WILTSHIRE, UK—In December 2017, Troika Systems Limited officially marked 21 years in business. As a company, Troika has been through many changes and developments in those years.
The company started off as a one-man business in the spare room of its founders home, Phil Hall, who is also the owner and managing director, has taken the company from its humble beginnings to become a global leader in providing state-of-the-art quality control 2D and 3D microscopes for the flexographic and gravure print packaging industry.
Hall has been involved in the print industry for almost 40 years, starting as support technician for Crosfield Electronics on the early color separation scanners in the 1980s, then progressed into sales and marketing over the intervening years.
Working closely with a variety of universities and Troika’s development team, Phil has led the company to being a leader in measurement instruments, for anilox and gravure engravings, globally. His proudest achievement was, through collaborative work with Swansea University, working out a proven accurate standard of measurement for aniloxes.
The company reports that Troika products are important for checking the integrity of anilox rolls, gravure cylinders and flexo plates before the print run to ensure good quality print output, efficiency and accuracy capturing the data and automatically collating it into easy-to-read reports with graphics for analysis. The Plate-II-Print HD units, recently modified and improved, strive to offer customers even more accuracy and quality control over their printing flexo plates and print.
AniCAM with its QC products measure the surface profile of the anilox rolls, gravure cylinders, sleeves and plates used to deliver the correct volume of ink to the material to be printed, helping to save press setup time, reduce waste and increase profits.
This year, Troika reports it saw its largest ever single order for its flagship product the AniCAM with Anilox QC, and that more than 900 AniCAMs and 1,000 Plate-II-Print units have been sold to date to the label, wide web, corrugated and security print markets globally.