In December 2017, Troika Systems Ltd. ploughed
through a landmark moment by reaching 21 years in business. As a company Troika
have been through many changes and developments in those years. Starting off as
a one man business in the spare room of its founders home, Phil Hall has taken
the company from its humble beginnings to become the global leader in providing
state of the art quality control 2D & 3D Microscopes for the flexographic
and gravure print packaging industry.
AniCAM with its QC products measure the surface
profile of the anilox rolls, gravure cylinders, sleeves and plates used to
deliver the correct volume of ink to the material to be printed helping to save
press set-up time, reduce waste and increase profits. This year troika saw its
largest ever single order for its flagship product the AniCAM with Anilox QC,
what better way to celebrate 21 years in business.
Phil Hall, the Founder, Owner and Managing Director
of Troika Systems Ltd. in the UK has been involved in the print industry for
almost 40 years starting as support technician for Crossfield Electronics on
the early colour separation scanners in the 1980s, then progressed into sales
and marketing over the intervening years.
Phil started Troika in 1996, always having an eye
for trying to improve production efficiencies, and in the last decade, with
environmental considerations, reducing waste, he looked to develop products
that could achieve these aims.
Working closely with a variety of universities and
Troika’s excellent development team Phil has led the company to being the
leader in measurement instruments, for anilox and gravure engravings, globally.
His proudest achievement was, through collaborative
work with Swansea University, working out a proven accurate standard of measurement
for aniloxes, this has proven to be very significant for many hundreds of
individual flexo printers and major print groups who seek improved
standardisation. This is the standard of measurement Phil ensured Troika adopted
for its anilox and gravure QC tools.
Troika products are important for checking the
integrity of anilox rolls, gravure cylinders and flexo plates before the print
run to ensure good quality print output, efficiency and accuracy capturing the
data and automatically collating it into easy-to- read reports with graphics
for analysis. The Plate-II- Print HD units, recently modified and improved,
offer customers even more accuracy and quality control over their printing
flexo plates and print. The whole Troika
team support our customers with technical, training and sales advice with regards
to our whole product range.
With over 900 AniCAM’s and 1000 Plate-II- Print
units sold to date to the label, wide web, corrugated and security print
markets globally. The AniCAM and its applications are the leading quality
control management solutions on the market.
