Benefits from today’s anilox rolls include dot gain reduction, improved color quality, and longer roll life

By Tom Polischuk

Lessing—Overseas competition is not affecting our business in a negative way; if anything, it is helping us: Apex Group has built very strong relationships with OEMs around the world, so many times, when a machine enters the North American market, we have our anilox rolls/sleeves already installed on the machine—a nice door opener, as you could imagine. In fact, it is due to this that Apex North America opened its doors here in the first place. With all of the good suppliers already in the U.S., it would have been unreasonable to assume that a converter would send his business back to Europe or Asia. So we simply decided, “If you can’t beat ‘em, why not join ‘em.” We have not looked back since.