Esko FIQ team achieves highest level FTA certification

Esko’s entire US Flexo Implementation Quality (FIQ) staff has completed the First Implementation Specialist Certification – Level III. This is the highest level of certification offered by North American Flexographic Technical Association (FTA). The newly certified team members are Rory Marsoun, Doug Benham, Henning Hansen and Ryan Hansen.

‘This certification recognizes this team’s proficiency in the entire flexographic workflow,’ enthused Jill Gehrhardt, vice president of Americas customer service. ‘This will allow us to provide the highest level of support to our flexo customers because of this increased level of expertise within our support team. This also represents a unique competitive advantage, as we believe our degree of certification is unmatched.’

Esko’s technical consulting services enable the company to share its expertise with customers throughout the value chain. Esko can help companies to identify and resolve workflow and quality challenges in design, pre-press and production of packaging.

First aims to provide all participants in the flexographic reproduction process (i.e. customers, designers, pre-press providers, raw material and equipment suppliers and printers) with a common set of guidelines, tutorials, targets and tolerances that can be used as communication and production tools. When adhered to, the guidelines outlined in First 4.0 help all members of the supply chain improve quality, reduce cycle times, minimize rework and waste, and facilitate producing a consistent result, print run after print run.

There are three types of First operator certifications, including press operator, pre-press operator and implementation specialist. To be fully certified, the student must successfully pass three levels, regardless of which certification is chosen.

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