Flint Group

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Flint Group announced the appointment of Doug Aldred as president of Packaging & Narrow Web – Europe and North America.

Luxembourg-headquartered Flint Group announced the appointment of Doug Aldred as president of the Packaging & Narrow Web – Europe and North America effective immediately. In addition to his new role, Aldred also will assume responsibility for the global Packaging and Narrow Web strategy and will report directly to Antoine Fady, chief executive officer. Aldred joined Flint Ink in 1994 (one of the group of companies that merged to form Flint Group) as a manufacturing manager within Canada and in 1998 was appointed as general manager, Sheetfed Europe. With Flint-Schmidt he became Global VP for the Sheetfed division and in

Flint Group Narrow Web has introduced BioCure F™  to global markets in response to market demands for an ink system developed with bio-renewable raw materials.

BioCure F™ is introduced globally in response to market demands for an ink system developed with bio-renewable raw materials that also maintain key properties available in other state-of-the-art UV Flexo ink systems. “We have been asked by leading converters, who in turn have been asked by consumer product companies, to develop a UV Flexo ink that rivals robust UV Flexo technology but that is also developed with bio-renewable materials” says Tom Hammer, Product Manager Flint Group Narrow Web. “We feel that BioCure F™ shows Flint Group’s ongoing commitment to develop greener, more sustainable products to help support

Anderson & Vreeland announced the acquisition of Flexolution, a distributor of flexographic printing materials serving Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Anderson & Vreeland announced the acquisition of Flexolution, a distributor of flexographic printing materials serving Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

Flint Group Flexographic Products is rolling out a new program to provide a plate waste recovery service to its flexographic printing plate customers in the continental United States.

To accommodate its customers who are placing a priority on improving the sustainability of their prepress process, Flint Group Flexographic Products is rolling out a new program to provide a plate waste recovery service to its flexographic printing plate customers in the continental United States. The service is simple and easy to use. Cubic yard corrugated containers are provided to the customer. As plate waste is accumulated, raw plates, coversheets, and used printing plates with or without mounting tape affixed are placed in these containers. When the containers are full, the customer simply calls a toll free number, and

To meet the increased market demand for low migration UV inks, Flint Group has decided to make a major investment into additional manufacturing equipment for its growing ink product range in its motherplant for narrow-web inks in Trelleborg, Sweden.