Converting seminar tours Mexico

The Converting Solutions Seminar Series, held in Mexico on June 7-9 at venues in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara, attracted 250 visitors. Seminar presenters included John Thome of BST Pro-Mark, Mike Potter of FlexoWash, Joe Almeida of Flxon, Juan Bermudez of Harper Corp and Israel Mendoza of Nazdar.  

Additional co-sponsors for the 2010 Series included Bobst Group, Mark Andy and RotoMetrics. The series were organized by Zolplastic Alianzas Tecnológicas, a Mexico City-based company focused on improving the flexographic and rotogravure printing process throughout Mexico. In addition to representing a number of industry suppliers, Zolplastic offers pressroom audits to assess opportunities to better control the process and make process improvements that save time and money.   

Zolplastic president Tere Almaraz said: ‘This year’s seminars focused on new process improvement and process control technologies enabling a printer converter to achieve measurable and sustainable improvements with little investment. Five companies covered such topics as web inspection, press component cleaning and maintenance; metering blades, press upgrades, advances in color management based on new anilox and ink management technology.’