Lscher Flexo opens UK-based operation

Lscher Flexo has opened its new premises in Thame, Oxfordshire Hans Lscher, proprietor of Lscher AG, performed the formal opening just four months after the company's acquisition of ZED Instruments, formerly located in Walton-on Thames, Surrey. The new company forms the major plank in a group strategy to increase its flexo-related business, especially with direct-laser ablation (laser engraving) technologies for relief printing processes, as well as  high-quality anilox rolls.

Lscher AG of Leutwil is a privately-owned Swiss company, founded in 1946, which has around 150 employees. Products have included screen printing stencil making equipment step-and-repeat machines, large-format drum laser scanners and large-format ink jet printers for the textile markets. The latest FlexPose! Series is based on the firm's successful Xpose thermal imaging CTP system for offset plates, as well as computer-to-screen systems.