Book Printer Upgrades With Asahi Flexo Plates Asahi Photoproducts, a flexographic photopoly- mer plate development, reported that French book printer Imprimerie Floch is using its certified Car- bon Neutral AWP CleanPrint Water-Washable flexo- graphic plates.
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Founded in 1929, Floch initially began using Asa- hi Photoproducts flexographic plates in the 1980s. The company upgraded an Asahi AWF 110 plate processing unit in 1997 to enable the production of very thin 0.85 mm plates by APR resin washed with water. Imprimerie Floch President Hubert PEDURAND with a full-size Asahi AWPTM-DEW plate processed using the Asahi AWPTM 4260 PLF plate processor.
In 2022, Floch representatives visited an Asahi customer to see even newer technology – a CDI plate imager, solid plates and an automated cutting table. In addition, Floch is among the first in the world to install the Asahi AWP-LOOP Wastewater Recycling System as part of its AWP CleanPrint flexographic plate processing solution. This reportedly enables the company to reduce its wastewater output by up to 70 percent and W350 washout detergent use by 50 percent.
6 September 11, 2023 Flexo Market News
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