Anderson & Vreeland Celebrates 50th Anniversary

In the 1960s, A&V supplied rubber and matrix, the main application for making flexo printing plates. The company also serviced and manufactured equipment used in the rubber platemaking process, including hydraulic molding presses.

In the mid-1970s, sheet polymer material was introduced to the flexo industry. Anderson & Vreeland quickly became an innovative leader in the manufacture of equipment that processed photopolymer plates. The company addressed environmental and ecological issues long before it was fashionable to do so, introducing fumeless plate processors, UV-light detack units, and environmentally-safe washout alternatives to the harmful chemicals used to process flexo plates. In the late 1990s, Anderson & Vreeland introduced Cosmolight®, said to be the world’s first water-wash flexo plate from Toyobo. A&V also introduced the equipment required to process water-wash flexo plates, reducing the industry’s reliance on solvent-wash plates.