ML2 evolution

All-in-One-Laminator

The versatility, productivity, and jaw-dropping design of the new Comexi ML2 Evolution makes this laminator your foremost partner. Broaden your portfolio of flexible packaging products with the ML2's wide range of lamination and coating options, which include: lamination with solvent, solventless, water, wax, EB or UV adhesives, holography, mark-to-mark world-class register for matt or glossy effects, cold seal, heat seal, endless coatings and many more.

Enjoy the best 4.0 platform of the market: intuitive menus, real-time and historical production data, most advanced ordering of spare parts online, job recipes, a comprehensive maintenance manual, automatic alarms to ensure the best preventive maintenance, and remote 24/7 assistance with smart glasses.

Main benefits for you

* 3-Roller Lamination NIP

To achieve the best performance for all laminations: optimal optics, absence of curling, and smoothness of bond strength across the web.

* Application trolleys

All kinds of adhesives and coatings can be applied with our state-of-the-art trolleys. Simply change from one trolley to another with the (semi?) automatic clamping system and begin applying adhesives, coating, as well as inks (full coverage or register), comprised of any natural chemical (solvent based, water based, solventless EB, UV, and wax).

Multiple coating solutions for a broad range of applications:

• Gravure Trolley: For full coverage or register use with solvent and water based adhesives as well as lacquers. With an extremely robust design, this trolley is not only very easy to use, but also maintains cleanliness, due to its teflon adhesive tray and removal extensors.
• Solventless Trolley: For use to coat solvent less adhesives. This trolley is easy and rapidly performs on board job changeovers, in less than one minute, due to its sleeve technology. The full integration of the main screen mixer functionalities allows for a rapid and swift automatic cleaning sequence, with the aid of a fully motorized coating side.
• Semiflexo Trolley: For use with solvent or water based adhesives and lacquers, this trolley allows for the application of numerous variations of coating weights (up to 20 gsm) without the need to change rollers.
• Flexo Trolley: For full coverage or register use with solvent or water based adhesives as well as lacquers. This trolley has the world-recognized Comexi flexographic gearless technology and is equipped with carbon fibre mandrels in order to avoid a bouncing effect. It is equipped with an automatic self-cleaning pump system that allows a job to be changed in under 10 minutes.
• Enclosed Doctor Blade Chamber: Uniquely designed for full coverage of water based lacquers and adhesives. The transparency of the final lamination and coating is essentially unsurpassable. This trolley is equipped with an automatic self-cleaning pump system that allows a job to be changed in under 10 minutes.
• Wax Coating: Specially designed to apply wax / paraffin coatings with extreme accuracy and homogeneity.

* Mark-to-Mark High Precision Register Control

When applying coatings at register, which is also maintained with join splices and stretchable films, the top mark-to-mark register control of the ML2 Evolution provides the highest of accuracies. The front to reverse eye-mark reading revolver system allows for instantaneous change of the reading direction. Furthermore, COMEXI offers the possibility to work with the cylinders of each customer, thus adapting to customized sizes and repetitions.

* Aluminium Foil Kit

This foil kit integrates high technical solutions to achieve perfect aluminium lamination, including those with very thin gauges.

• Mechanical stopper: avoids materials breakage and wrinkling, as a result of perfect sleeve pressure control and coating smoothness.
• Hard anodized rollers: high resistance rollers for durability extension.
• Adjustable skewing rollers: avoids wrinkling and flapping.
• Pre-conditioning calender: preheats the alufoil to prevent and avoid wrinkling and quality issues, due to NIP thermal shock.

* Fully Integrated Closed-Loop Coating Weight Sensor

The ML2 Evolution has in-line grammage measurement, which automatically reads the coating weight without the need of sampling (start-stop-check-start), thus optimizing jobs and reducing downtime.

In regard to solventless adhesives, COMEXI has a unique complete closed-loop system:  the machine automatically regulates the weight of the coating without intervention by an operator.

* Comexi Cloud

The perfect tool for plant managers. The Comexi Cloud 4.0 is a system that provides immediate data access, including that of: production, peripherical equipment, machine settings, productivity, operator’s performance, and customer orders among other relevant information. At each meter, this software will save the machines’ parameters, thus not only improving quality control and full traceability, but directly controlling costs as well. As a result of the Comexi Cloud on-line platform, customers are able to consult data from anywhere, at any time. This includes real time production information, historical data, automatic reports, and KPI'. Additionally, at anytime, the COMEXI-ORDERING-ON-LINE platform allows customers to directly click-and-buy any component from the machine / desktop.

* Modular Drying Tunnel

The most configurable drying tunnel, of 6 or 9 meters, is available with independent drying zones and recirculation, which can adapt to all drying requirements and heating sources (gas, electrical, and thermal).  The drying tunnel is also available with removable drying nozzles, offering quick cleaning and maintenance.