Press Releases

Technical Seminars Introduce New Technology for Flexo Printers
13 November 2009: At recent technical seminars held in Toronto and Philadelphia, USA, Flint Group presented its latest information on product developments and discussed topics of interest with flexo printers, converters and prepress managers.
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Newspaper Fountain Solutions Round Out Flint Group’s Product Portfolio
4 November 2009: Two fountain solutions from Flint Group serve common newspaper and coldset printer needs while offering an added benefit: they have been designed for optimal compatibility with Flint Group’s Arrowlith news inks.
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Change, focus, speed - Flint Group UK now an even stronger Force
30 October 2009: Flint Group Narrow Web has strengthened its service to customers in the UK with a new, unique service centre based at the Flint Group site in Ruabon, North Wales.
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Another Milestone in UV Flexo – A New FORCE Has Arrived!
30 October 2009: Flint Group is excited to announce the world introduction of Flexocure FORCE – the milestone development in UV Flexo technology that will enable printers to take another step in print quality, improved mileage and press performance.
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Trinity Mirror and Flint Group Supply Agreement
16 October 2009: Flint Group and Trinity Mirror have completed a new supply agreement.
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Flint Group’s Rodney Balmer Wins 2009 Technical Achievement Award
14 Ocotober 2009: Rodney Balmer’s work has reached printers in nearly all print sectors. This chemist is perhaps most well known for his advances in energy curable ink and coating technology, as well as his unique ability to help printers incorporate these technologies into their pressrooms.
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NEW – rotec® Premium Sleeve for the Highest Print Performance
6 October 2009: At this years flexo fair Proflex in Stuttgart, Germany, the rotec® Premium Sleeve from Flint Group Flexographic Products was presented for the first time and raised a lot of attention.
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Security printing goes for digital plate processing
25 September 2009: Flint Group Flexographic Products offers the first digital plate for security printing - nyloprint® WS 230 S Digital.
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Flint Group Earns Bio-derived Renewable Certification of Offset Inks
22 September 2009: Four of Flint Group’s most popular offset ink series earned bio-renewable content (BRC) certification by the ink industry’s only standard.
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Flint Group Flexographic Products cooperates with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
14 September 2009: The cooperation agreement between Flint Group Flexographic Products and Chulalongkorn University has been renewed.
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Flint Group announces the launch of its next generation of heatset inks - PremoKing
4 September 2009: With the ongoing and accelerating change in demand from heatset print houses, where print efficiency, higher quality and lower cost business models are essential to the development and viability of the sector, Flint Group Print Media Europe announces its next generation of heatset inks that deliver on all the above criteria – PremoKing.
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Inside Flint Group’s Print Media North America Operations
30 July 2009: Recently, the new Flint Group shared details about its Print Media North America division, specifically how it serves customers and the innovations it brings to market.
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Flint Group ANZ Appoints CPI Group to distribute sheetfed range
27th July 2009: Today Flint Group ANZ and CPI Group Limited signed a landmark agreement that appoints CPI as the distributor for Flint Group’s commercial sheetfed range of K+E Inks, Varn pressroom chemicals and dayGraphica products throughout Australia and New Zealand.
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Technical Seminars Successful in Charlotte and Milwaukee
24.07.2009: Flint Group Flexographic Products, together with Flint Group Packaging Inks & Narrow Web held the first two in a series of four regional technical seminars on June 23 and 25, 2009 in Charlotte, NC and Milwaukee, WI.
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Yataili Reproduction & Plate-making (Shenzhen, China) has installed the superior nyloflex® plate making system from Flint Group Flexographic Products
24.07.2009: Despite the world economic crisis and slowdown of China’s economical growth, Yataili Reproduction & Plate-making has recently committed to put into place a strategy which is aimed at outperforming the current market trend.
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Flint Group Narrow Web offers full range of print solutions to solve the narrow web label and packaging puzzle
16 July 2009:Visitors to Flint Group Narrow Web stand, 5B45, at this year's Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, 23-26 September, will be provided with a full insight into the wider world of label and narrow-web print.
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Flint Group celebrates creative use of inks at 5th Annual Narrow Web Print Awards
16 July 2009: Flint Group will host the 5th Annual Narrow Web Print Awards celebrating the excellence and entrepreneurship in the wider world of narrow web printing.
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Flint Group Print Media Europe announces its transition to a customer focused range of founts, pressroom washes and spray powders
13 July 2009: For Flint Group, the formation of Print Media Europe has brought access to a very wide range of top class formulations and raw materials, as well as hundreds of years of experience in their development laboratories around Europe.
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Flint Group Flexographic Products assures supply of rotec® Offset Sleeves for VSOP presses
10 July 2009: Print shops using VSOP technology can order rotec® Sleeves directly at Flint Group Flexographic Products and therefore realise short delivery times.
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New and unique: nyloflex® FSC Digital
9 July 2009: With the introduction of the new nyloflex® FSC Digital, Flint Group Flexographic Products offers a novel printing plate to the corrugated converting industry, which can contribute to lowering the total cost of ownership while increasing quality due to the unique low plate hardness of only 26 Shore A and finally making work life easier.
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Suzhou Advance Printing Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China) has installed the superior nyloprint® plate making system from Flint Group Flexographic Products
6 July 2009: To further upgrade their established letterpress plate making workflow and the quality of label printing, Suzhou Advance Printing Co., Ltd. (Suzhou, China), a well-known label printer, made the decision to install the superior plate making equipment nyloprint® Combination CW 35×50 from Flint Group Flexographic Products.
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Flint Group focuses on corrugated market
3 June 2009: Geoff Barba appointed Business Development Manager for USA and Canada.
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nyloflex® infinity goes around the world
2 June 2009: Flint Group Flexographic Products has successfully installed a further nyloflex® infinity system, increasing the global presence of this technology continuously.
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Flint Group hosts 5th Annual Narrow Web Print Awards at Labelexpo Brussels
14 May 2009: Flint Group will host the 5th Annual Narrow Web Print Awards celebrating the excellence and entrepreneurship in the wider world of narrow web printing.
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Anderson & Vreeland to Distribute nyloprint® Printing Plates in USA
5 May 2009: Flint Group Flexographic Products is proud to announce that Anderson & Vreeland, Inc. has agreed to distribute its line of nyloprint® printing plates and processing equipment for letterpress printing applications.
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New - nyloflex® Combi F II, the cost efficient compact device for effective plate making
27 March 2009: Flint Group Flexographic Products has expanded the equipment product range for processing flexo printing plates by adding the new nyloflex® Combi F II.
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Flint Group Flexographic Products to Hold Regional Seminars
12 March 2009: A series of four, one-day seminars on flexo technology will be conducted by Flint Group Flexographic Products.
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Flint Group Realigns Organisation to Better Meet Customers Needs -
3 March 2009: Flint Group today announced a customer oriented organisation structure aimed at enabling customers to have full access to Flint Group’s broad product portfolio through a single sales contact, supported by in-depth technical support.
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First qualified supplier - rotec® Sleeves for ‘smartGPS’
17 February 2009: Now it is official - Flint Group Flexographic Products is the first sleeve supplier to be qualified to manufacture sleeves for the ‘smartGPS’ system from Fischer & Krecke (F&K), Bielefeld/Germany.
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Flint Group and Unirep establish joint venture in Turkey
9 January 2009: Flint Group and Unirep announce that they have established a joint venture in Turkey.
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Dansen Prepress Corporation to Distribute rotec® sleeves in USA
6 January 2009: Flint Group Flexographic Products announces the addition of Dansen Prepress Corporation to its sales force for the rotec® line of sleeve products.
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Flint Group announces further Price Increases for Web-Offset Inks in the UK
19 December 2008: Flint Group has announced a 15% price increase for Web-Offset Inks with immediate effect, latest by 1st January 2009.
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Digital Coating Plate for Better Results
15 December 2008: Flint Group Flexographic Products launches the first digital photopolymer foil based coating plate for inline and offline print finishing, meeting the increasing demand for digital printing plates.
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Improved Stability of rotec® Adapters with New Interlock-Ring
10 December 2008: To increase the durability of rotec® Adapters for flexo printing, Flint Group Flexographic Products division has added a new modification to the product range.
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Russell Joyce, President Flint Group Narrow Web, died on Saturday 6th December.
Russell Joyce, President Flint Group Narrow Web, aged 39, died in hospital on Saturday after collapsing earlier that day in Malmo, Sweden. The cause of his death is not yet known.
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Flint Group and Lindgens signed Joint Venture agreement for Metal Decorating Inks Business in Australia and New Zealand
(Luxembourg, 3 December 2008) Flint Group and Lindgens Metal Decorating Coatings & Inks today announced the signing of a Joint Venture agreement comprising Flint Group’s metal decorating inks business in Australia and New Zealand.
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Annual Print Award
3 December 2008: At Labelexpo Chicago Flint Group Narrow Web hosted the 4th Annual Print awards celebrating the excellence and entrepreneurship in the wider world of narrow web printing.
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Fire at Flint Group’s manufacturing site in Slough, UK
(Slough, 1 December 2008) Today at ca. 10:00 local time an explosion occurred at Flint Group’s manufacturing site in Slough, UK followed by a fire.
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Varn Pro-Web Titanium offers increased performance characteristics.
7 November 2008: Flint Group’s pressroom consumables division - Day International, are pleased to introduce a new addition to the Varn Pro-Web range.
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Flint Group’s chemical manufacturing site goes from strength to strength.
6 November 2008: Flint Group’s pressroom consumables division, Day International is certainly living up to its mission statement of delivering exceptional value, consistent quality, and continuous innovation.
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Flint Group focus on value added technical services
2 October 2008: As the global economic downturn deepens and financial pressure on all operating costs for printing plants increases, Flint Group’s European News Ink Division will further focus its product and service offering continuing their commitment to share technical know-how and other value added services to the Newspaper Industry.
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Flint Group continues on acquisition trail with purchase of Russell-Webb Ltd.
1 October 2008: Flint Group announces the signing of an agreement for the acquisition of the specialist anti-set-off manufacturer Russell-Webb Ltd.
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Could this one be the winner?
18 September 2008: New silver 'scratch-off' inks that perform their key function and at the same time offer a high degree of on-press convenience in UV flexo printing have been introduced by Flint Group Narrow Web.
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Good Marks for Carbon Footprint and Costs with Proven Technology
5 September 2008: The ongoing public discussion about CO2 emissions exerts an increasing pressure on consumers and industry, which cannot be avoided by packaging printers either.
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Flint Group Flexographic Products Launches New Plate and Sleeve Technology
22 August 2008: Flint Group Flexographic Products, the culmination of Flint Group Printing Plates and the rotec sleeve business, introduces its latest plate and sleeve technology to the North American market at Labelexpo Americas 2008.
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Increased Duco Converting Service (DCS) capacity
22 August 2008: As of week commencing 25th August DCS will be running a 3 man permanent night shift.
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Labelexpo Americas 2008 booth preview: Flint Group Narrow Web, booth number 5713
25 July 2008:Flint Group Narrow Web unveils real innovations at Labelexpo Americas 2008: presenting 21st-century print solutions for the best in label, tag and package printing, and pushing the boundaries in decorative, security, and quality print.
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Flint Group Publication Inks Europe announces Oil Surcharge
14 July 2008: Flint Group Publication Europe announced an oil surcharge on all Heatset process inks with immediate effect.
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Flint Group North America Announces Price Increases and Surcharges on Commercial and Packaging Inks sold in U.S. and Canada
8 July 2008: The printing ink industry continues to experience unprecedented increases in all raw materials. The increases are related to crude oil increases as well as large swings in the manufacturing capacity of some of the primary raw material manufacturers.
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Dave Frescoln, Flint Group’s Deputy Chairman, to retire end of July 2008
Flint Group announced that Dave Frescoln, Deputy Chairman, plans to resign from the Board, and retire from the company at the end of July 2008.
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