Flint Group introduces nyloflex Automated Plate Processor

Flint Group Flexographic Products has launched its nyloflex Automated Plate Processor (APP), a fully automated processing line for flexographic printing plates. The new machine will be available in the first quarter of 2011.  

The nyloflex APP combines a round brush washer, a dryer including eight drying drawers, a unit for post exposure and light finishing (UV-A / UV-C) and a stacker with eight drawers, offering in total a capacity of up to 120 plates / 320 m2 per day. The nyloflex APP covers plate formats up to a maximum of 1320 x 2032 mm (FV format) and from 0.7 mm to 7.0 mm plate thickness. 

‚Improvement of productivity and cost reductions play an increasingly important role in the printing industry – automation is one way to impact significantly on achieving these targets,’ said the company in a statement. ‚Today the flexo plate making process is far behind efficient automation, although it is well established in other printing processes like offset and gravure. Working with print-ready files, offset and gravure printing forms are produced today with high levels of automation.’ 

At the beginning of 2011, a nyloflex APP prototype will be available for customer demonstrations in the new Flint Group showroom in Stuttgart, Germany. In April the first nyloflex Automated Plate Processor will be installed at a trade shop in Central Europe. 

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