Suppliers Applaud Flexographic Printer/Converter Promise & Potential for 2019
Priorities, advantages, impact—suppliers are pressing flexographic printers and converters to focus on this trio of overarching concerns in 2019. They claim doing so will help advance the industry, facilitate moving out on 10 commonly cited strategic directions, enhance flexography’s competitive posture and maintain its position as packaging’s print process of choice. Included in that top […]
Bringing the Year Together: FTA, Flexography & the Industry Continued to Grow in 2018
The phrase “Bringing It All Together” may have only applied to the four days of Forum 2018—after all, that was its official theme. But the idea extended both before and after the early May event, with flexographers seeing it play out during the entire year. From Forum and INFOFLEX in May, to Labelexpo Americas in […]
Comexi Hosts Successful Seminar in São Paulo, Brazil
GIRONA, Spain—Comexi, a global leader in the flexible packaging industry, held a seminar in São Paulo, Brazil, with almost 100 professionals from 32 companies participating. The event, held at the Holiday Inn Parque Anhembi Hotel in São Paulo, was led by Comexi and the Manel Xifra Boada Technology Center (CTec). Comexi sent its best technicians and […]
FQC/SWG Updates: Wrapping Up 2018 with a Fall Overview & Look to Next Year
For the Standards Working Group (SWG), the fall of 2018 saw a large number of ballots moving through from the documents that were to be completed prior to the fall plenary meetings of ISO TC 130, held Oct. 14-19 at Kikai Shinko Kaikan Building in Tokyo, Japan. Below are the actions that have occurred since […]
The Contract Proof: Simulating Color Rendition & Minimum Printable Dot
It may seem like a very obvious question, but do you know how important a reliable contract proof is? Contract tests are the subject of interest for many printers and plate suppliers. The objective of these tests is clear: They must reliably simulate the real result of our sample printed on the machine. But the […]
Sun Chemical Names Myron Petruch President & Chief Executive Officer
PARSIPPANY, NJ—Sun Chemical has appointed Myron Petruch as its president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Petruch assumes leadership of Sun Chemical after serving as president of Sun Chemical Performance Pigments and general manager of the Pigments Products Division since 2008. He succeeds Rudi Lenz, who will transition to the new role of […]
FQC/SWG Updates: We Want You! The Standards Working Group Is Looking for Your Expert Input & Feedback
The Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC) established the Standards Working Group (SWG) to both inform the membership of developing standards that may affect our industry and to seek input on those proposals so our voices would be heard during the development process. Dr. Danny Rich of Sun Chemical is currently the leader of the SWG. FTA […]
FTA Europe Announces 2018 Diamond Award Winners
MILAN, Italy—The 2018 FTA Europe Diamond Awards took place on Wednesday evening, May 30, at the Hotel Barceló in Milan and proved to be a great success. Two hundred and forty individuals from across the European flexographic community attended the ceremony to celebrate the best of the European flexo industry during the Print4All fair. FTA […]
FQC/SWG Updates: New Projects & Spring Meeting Notes
A special thank you to all of the presenters at the Flexo Quality Consortium’s (FQC) session at Forum 2018! It was well attended and received. Titled, “Cultivating Our Future Through Research,” it offered a look at promising initiatives, presentations from a pair of FTA scholarship recipients and more. As mentioned at Forum, two members have […]
Sun Chemical Marks 200th Anniversary
It was hard to miss at INFOFLEX 2018—first booth inside the door—the second you stopped, you quickly learned it had a story to tell. Sun Chemical announced it was celebrating its 200th anniversary throughout the rest of 2018, impactful graphics and carefully construed messaging jumped out from the white-walled backdrop of the display. It garnered […]
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