Green Go-Getters

In 2008 (just a year after Southeastern's Forest Stewardship Council certification and Green ink program launch), the company relocated its flexo operations to a new facility in Palm City, Fla. (Offset printing operations remain at its Stuart, Fla. headquarters.) In 2009, continued growth of its flexographic label business prompted yet another expansion to a new facility in Naperville, Ill. That same year, Southeastern outfitted the Naperville facility with a new, 52˝, 8-color N8G wide-web flexo press from Flexotecnica—a purchase designed to increase production capacity and round out its current cadre of four narrow-/mid-web Mark Andy/Comco flexo presses to meet the full range of label print width specifications. "The Flexotecnica press provides a CI platform to allow greater and tighter registration, thus enabling the company to achieve success in printing extended gamut colors," Mader explains. Other key features of the press include high speeds and quick changeovers.