UV flexo is starting a move to a wider realm.

By Susan Busch

Brian Wenger, vice president at GEW Inc., connects wider-web, flexible packaging converters’ “capital cost and conservatism” to UV’s slower spread in the sector. Another contributing factor, he says, is the “secretive” nature of CI UV flexo printers who are targeting the gravure market. “We would expect to see the adoption of UV flexo printing for this category to grow at a conservative 20-30 percent per year in North America,” he sums up.