Connect a Schawk Group Company, which is part of
the Matthews Corporation, is one of the leading providers of digital
reprographics and photopolymer printing plates in Europe. Specialised in
delivering service solutions in the pre-press industry the company’s roots are
within flexographic print processes.
With a primary focus on flexible packaging, their
customers get a full-service package that includes everything from design and
repro to finished flexographic printing plate. As well as providing global
coverage to marketers, Schawk also offers regional connections and local
insight, which is key to achieving brand consistency, accuracy and workflow
efficiency. Today’s aim is to be advisors in production, print services,
pre-media, and workflows.
Encouraged by such endeavours, Connect participated
in Flint Group’s FlexoExpert Certification Programme in October 2017 and became
an official FlexoExpert. During a six-month process consisting of three main
steps – evaluation, implementation and training, then auditing – the FlexoExpert Certification
Programme provides the means by which plate makers can further optimise their
workflow to make more reliable and consistent plates, time and time again. With
the guidance of a Flint Group expert, Con-nect implemented the programme and
passed the final audit to earn the honor of the FlexoExpert. They became the
second site within Schawk to receive the FlexoExpert certification, right after
Schawk Nürnberg, which serves as proof to its customers that the company
follows best practice in its flexo plate making. Customers can count on Connect
to provide plates of an even more superior quality.
“As we at Connect are one of the UK’s leading
flexographic origination houses who are part of Schawk, we deal with numerous
prestigious brands and their printers on a daily basis. It is important for us
that the standards in all that we do are of the highest level. To have been
accredited by Flint Group plate making experts and advised that our score was
the highest ever achieved in Europe, is confirmation and recognition for us,
that our quality policies are working,” stated David Piercy, Connect’s
Operation Director.
With its plate-making expertise and focus on
service, Flint Group first introduced the programme in April 2016, and offers
it to customers around the globe who are interest-ed in broadening their
knowledge on the standardisation of the flexo plate making process.
