Satish Wakchaure established Saicom Systems, Mumbai in 1998 offers tailor-made Flexo presses as per the customer’s requirement. Saicom has tied up Ruiting Machinery Co.Ltd. (China) as their technology partner for selling, installing and servicing flexo presses in India. Labels Flexibles and More spoke to Satish Wakchaure, CEO and owner of Saicom Systems, about the engineering of the flexo presses and UV LED curing systems and his technology tie-ups.
Satish Wakchaure completed his Bachelor of Computer Science BCS (Software) from Pune University and his DBM and MBA from Wellingkar Mumbai. He has worked with industry pioneers like Hewlett Packard, Olivetti, and Interlabels Sato Barcode. He also acquired knowledge of developing smart card semiconductor technology, which is used in ticket vending machines at railways and petrol pumps.
Ruian Ruiting Machinery, China, manufactures all its flexographic presses to Grade 4 precision standards, emphasizing superior quality, durability, and long-term performance. The machines feature high-precision hardened gears designed to deliver reliable operation and an extended service life of 15+ years. Grade 4 precision corresponds to ISO 1328-1:2013 Grade 4 and DIN 3962 Grade 4, with approximately equivalent AGMA Class 12 accuracy. Such precision gears are widely used in high-speed reducers, robotic joints, aerospace systems, machine-tool spindle drives, and high-speed pumps, reflecting their suitability for demanding, high-precision industrial applications.
INDIA’S FIRST SERVO DOUBLE TOWER FLEXO ALL IN ONE FLEXO PRESS
Full Servo with ARC Double Tower Flexo Press with Chill Drum & Wrinkle Rollers printing 12-15 Micron PET Film, 20 Micron BOPP, 30 Micron Shrink Sleeves, IML Labels.
The Only Tower Model Servo Press printing on 12-15 Micron PET and thin films in India.
Label Manufacturer can Replace their old 320 mm Tower Flexo with this New Servo Double Tower and use old Print, Magnetic & Anilox Roller. 100% Saving on Toolings.
Flexo Press Life 15 Years
Printing Capacity 1 – 1.50 Lakh sq.meter material per month.
Return on Investment 2 years.
Two Installations in India.
INDIA”S FIRST VISUAL CAMERA REGISTRATION 100% PERFECT REGISTRATION BY SaiFlexo
- On Double / Triple Servo Flexo Press Visual Camera Registration is a Camera fitted on every print unit for Printing Registration. In Every Printing Plate 3 Dots are made in specific format and printed on material.
- Visual Camera Registration is Latest Technology its Camera Capture 3 Dots of Different Colors printed on every print station at specific distance and format on plate and sends signal to PLC.
- These 3 dots printed on print unit after capturing the PLC shows the registration on separate video monitor with 8 windows. When 3 Dots show Green color Registration is 100% while Red dot shows Registration is in Process.
- When all print station Dots are green then it is saved in memory as Master File to achieve registration till the job is completed no need to change registration values when job is ON, it saves huge wastage.
- Visual Camera is Highly Beneficial then old technology Single Sensor Auto Registration Control. In Single color Sensor it senses the single color mark (sensing only not image capturing like camera) not efficient like Visual Camera. In Single Sensor the Registration mark + is achieved which is displayed on Video Inspection Monitor while Visual Camera has additional Video Monitor which displays eight small windows.
- Flexo Press Life 15 Years
- Printing Capacity 1.50 – 2.00 Lakh sq.meter material per month.
- Return on Investment 3 years.
Speaking about their SaiFlexo presses, Satish said, “Saicom System makes machinery as per label printers’ requirements and with assembling the best technology—every machine is designed as per the printer’s input information. There are no standard machines, but everything is customised, everything is tailor-made, and customer consideration is 100%.”
SaiLED SYSTEM THE ONLY 100% SUCCESSFUL LED CURING IN INDIA.
Talking about the SaiLED, he said, “SaiLED is a UV LED curing system developed tailor-made for Label printers on Flexo press with Seoul Semiconductor Korea original LED chip and unique user-friendly P.L.C. program along with top quality electronically controlled water chiller synchronized with LED curing.”
“SaiLED is a state-of-the-art LED curing designed with the best LED diodes and Surface Mounted Technology (SMT). The LED diodes, which are a minimum of 30-32 watts/cm2, give a heavy dose of ultraviolet intensity to cure ink at wavelengths of 385nm, 395nm, and 405nm. The LED placement and packaging design of the LED chip set makes it a unique LED. SaiLED is the ONLY LED System cures all difficult LED inks, varnishes and adhesive easily at 150 m/min speed. Whule other LED system cures basic CMYK ink or a few special colour inks but UNABLE to cure thicker varnishes and adhesive for cold stamping and lamination.”
“Our team consists of software and electronic engineers who are experienced with higher-end electronics and programming. Our tailor-made LED curing system chips are acquired from Seoul Semiconductor Co.Ltd., South Korea; the system is developed with proper HMI and PLC. We have been using the same LED curring for our Flexo press for the last 6 years. Unlike the low-capacity LED Chip curing, our LED Chips does not require UV mercury for curing varnishes and adhesives.”
SaiFlexo offers a comprehensive range of printing and converting equipment to meet diverse industry requirements. Its portfolio includes single, double, and triple servo flexographic presses with advanced visual camera registration systems in 6–10 colours, as well as main servo presses with mechanical registration in 4–10 colours and the latest double-tower servo flexo presses in 6–8 colours. The company also offers flatbed rotary punching machines for labels and IML labels with conveyors, label slitter rewinders, turret slitter rewinders, and various types of jumbo slitters. Its range further includes plate mounting machines, flexo plate cleaning systems, anilox cleaning machines, corona treaters, label video inspection machines for fault detection, and ancillary equipment for roll-form printing.
“The unique thing in SaiFlexo + SaiLED Servo and mechanical Presses is we give Chill drums, LED curing, which allows us to print 12-micron PET films, 35-micron Shrink PVC, 60-micron IML label quickly at speed between 80-150 meters/min. Our demo centre is in Bhiwandi, Mumbai; anyone can see the machine. Many label printers have done small printing jobs to check the printing quality.”
“The ROI on our SaiFlexo + SaiLED is hardly three years. We talk about ₹ 2.50 per sq. meter machine cost and ₹ 0.50 per sq. meter electricity power. It means the Label printer has to pay ONLY ₹ 3.00 per sq. meter.” concludes Satish.
