Entries are now being accepted for the 2022 installments of FTA’s three industry-wide award competitions that recognize the best in flexography for achievements in printing excellence, technical innovation and sustainability efforts.
Flexo Wash is excited to introduce the Spanish language version of its new website.
ASL Print FX, with three North American locations, has earned an impressive 83 technical awards over the last 10 years—primarily for the high-end labels it produces for the wine and spirits market. To continuously earn such high honors requires the right “cocktail” of ingredients, which for ASL includes both its highly skilled operators and three Gallus presses installed at its Vaughn, Ontario location. Based on this previous success, ASL recently added a 10-color Gallus RCS 330 from Heidelberg to fuel growth and add versatility at its Napa, CA plant.
Domino produced a video to celebrate ASL Print FX in its success, growth and winning formula for providing “brand differentiation” for customers.
Rol-Tec has completed construction of a 15,700 sq. ft. addition to its Green Bay headquarters where it manufactures rubber covered rollers, metal roller bases, laser-engraved flexographic sleeves, and tungsten carbide roller coatings for printing, industrial and converting operations throughout North America. The company is also a unique manufacturer of custom cast urethane parts for a variety of industrial applications.
Throughout much of 2020 and 2021, label and packaging converters alike have experienced tremendous demand for both their products and for shorter turnaround times from customers needing to keep grocery store shelves filled. As a result of this demand, Heidelberg has seen an uptick in its customers seeking to upgrade and add new Gallus narrow web presses to their production floors. Customers in the US, Canada, and Mexico have installed various Gallus presses in locations across North America over the past 18 months—with many customers installing the Gallus RCS, ECS, and Labelmaster machines.
Miraclon announced the 13 winners of the Global Flexo Innovation Awards, which recognize businesses that are driving the transformation of the flexographic industry with the help of KODAK FLEXCEL NX Technology.
DuPont Cyrel Solutions introduces the new Cyrel Lightning plate family at the FTA’s Fall Conference 2021 in Frisco, TX. These new printing plates are optimized for UV LED exposure systems, such as the Esko XPS Crystal, to make full use of these systems’ capabilities. The benefits of the plates include a further optimized match between access time and plate performance, while not compromising the print quality.
Zecher GmbH, a global manufacturer of anilox rollers made of chrome and ceramics, is expanding its production capacity by 25 percent with the acquisition of an additional ceramic coating machine.
Continued development of the flexographic printing process has yielded significant improvements.