Flexo for Short Runs

It's a service arrangement that Kevin Florence, GENflex's president and chief executive officer, expects to continue over the long term—more specifically, with flexo as the meat of the company's print operations, and digital as the potatoes. Though digital has proved highly compelling for short-run, multiple-version packaging applications, recent advances in flexo press technology have made the latter process highly competitive for GENflex's frequent changeover work, with the added benefit of significantly faster throughput. "With our newest [flexo] press easily able to achieve throughput speeds roughly five times that of our newest digital press, and considering the current make-up of our work load, it is hard to imagine that digital output will exceed our flexo output for the foreseeable future," Florence states.