The Gallus Group, originally formed as Schuster & Co. in 1925, produced a hand-powered printing press, which became their first label press, the Gallus Junior. In 1950, they introduced the first Gallus flexographic self-adhesive label press at the graphics trade fair in Chicago. In 2014, after previously acquiring a percentage of the company, Heidelberg fully acquired Gallus making it a Heidelberg company. The company is now embarking on its next 100 years with a new vision and corresponding expandable and configurable ecosystem. This relationship with Heidelberg provides a central role in Heidelberg’s long term vision of an expanded role in packaging.

Gallus just introduced their new System to Compose platform. It is designed with their vision of complete flexibility to manage both the specific and constantly changing packaging requirements of brands and converters.

Historically, Gallus and many of the other flexo printer manufacturers have offered different models with different fixed feature and speed configurations. Many of them, including Gallus, offered various options in the configuration. However, to date none have offered a flexible platform that can be configured to the specific needs of today and the changes of tomorrow. With the new platform, Gallus offers a menu of compatible and configurable base solutions around speed and width for print and converting that can be combined with optional modules, almost like LEGO, to build a tailored production solution.