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In the past ten years alone, Palmas has navigated an impressive succession of major operational changes, all designed to more effectively serve present and future customers. In 2006, the company transitioned its production capabilities from Juncos, Puerto Rico to Melbourne, Fla. in order to consolidate its facility within a larger, 30,000-sq.-ft. plant environment. Concurrent with the production move, Palmas discontinued all gravure and letterpress printing in favor of flexo printing. Says Love, "In recent years the quality of flexo has improved dramatically, challenging gravure and letterpress, which are both more expensive and slower to make ready and run on ever smaller and varied orders." He adds, "Our focus has been on higher volume applications and we chose to concentrate on flexo some years ago. We see our water-based and UV flexo capabilities carrying us well into the future."