This September in Brussels, Miraclon – the new home
of Kodak Flexcel Solutions – is ready to welcome visitors for the first time as
an independent company at a major international trade fair. At Booth 4B61,
designed to reflect the company’s innovative vitality and new-found agility,
the Miraclon team will demonstrate their commitment to driving the
transformation of flexographic printing forward with continued innovation and
collaboration.
The official European launch of the Kodak Flexcel NX
Ultra Solution will provide plate makers with another way of producing a
high-performance Kodak Flexcel NX Plate. Delivering the same on-press benefits
as the flagship Kodak Flexcel NXH Plate, the ground-breaking Flexcel NX Ultra
Solution offers solvent-free, VOC-free, water-based processing that allows
printers to create a press-ready plate in less than an hour. Enabled by
patented Kodak Ultra Clean technology, developed by the Miraclon team, the Flexcel
NX Ultra Solution is the first aqueous solution that provides consistent,
high-performing flexo plates in a high volume, low maintenance environment.
“The technology is truly innovative,” commented Hal
McLenon, Product Marketing Director at Miraclon, “and it’s been extremely
rewarding to see how fast our beta sites have converted print production from
their incumbent thermally-processed plates to Flexcel NX Ultra Plates. We’re
excited to have it on the show floor and ready to provide printers in Europe
with another option for achieving the outstanding print performance for which Flexcel
NX Plates have become well known.”
Transforming Flexo Together
Driven by a collective goal to expanding the reach
of flexo, visitors to the booth will also learn how Miraclon is teaming up with
users and industry partners to leverage Kodak Flexcel NX technology as a key
enabler for industry change. Examples of customer-led innovation provide
evidence of more efficient print production workflows and sustainable solutions
that position flexo as a truly viable alternative to gravure and offset
production for even the most demanding print buyers.
“As a global player that is totally focused on the
future of flexo, we’re looking forward to sharing our vision and presenting our
innovative Kodak Flexcel Solutions at Labelexpo Europe,” says Miraclon CEO
Chris Payne. “Most importantly, though, we see Labelexpo as an invaluable
opportunity to listen and learn. Our work is all about relationships. Only by
collaborating closely with our customers every step of the way, can we predict
the challenges they’ll face and create the solutions they need to resolve them.
Our job is to continually challenge ourselves by asking ‘What’s Next?’ ”
