Participants at the conference in Damme
The Flexo roundtable held by Flint Group saw a record number of attendees, around 120 participants, flock to the conference venues in Damme (Lower Saxony, Germany) and Fichtenau (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany).
One of the key subjects of the event was the new rotec lightweight sleeve, which was presented to conference members before its launch to the market. This new generation of hard-coated sleeves for conventional plate mounting with adhesive tapes offers weight savings up to 40% compared to standard sleeves and meets a range of customers’ requirements in the mid to wide web and pre-print sector. Now, maximum weight limits in the pressroom, shorter and easier press set ups or missing adapter configurations can easily be managed.
The entire sleeve edge is sealed with an aluminium plate, which protects the sleeve from exposure to cleaning liquids, inks or solvents and prevents unnatural diameter growth of the sleeve. The new sleeves are available in rotec Omega Surface technology for use of solvent based inks as well as other well known features like the rotec stainless steel register ring.
The nyloflex FTF digital plate was introduced to the market in 2015 and offers complexity reduction and efficiency gain for the reproduction of flat top dots, as it can be processed like any standard digital plate. A special surface texture eliminates the need for time consuming surface screening.
The conference programme was completed with lectures around the subjects of cleansing and SAS smart anilox systems given by Flexo Wash and Sandon Global, as well as an exchange of participants’ experiences.
