Flint Group Packaging Announces Advanced Offerings at Labelexpo Europe 2019
Brussels, Belgium, September 13, 2019 – As a result of the combined strength of Flint Group Narrow Web, Flint Group Image Transfer Solutions, and Xeikon (member of Flint Group Digital Printing Solutions), we are excited to demonstrate for customers our unique and advanced offerings that deliver customer earnings and productivity beyond what other suppliers can provide.
The combined creativity of Xeikon Prepress and Flint Group Flexographic has delivered a revolutionary integrated prepress solution for highly automated imaging devices. These two businesses are excited to share the details of the expanded ThermoFlexX brand across all products. This offering builds on the outstanding success of ThermoFlexX digital imagers and Woodpecker Nano screening technology and the highest quality flexographic plate, nyloflex®. This innovative solution will combine Xeikon's comprehensive imaging expertise and Flint Group's long experience in the development of flexographic plates in order to provide significant increases in productivity in the press-room; a solution that is better, faster and easier to use.
Flint Group Narrow Web will present new offerings to help converters expand their capabilities in on-press colour management, and consider business growth in short run flexible food packaging. Announcements will include VIVO ColourSolutions linkage with dispensers, and the expansion of the system to cover more printing-ink series. VIVO ColourSolutions is the world’s most accurate, versatile and easy to use colour management system and Flint Group Narrow Web is delighted to introduce customers to the web based system for achieving colour right the first time on press. Also on display at the show will be the most comprehensive UV LED Curing inks, including those for food packaging compliant applications. With over 25% of all printing applications in EMEA being for the food industry, we are proud to share with our customers the inks and solutions to enable their growth in short runs of flexible food packaging.
For Flint Group Digital Solutions, Xeikon features a wide portfolio of digital label printing solutions, including entry level as well as high productivity production lines from start to finish. There will be demonstrations on the latest innovative power of Xeikon’s X-800 workflow tools driving a number of digital presses using both inkjet and toner technologies and demonstrating food safety for flexible packaging and stand up pouches.
About Flint Group
Flint Group is dedicated to serving the global printing and packaging industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets an extensive portfolio of printing consumables and printing equipment, including:
a vast range of conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for most offset, flexographic and gravure applications; pressroom chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing; photopolymer printing plates and sleeves, plate-making equipment and flexographic sleeve systems; pigments and additives for use in inks and other colorant applications; Flint Group also designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital color presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing, as well as commercial printing as well as platemaking equipment for the newspaper industry and computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for the commercial printing market; With a strong customer focus, unmatched service and support, and superior products, Flint Group strives to provide exceptional value, consistent quality and continuous innovation to customers around the world. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Flint Group employs some 7500 people. Revenues for 2018 were € 2.1 billion. On a worldwide basis, the company is the number one or number two supplier in every major market segment it serves. For more information, please visit www.flintgrp.com.
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