The Power of Proliferation

Exopack’s global converting perspective—born of its UK-based production facility and its Global Packaging Linx (GPL) strategic initiative, which aims to procure flexible packaging solutions from a select network of packaging manufacturers worldwide and in turn keeping costs to customers as low as possible—enables it to maintain a broader view of where flexo and gravure technologies are headed. “The flexo market is better in the U.S.,” notes Welter. “Changeover is faster, changeover and uptime are even more important, and clean-up between jobs is automated.”