Consumables-General - Plates

SightCall integrates with MacDermid’s Salesforce platform and is a state-of-the-art, interactive tool for virtual communication between customers and technicians.

MacDermid Graphics Solutions has become the first flexographic plate manufacturer to partner with Digimarc. Through the newly established partnership, Digimarc's traceability technology will be further expanded into the flexographic printing market.

Flint Group has introduced the ThermoFlexX Catena+, a fully-automated plate processing line consisting of multiple equipment modules.

Broadcasting live from Belgium, Xeikon hosted a news conference on Wednesday and revealed details on its entry into the corrugated segment, along with its new products for digital label printing and flexographic platemaking.

MacDermid Graphics Solutions has announced the appointment of Brad Wills to the position of senior VP and GM. Wills previously spent 26 years with Schawk, SGK, and Matthews companies in a variety of positions on a global level.

The sale of the Sun Chemical North American Inks Flexographic Plates Division will give Colmar, Pa.-based PlateCrafters, a prepress provider, various assets, including HD plates with flat-top dot and Microcell technology, and sustainable SunLite in-position plates.

MacDermid has unveiled its latest solution for post-print corrugated production. The LUX ITP EDGE is an in-the-plate flat top dot solution designed to reduce fluting and provide high-quality images for retail packaging.

Among the highlights for Miraclon at Labelexpo Europe was the European launch of its next-generation KODAK FLEXCEL NX Ultra Solution, an aqueous solution that delivers consistent, high-performing flexo plates in a high volume, low maintenance environment.

Xeikon Prepress will debut a new integrated prepress solution for digital flexo plates at Labelexpo Europe 2019. The new solution builds on the success of ThermoFlexX digital imagers and Woodpecker Nano screening technology, and the mutual expertise of Xeikon Prepress and Flint Group's Flexographic Division.

Agfa Graphics has announced that it will be closing its 250,000-sq.-ft. offset printing plate manufacturing facility in Branchburg, N.J., by the end of this year in order to optimize its global production capacity and supply chain efficiencies. The plant closure will impact 125 workers.