Stephen P. Mullins, a package printing professional for 40+ years and past chairman of FTA’s Excellence in Flexography Awards Committee, passed away in early August, one month shy of his 65th birthday. Two years earlier, he closed out a 40+ career in package printing and converting.
Flint Group announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its XSYS division, which specializes in the development and supply of printing plates, sleeves and adapters, and prepress equipment to the packaging industry, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm.
FFTA Rossini North America Flexographic Research Scholarship recipient Alice Ish shares research into bar coding for recycling and brand spot colors.
2021 marks the 30-year anniversary of the creation of Flexo Wash by Henning Kongstad. In 30 years, this family-owned business now employs 50 cleaning experts at their Denmark headquarters and produces cleaning machines for the print industry worldwide.
With augmented reality support, service specialists follow exactly what a local technician sees—in real time.
Examining strength, printability, adhesion and lamination properties of water-based inks in flexible packaging applications.
Westpak walks through the print job that earned it a Best of Show in the 2021 FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards.
Hybrid technology provides the best of both worlds—the efficiency and variation afforded with digital and the endless option and configurability for which flexography is known.
Comexi, a specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging printing and converting industry, and Strong SA, a company that specializes in the production of flexible packaging, have reached an agreement for the Uruguayan company to acquire a high productive Comexi S1 DT. The new slitter, which will be installed at the Montevideo facility, will allow Strong SA to automate more processes in the immediate future.
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD), a leading global provider of marketing and business communications services including packaging solutions, will introduce its end-to-end, single-source folding carton service at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2021.