Van Genechten partners with Flint for ink

This period has included over 1,000 color matchings, and as soon as the agreement was reached between the two companies a Memorandum of Understanding was signed and work began on converting nine sites across Europe.

A road map to seamless transition was laid out with an emphasis on central and regional coordination. The success of the six-month program received very positive feedback from all sites during Van Genechten Packaging’s quality review process. 

Romain Boulot, vice president of sheet-fed packaging sales at Flint Group, said: ‘Van Genechten Packaging partners some of the world’s major brands, and working together with such a leading converter represents a very important milestone in our sheet-fed packaging strategy. The key to success in this project was the close cooperation, at both central and regional level of our dedicated sheet-fed packaging organisation.

‘Van Genechten Packaging needs continuity of product across all sites. It runs low migration inks on all jobs, both food and non-food packaging, and we agreed very tight tolerances on matchings, based on digital L.a.b. values. So we knew that our Novasens P660 Premium low migration system was the best product to suit its needs. This series offers excellent mileage, print stability and the potential to reduce start-up waste.

‘Matching such a large number of spot colors for a wide geographical area took quite some managing, but our digital color management solution helped keep the process flowing and we were able to achieve the deadlines expected of us.

‘Then we were asked to implement the new products at the same time across the sites, so we needed careful coordination with our respective local teams, and a central technical group at Van Genechten Packaging. 

‘Thanks to our extensive service centre footprint we are able to deliver Van Genechten Packaging’s spot color needs across Europe.’

Enrico Boening, group purchasing director at Van Genechten Packaging, said: ‘Flint Group was able to offer a high performing low migration system that we believe answers the needs of the most demanding of brand owners, and during this whole project it also demonstrated robust central and regional service capabilities in terms of supply chain and technical excellence.

‘We were particularly impressed by how Flint Group successfully fulfilled our extensive digital color matching requirements and the transition of its inks into our regional entities was well planned and implemented as promised.’