Flint Group holds China Summer Flexographic Academy

Flint Group has initiated and organized the China Summer Flexographic Academy, which took place for the first time from 18 to 22 July 2011 in Shanghai. Forty teachers from sixteen universities and colleges attended the training and practical sessions, offered by Flint Group and its partners EskoArtwork, Auclean, Tesa, Omet and Avery Dennison.

The company says the aim of the event is to develop the Chinese flexo market, which it describes as growing ‘below expectations’, partly due to a shortage of training.

The seminar on July 20 was hosted in its entirety by Flint Group Flexographic Products. After a short company presentation and an overview on the Chinese flexographic market, presented by Magenta Zheng, general manager for China, Lee Yushan, technical manager for Greater China, spoke about the analogue and digital plate making processes. Thereafter Sim Cai, senior equipment engineer and technical sales manager, introduced the company’s latest develop­ments such as nyloflex Next technology, nyloflex Automated Plate Processor (APP) and nyloflex In-The-Round technology (ITR). In the afternoon, teachers enjoyed practical platemaking exercises at Flint Group Flexographic Products’ Asia technical center. 

Chen Na, a teacher from Wuhan University, summarized: ‘I feel that the training was very fruitful. Now I understand the latest flexographic technology much better and the detailed slides and movies will help me in teaching the students. We met a lot of industry peers and experts, with whom we can share information and discuss even after the event. I’m convinced that the event will contribute to develop the Chinese flexo industry and the printing process with environmental friendly advantages.’ 

Magenta Zheng of Flint Group Flexographic Products added: ‘We really believe that we can help to develop the flexographic market in updating teachers with the latest technology and providing them with practical exercises.’ 

Pictured: the teachers were excited about the possibility to gather information on the flexographic printing process 

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