Flint Group News & Information

22 Nov 2010

1370 Finland

Flint Group Finland Oy and Heidelberg Finland Oy Announces New Partnership. Flint Group Print Media Europe’s Finnish operation has appointed Heidelberg Finland Oy as its exclusive distributor for industry leading brands: K+E sheetfed offset inks, Varn Press Room Chemicals and dayGraphica blankets, effective 22nd November 2010. The appointment of world leading sheetfed press ...

17 Nov 2010

1360 Next

Flint Group’s New Exposure Technology - nyloflex® NExT A new innovative approach to achieve Flat Top Dots Flint Group Flexographic Products presented impressive print results achieved with nyloflex® NExT exposure technology at the Flint Group Symposium in Stuttgart /Germany and raised great resonance at the audience.nyloflex® NExT high output UV technology is able ...

05 Nov 2010

1350 PME Priceincrease

The Print Media Europe Division of Flint Group announces Price Increases in Heatset, Coldset and Publication Gravure Inks –effective January 1st 2011. The unprecedented escalation in prices of all key raw materials, that has dominated the ink manufacturers’ supply chain throughout 2010, continues to dramatically affect the costs of producing heatset, coldset and publication gra...

22 Oct 2010

1340 Rawmat PNW

The challenge remains – Packaging and Label Ink raw material shortages and cost increases expected to continue throughout 2011 The raw material markets have been very challenging since the beginning of the year. Many key material and feedstock producers began the year with depleted inventories and reduced capacities. The recession had caused many producers of specialty chemical...

12 Oct 2010

1330 Printaward 2010

Flint Group Narrow Web announces winners of the 2010 Narrow Web Print Awards! Flint Group Narrow Web announced the winning labels in the 6th annual Narrow Web Print Awards on Wednesday, September 15 at Labelexpo Americas 2010. The winning companies will be presented with an exclusive award from their Flint Group Narrow Web local representative recognising them for outstanding p...

08 Oct 2010

1320 Gumrosin

Print Media Europe: Gum Rosin Market continues to be volatile, and predictions are that ink prices will rise further. In the last year Gum Rosin, a critical base material for Phenolic Resin used in print media inks (Heatset, Publication Gravure, Coldset and Sheetfed) has been under constant upward price pressure. Despite this trend, availability of the crop in general has not b...

28 Sep 2010

1310 Hoeh

Flint Group appoints new Commercial Director Central Europe Packaging Inks MarFlint Group’s Packaging and Narrow Web Division is pleased to announce that Carsten Höh has joined the European Flint Group team as Commercial Director Central Europe Packaging Inks. Carsten Höh will be responsible for the Packaging Ink sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and will be a member of...

14 Sep 2010

1300 Sheetfed NA

North America: Flint Group launches Eco-friendly Inks and a One-Step Fountain Solution for Sheetfed Printers Plymouth, MI USA – In its continuing quest to bring solutions to the pressroom, Flint Group has launched top-quality, earth-friendly inks and a new low-dosing, one-step fountain solution.Arrowstar® 8041 inks contain less than 3% VOCs—among the lowest VOC levels available...

14 Sep 2010

1290 Exposure

Flint Group to Introduce Innovative Exposure Technology for Highest Quality Flexo Plates Flint Group Flexographic Products announces that it will launch a new, innovative UV exposure technology for flexographic printing plates that offers significant advantages over existing technologies. The new exposure technology, currently in beta testing, will enable digital flexo plates t...

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