SourceBook 2019: FTA’s Fingerprint and Membership Directory

• The year in review—an examination of important FTA and industry happenings from 2018
• Tackling the challenge of covering an entire printed surface—especially an uneven one like corrugated board—with uniform ink
• The Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC) and Standards Working Group (SWG) finish up 2018 with fall updates and look ahead to 2019
• The characterization and profiling of the “FIRST in Motion” Forum 2018 print project
• Fall Conference 2018 welcomed nearly 300 flexographers to Cleveland for three days of technical sessions, tabletop exhibits and everything needed to take care of business

Industry News

FLEXO Magazine’s industry news is your guide to everything FTA members are doing—releasing new equipment, expanding facilities, merging with, buying or being bought by another company, hosting an open house or exhibiting at an event, rebranding; you name it.

Product Announcements

• Lundberg Tech Introduces WasteBagCut for Collecting Waste from Offline Packaging Processes
• X-Rite & Pantone Release eXact Auto-Scan
• MacDermid Graphics Solutions Introduces LUX ITP MELO
• Toyo Ink Brasil Announces Upgraded Line of Surface & Lamination Inks
• EyeC Announces New Proofiler Version, Improves Workflows for Pharmaceutical Packaging

Hirings & Promotions

• Nicholas Myaard Joins JM Heaford as Service Engineer for U.S., Canada & Latin American Markets
• Graymills Announces Two Key Leadership Changes
• RotoMetrics Promotes Kerry Beaver & Molly Moroni to New Regional Leadership Roles
• Pete Schwab & Kevin Glendon Join Apex International as Sales Representatives
• MacDermid Graphics Solutions Appoints Karina Cunha to Sales Manager, MGS-Brazil

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Flexographic M&A Drivers: Achieving Growth Through Consolidation
• Fortis Solutions Group Acquires Infinite Packaging Group
• PPC Flexible Packaging LLC Acquires Temkin International
• Resource Label Group LLC Acquires Best Label Co
• Fortis Solutions Group Acquires Premier Georgia Printing and Labels, Austin Label Company

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The FLEXO Tech Talk Series brings the magazine’s articles to life, allowing authors to present their writing in a webinar setting. Tech Talks are free-to-attend webinars that enable some of the industry’s most knowledgable members to speak directly to their fellow flexographers—the same audience who can make use of their products or services—and allows those users to ask questions directly to those in the know.

FLEXO iQ

FLEXO iQ is a sister to FLEXO Magazine, devoted to covering the world of multiprocess printing and converting options. It examines how ancillary equipment, technologies and print processes work in tandem with flexography to deliver more capabilities and propel the printing format to continued growth over its peers, through technical articles, Q&A discussions and industry news items. The publication also examines how flexography is becoming more and more sustainable, through waste-reduction efforts, environmentally friendly consumables and trailblazing initiatives led by FTA members.

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Media Kit

The FLEXO Magazine Media Kit is for contributors and advertisers. It includes a month-by-month calendar of what each issue will cover, advertising rates for all sizes, as well as a look at digital offerings that include eblasts, Web ads and custom packages, and production specifications for both print and online components.

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