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Your Quality Is Our Concern at FORUM & INFOFLEX 2024

Vibrant and vital, FORUM & INFOFLEX 2024 promise to surpass all expectations. Printers and consumer product companies demand it. FTA listens intently to their charge and plans to deliver exactly what they want. It all happens May 5-8 in Kansas City, MO.

FORUM & INFOFLEX, now both re-invigorated and re-energized, will stand out as more relevant than ever before. Global in reach, personal in appeal, it will set the stage for what’s about to transpire in the package printing and converting world. Presentations will reflect market realities. As an event, it’s far more than a conference to attend:

Passionate Partners

It’s all-inclusive and all-encompassing. FORUM & INFOFLEX is uniting everyone who shares your passion—people you know, people you recognize, people you engage and correspond with on a daily basis—your business partners, peers and collaborators.

Like you, they understand that it takes all members of the package product development chain—brand owners, designers, premedia specialists, printers/converters, manufacturers, distributors, educators; every mover and shaker affiliated with FTA, in any way, shape and form—to tackle the challenges before us and emerge better than ever, well-positioned to succeed moving forward.

Whether you’re buying, printing or supplying flexographic printing, FORUM & INFOFLEX has something for everyone. Anyone who is anybody in the package printing and converting industry is remiss if not planning to be there. FORUM & INFOFLEX 2024 will prove more critical to their business than some might realize and more essential to growth and prosperity than any past iteration.

Value is top notch, as quality is the ever-present concern. Continuous improvement will serve as a focal point in formulating action plans to address the aforementioned realities that demand our attention. Namely:

Program & Perspectives

CPCs will lay down their charge. Printers will reveal their real-life experiences and outline step-by-step procedures to follow in mirroring their efforts. Suppliers—be they manufacturers, trade shops, distributors, environmental and specialty services consultants, others too—will express their willingness to assist and offer details on how best to use their products/services in realizing specific objectives and addressing your own plant’s top priorities.

FORUM & INFOFLEX is your access point to a highly unique network—your fellow flexographers who are both like-minded and equally determined. Brainstorming opportunities abound. Use every minute on the INFOFLEX floor to network, network, network and network some more:

Remember too, networking opportunities at FORUM & INFOFLEX extend beyond the exhibit floor. Seize every opportunity available. Don’t miss both Monday and Tuesday lunches, the Monday Evening Social, Tuesday’s CPC Meet & Greet Reception on the INFOFLEX show floor, Sunday’s Awards Banquet and the pre-event FFTA Scholarship Golf Outing.

FORUM & INFOFLEX is your positioning tool. Its impact is strong; its messages inspirational.

Interactive Agenda

All processes and capabilities have a place on the extensive program. It kicks off with package buyers taking center stage. FORUM & INFOFLEX will give CPCs an opportunity to gain first-hand awareness of exactly what flexographers can do. They’ll learn of our processes and capabilities—special effects, specialty applications, customized packaging, more sustainable substrates. Plus, they can listen to briefs on toxicity of inks, hue angles, matching of brand colors and overall print quality consistency.

They’ll come to understand how we as an industry do our best to meet the needs of our customers. And, they’ll stand in unison and showcase the voice of the customer—yes, brand owners will lay out their print requirements then call on the industry to rise to the top and provide them with what they are looking for. Conversation will explore evolving capabilities and adapting to new demands. To a print audience, it’s akin to a keynote address.

Printers will quickly realize that their customer is getting the same education. Plus, suppliers are hearing what the printers’ needs are and what the CPC’s needs are. As a whole, the audience will learn how to deal with pending PFAS regulations, then be briefed on
projects taking place that prepare us for the future of package printing excellence.

Consumable trends will be outlined with presentations pointing to what suppliers are developing right now to make printers meet their objectives and keep us moving forward. Since color affects us all—brand owner, printer, supplier—consistency will come into clear view. Collectively, we’ll hear about the different workflows that make flexography what it is today and receive encouragement to move into automation, striving for continuous improvement.

At INFOFLEX, our network presence becomes elevated to extreme effects. Printers, package buyers and all interested will see the results being talked about in the Awards Gallery. Right in the aisles, they’ll seize the opportunity to explore everything they heard about and the best possible manner to put it into use.

They’ll collect extensive information on workflows or how to enhance their color output. Presses will be there. Components of press decks too, as will consumables—ink, substrate, printing plates, sleeves and more. Measurement devices will be showcased, software to streamline efficiencies and automate the plant to new heights is ready for exploration.

Make the most of the FORUM & INFOFLEX experience! Show your customer you care. Convey the message—their quality is your concern. Network every chance you have. Remember, it takes all of us to get better each and every day.

From critical assessments, and detailed success stories, visualize how to get there and how to achieve consistent repeatable results. Cover all points of the compass when it comes to the quality of the print coming off the presses. Participate in the open dialogue. Reinforce the idea that this is the place to be to do the most good for your operation.

Hard probing questions will be asked; penetrating; analytical answers furnished. Interdependencies will be illuminated. Broader implications will be apparent. Capitalize on the momentum. Keep talking about FTA, FORUM & INFOFLEX!

It’s all about a bigger, better event that’s extremely worth your while, constructed to cater to your expressed needs, integral to your success and universal or global in nature. It addresses the strong pulse of the industry, takes in its vital signs, redefines its limits and puts out actionable insights into the modern landscape.

Come away inspired, informed, and ready to push flexographic printing to new heights. FORUM & INFOFLEX 2024 opens the door to a world filled with opportunity.

Aisle by Aisle

INFOFLEX 2024 positions essential components of the flexographic print process—both new and standard bearers that have been strengthened and improved—side by side with each other. Solutions to perplexing challenges are there to be found. Networking is constant. New ideas are ripe for development. No matter the product on your must-see list, it is there to be found.

Here is a category-by-category look at the exhibitors who reserved space early and the products they are enthusiastically ready to speak to.

Anilox Rolls/Doctor Blades—Absolute Engineering, Agergaard Graphic Supplies GmbH, Apex International, Applied Laser Engineering Ltd, ARC International, Daetwyler Corp, Epsilon Composite, Flexo Concepts, FLXON, Harper Corporation of America, Interflex Laser Engravers, Rossini North America LLC, Troika Systems Ltd

Cleaning Systems—Anilox Roll Cleaning Systems, August Mink GmbH & Co KG, AV Flexologic bv, Eaglewood Technologies LLC, Flexo Wash, GAMA International SrL, Graymills Corp, Rotometal DBN Sp z.o.o., Ship & Shore Environmental Inc, Sonic Solutions LLC, US Flexo Solutions, Unilux Inc, Uprint Technologies

Converting Equipment/Finishing Systems—Ashe Converting Equipment, Breit Technologies, DIPCO, Erhardt + Leimer Inc, Kampf Machinery Corp, Madern USA Inc, Mamata Enterprises Inc, Martin Automatic Inc, Nordmeccanica NA Ltd, Precision AirConvey Corp, Vemax Maquinas S.A. DBA Vetech International LLC

Distributors—All Printing Resources, Anderson & Vreeland Inc

Inks—Flint Group, GEW Inc, INX International Ink Co, PAD Inkspec, Prime UV-IR Systems Inc, Siegwerk, SST Pioneering LED, Sun Chemical, Wikoff Color Corp

Inspection Devices—BST North America Inc, EyeC America, MicroDynamics LLC, Synaptik

Plates, Sleeves, Processors, Mounting Materials—Asahi Kasei Corp, Coim USA Inc, CSW Inc, Cyber Graphics, DuPont Specialty Products USA LLC, E.C. Shaw Co, Esko, Flexografix Inc, FUJIFILM North America Corp, Kaspar Graphic Solutions, Ligum North America LLC, Lohmann Technologies Corp, Luminite Products Corp, Miraclon Corp, OEC Graphics Inc, Olberding Brand Family, Polymount US, SGK, SGS & Co, tesa tape Inc, XSYS North America Corp

Press/Press Accessories—Allstein GmbH, Bobst North America, Heidelberg USA/Gallus USA Products, Koenig & Bauer, Kuen Yuh Machinery Engineering Co Ltd, Nilpeter, Novaflex Inc, Paper Converting Machine Co, SOMA spol sro, Tresu Americas, Uteco North America, Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp

Software—Color Management, Brand Management, Asset Management, Job Management, Workflow Systems—Color Consulting SrL, Colorware USA, Inc, Corbus LLC, GMG Americas, Grafikontrol North America, GTI Graphic Technology Inc, Hamillroad Software, Hybrid Software, Techkon USA, X-Rite/Pantone

INFOFLEX hours are set for Monday and Tuesday afternoons—May 6-7. Every minute spent on the floor is time well utilized.

Editor’s Note: To register for FORUM & INFOFLEX 2024 or find additional details relevant to the program, presenters, sessions, schedule, exhibitor list, Innovation Central Program, sponsors and more, please visit forum.flexography.org.

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