from June 2007 to August 2016, e.g. as Managing Director of the, at that time newly established, sales and service organization Gallus South East Asia.
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