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19 leading companies of the Flexo4all alliance are organizing a real tour

Drupa 2008 is expected to be the largest event in the last 50 years for the graphic and printing industry. This year the 19 Drupa halls will be overcrowded: more than 2.000 exhibitors and above 400.000 visitors are expected to be in Düsseldorf between May 29^th and June 11th.

To make it easier for visitors to walk around Drupa 2008 and find the most relevant booths for their business, Flexo4all, a strategic alliance between nineteen leading flexo suppliers born to promote the advantages of flexography in the packaging printing industry, is preparing a real guided tour to accompany people to the Flexo4all partners’ stands spread out into the amazing number of halls of Drupa fairground.

“Flexo has still a lot to say in the flexible packaging industry, especially thanks to the developments of food compliant UV/EB ink and drying technologies”, says Federico d'Annunzio, President of GIDUE S.p.A., one of the Flexo4all partners. “The traditional ink stability of UV technology will be enhanced by the advantages of UV flexo as a clean and environmental friendly process. This Flexo Tour is a real good chance for all Flexo4all partners to join their experience and knowledge to show visitors how flexography can improve their business and support a sustainable activity”.

The Flexo4all Paths inside Drupa aim at informing and demonstrating workflow solutions suited to a wide range of packaging applications: Flexo printing onto any substrate type, like very thin extensible films, aluminium, paper, thin carton or thick corrugated boards, with different ink types, etc. Flexo4all was in fact chosen by the partners as a unique word expressing that this printing technology is ideal for almost all substrates, all segments, all applications, all budgets.

The Flexo4all partners are combining their worldwide expertise, know-how and the most advanced and successful technologies to present the most comprehensive range of flexographic printing solutions currently available.

Ulrich Harte, Marketing Manager Printing for Windmöller & Hölscher – another Flexo4all partner -, confirms the mission of this joined activity to promote Flexo at Drupa 2008: “Like the previous Drupa exhibitions, we are going to present groundbreaking developments in flexo press engineering and we will do the same at our in-house EXPO in Lengerich. Our focus will be on increased productivity, minimized waste, resource-efficient and environmentally friendly package printing”.

The Flexo4all partners can be grouped in categories, according to their market and product offer.

About Flexo4all
Flexo4all is a strategic alliance combining worldwide expertise from independent companies: suppliers of the graphic arts and packaging printing industry. The members work together in partnership, sharing their experience and knowledge to perfect Flexographic packaging printing while also promoting the advantages and innovation.

Born to be a strategic cooperation and not a commercial joint venture to sell complementary products or services Flexo4all is aiming at:

• Encouraging networking within the flexo industry to create active co-operation among all partners;
• Connecting the competence of all members to deliver knowledge and added value solutions worldwide;
• Promoting the value of flexography as the best technology to satisfy all printing needs;
• Achieving improved and sustainable service for the Flexographic Packaging Printing industry.

More information on Flexo4all can be found at: www.flexo4all.com