Glunz & Jensen opens flexo center in Pennsylvania

In November Glunz & Jensen opened its first flexo center in Italy. The second facility, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, contains a fully equipped demo center featuring the latest platemaking equipment for narrow and wide web applications, including exposure units, processing/washout systems, dryers and light finishers, plate thickness measuring tables and plate mounting systems. The facility will be further expanded to incorporate a demonstration and training center for Glunz & Jensen´s offset platemaking products.

Keld Thorsen, Glunz & Jensen CEO, said: ‘We are ready to support the American flexo industry with a center for innovation, support and customer training. Our newest center will enable the American customers to explore our integrated systems and automated solutions.

‘We would like our customers to discover how our processing expertise really adds value for them.’

Two of Glunz & Jensen’s latest products are the Flex‐in‐One compact all‐in‐one unit for water wash flexo plates, and the FlexScanner which scans sleeves and adaptors for low/high areas, enabling trade shops and packaging printers to take full control of product quality, before going to press.

Frank Newman, general manager of Glunz & Jensen Americas, added: ‘Our new flexo centre here in Quakertown will be the centre of attention for flexo platemaking innovation and product adaption. Innovation comes from the close dialog and cooperation with our customers. Our new flexo center will become a tool enabling our plate partners and dealers to conduct testing and demonstrations which will help them to further adapt and optimise our products to the needs of their customers.’