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Flint Group’s new sustainable PRINT BY
NUMBERS

UV LED Dual Cure ink 50

Hotpack
Leading global print con- uncoated papers, PE (poly- Hotpack Global has
sumables manufacturer Flint ethylene), top-coated PE, PP, released year of fiftieth
Group reveals strong early BOPP, and other films. souvenir paper cups.
success of its UV LED ink Importantly, EkoCure page 3
range, EkoCure® ANCORA ANCORA F2 offers reduced
F2 with dual curing capabil- energy consumption, reduc-
ity, following its launch in ing the total cost to print. A
Europe at the end of 2022. clear value proposition for
The company’s UV LED Dual narrow web printers and 8k
Cure ink range builds on the converters.
original winning formula of “EkoCure ANCORA F2 is
its EkoCure ANCORA range, ideal for food labelling & Mutoh
specifically designed for food Flint Group revolutionises food label and packaging printing packaging applications and The XPJ-1341SR Pro and
packaging and labelling. designed for today’s print and XPJ-1641SR Pro printers
have a list price of
Flint Group’s Dual Cure inks enabling printers still using and lower viscosity, EkoCure packaging industry. More £8,000
and coatings are uniquely traditional mercury-based ANCORA F2 delivers better importantly, it’s the perfect and £11,000 respectively.
designed to cure using a tra- UV lamps to smoothly transi- press performance for long solution to future-proof our page 9
ditional UV lamp or low- tion to more sustainable UV runs in chambered doctor customers’ presses,” said
energy UV LED. These curing processes at their own blade systems. Furthermore, Niklas Olsson, Global
products are compatible with pace. these inks provide enhanced Director Product &
any curing system on any With optimised curing adhesion to a wide range of Commercial Excellence,
narrow or mid-web press, speed, improved rheology, substrates, such as coated & Narrow Web at Flint Group. 33m
Konica Minolta awarded BLI 2023-2024 Smurfit Kappa to invest
Smurfit Kappa
Pacesetter Award $33 m in expansion of
Fortaleza plant
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Konica Minolta Business ing hybrid workforces.” It
Solutions Europe has been also praised “augmented
awarded the Buyers Lab reality (AR) functionality
(BLI) 2023-2024 Pacesetter through AIRe Link, Konica 40%
Award in Remote Service for Minolta’s visual support tool
the Western European mar- so technicians can look at
ket f rom Key point issues remotely in real-time Armor-Iimak and Astorg
Intelligence, the world’s fore- without the need for on-site Astorg acquiring
approximately
most market research firm visits”. 40% of Armor-
Konica Minolta’s easy-to-
and independent evaluator of optimise and comprehensive Iimak’s capital.
document imaging hard- tools would “ensure devices page 15
ware, software, and services. get the kind of service that is
Based on research, this needed for any given issues
award recognises Konica Buyers Lab (BLI) 2023-2024 Pacesetter Award in Remote Service that arise” and to serve cus-
Minolta as having the lead- are becoming increasingly Europe to eliminate the need tomers “quickly without the
ing remote service offering. need for much administra-
The award assessed seven important as more and more for on-site service. In its sum- tive work”. 80k
ke y a rea s: V ision, companies adopt hybrid mary of the award, Keypoint “Konica Minolta is leading
Innovations, Achievements forms of working. Intelligence highlighted the charge in providing XSYS
(customer reach), Serving After the initial outbreak Konica Minolta’s “strong exemplary remote services to XSYS has implemented a
the Remote Worker, Serving of the COVID-19 pandemic, vision and innovative offer- fix MFP devices in the price increase of 6
the Enterprise, Regional Konica Minolta set out to ings that enable companies Western European market,” percent across its
Marketing, and Channel establish “Remote Service by to solve technical issues said Keith Haas, Analyst at nyloflex product
Activities. Remote services Default and Design” in remotely with ease, support- Keypoint Intelligence. page 18

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