Produced for luxury fashion brand The Rake, the entry won UK-based Victory and Caps a Silver award for its creative use of graphic design in a successful conversion to flexo from offset. Victory used a single Kodak Flexcel NX Plate to create the black-and-white, photographic-quality image, with its mix of highlights and dark shadows. The entry is an example of the ‘unboxing’
The packaging and label converter, based in Hattar, required a plate imaging and processing system that could produce both flexo (60 percent) and offset (40 percent) plates. Flexcel NX System’s hybrid option met all its requirements. Khalid Aziz Shah, CEO of Raqam International Canada, KSA and Pakistan, said: ‘With two Flexcel NX Systems already installed at our production
Parwez Izhar, CEO - Cylinders Business, Uflex, said: ‘For our in-house packaging printing, Flexcel NX plates enable us to convert an increasing number of jobs from gravure to flexo; underscoring our commitment to produce sustainable flexible packaging without impacting on quality. We also expect to see additional benefit from quicker make-ready times and minimizing wastage by
Established in 2014, Siflex Packaging now has 52 experienced employees working in a 5,000sqm facility located in the northern part of the capital, Santiago. Luis Sirhan, founder and general manager of Siflex Packaging, explained that choosing the Flexcel NX System was the only option he considered, as he had already experienced its advantages firsthand when working for another
Chris Payne, Miraclon CEO, commented: ‘Securing supply for our customers is our overriding priority. After weighing a combination of factors, we are taking two separate actions, because there are two different market forces at work. First, we’re raising the price of all our products to address the higher costs for raw materials, labor, utilities, and business services we are