The kit will be installed at the company's pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging business, Medica Packaging, based in Crewe, Cheshire. 

Benson Group managing director Mark Kerridge said he did not know of any other business in the UK offering this single site production focus for pharmaceutical customers.

He said: "Single site production helps to ensure consistency of print quality across all elements.

"We are now able to offer pharmaceutical customers the creation of cartons, leaflets and labels."

The seven-colour Gallus EM340S UV-Flexographic press has a wide range of label production formats, including reverse printing, printing on adhesive and edge slit.

Print production will use Benzophenone-free, low-odour printing inks, suited for both food and pharmaceutical packaging.

The Scantech rewind machine is equipped with the latest 100% vision inspection technology, meaning it inspects every label 100% of the time. It can also verify barcodes and consecutively number each label – all in one pass.

Labels and leaflets manager at the Medica plant, Charlie McGrath, will oversee the label production department.

He has 25 years of label production experience and has previously worked in the production of pharmaceutical labels at MY Healthcare and Field Boxmore.

Benson Group is a privately-owned printed carton supplier headquartered in Bardon, Leicestershire, and has annual sales of around £93m.