The company will launch the brand new Omega VSR vertical slitter rewinder with servo drive tension control package. This will be joined by an Omega converting line with 1000mm diameter unwind, motorised reel lift, web guide, rotary die cutting, and slitting coupled with a Vectra STR with constant end support for 19mm mandrels and new generation core loader. Also featuring will be an Omega SR1300 slitter inspection rewinder with fleyeVision electronic, 100% print face camera inspection system.

There is also a first time showing in the Southern Hemisphere of the Omega Digicon Series 2 label converting line for wine label production fully specified with foiling, laminating, flatbed embossing/die cutting, flexo and screen-printing. Currie Group will show this model on its adjacent stand number H10.

"We are bringing a total of five machines to PacPrint and will have a strong presence at this event in partnership with our distributors in the region," said Mark Hyde of AB Graphic International. "Currie Group for the Digicon range and Universal Print Partners for the Omega, Vectra and Flytec inspection slitter rewinders in Australia, plus AM International who handle both products lines in New Zealand".

AB Graphic International is a worldwide supplier of label converting and finishing machines with facilities in the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and United States. The company offers a full range of converting lines either standard or tailored to requirements. New products include the Digicon Series 2 modular label converter, the Digicoat to prepare substrates for digital printing, the Digilam film laminator and the FSR film rewinder. Specialised applications include pharmaceutical converting lines, 100% web inspection, off-line RFID, booklet labelling and Braille machines. In 2007 the company was named official supplier of label converting systems for the HP digital print engine.