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Solar's flex-pack printing shines
July 8, 2008
I visited Solar Communications earlier today and was impressed by the company's strong moves toward flexible-packaging printing.
Primarily, it's a commercial house for offset-printed direct-mail and promotional products, but Len Brooker joined the company recently as flexo plant manager to push Solar's flex-pack business. A new 52-in., 8-color Flexotecnica N8G CI-flexo press was installed last fall and has been busy turning out magazine overwraps and printed films for laminating to direct-mail discount cards, etc. A key feature is a downstream, ninth station fitted with three Prime UV Systems curing units for UV varnishes to protect the surface flexo print.
Len let me in on plans to introduce a proprietary, demetallization process for flex packs. It already has customers looking at it as a replacement for similar work sourced overseas. Anything to bring business back home to the US of A sounds like a good idea to me.
Stay tuned for our Flexible Packaging Special Report this fall featuring Solar and other cool, new operations around the country.
Solar flexo plant manager Len Brooker (left) and press operator Eric Anacleto
look over print samples testing new Kodak Flexcel NX digital-flexo plates.
The Flexotecnica N8G press is a major new addition to Solar's 25,000-sq-ft flexo facility.
Posted by Mark Spaulding on July 8, 2008 | Comments (0)