UV flexo is starting a move to a wider realm.

By Susan Busch

Hot spots for growth

As suppliers and advocates continue working to achieve further UV flexo acceptance among the wider-web set, experts cite a number of factors that are already driving growth.

Hahn sees narrow-web printers taking UV technology wider, with 20˝ to 30˝ machines incorporating UV units, “to service a variety of markets from flexible packaging to labeling to folding cartons.” He also predicts wide-web printers will “aggressively pursue” UV technology in response to packaging buyers’ requests for UV flexo printed packaging.