Fotograbados Longo Adds Miraclon Technology BY GREG KISHBAUGH
MENA’s Flexo Printing Market to Reach $191M
IndexBox has published a new report: MENA - Flexographic Printing Machinery - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends And Insights that provides a comprehensive analysis of the flexographic printing machinery market in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region for 2024, with forecasts to 2035. It details that market consumption in 2024 was 1.8K units valued at $154M, with a fore- casted growth to 2K units ($191M) by 2035.
Sebastian Longo, Owner and Managing Director of trade shop Fo- tograbados Longo S.A., Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina, has a personal definition of quality. “For us, it isn’t just about offering print quality. It’s also about the quality — or efficiency — of the printing pro-
Key findings include: • Market forecast to grow to 2K units and $191 million by 2035, indicating continued but decelerating expansion, • Jordan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia were the top consumers by volume in 2024, together accounting for 50 percent of total consump- tion, • Turkey is the market leader in import val- ue ($55 million) and the dominant exporter, supplying 73 percent of the region’s export volume, • Significant price disparities exist, with Algeria’s import price per unit ($251, 000) far exceeding Bahrain’s ($24,000), and • Historical data shows extreme volatility, with consumption and production volumes ex- periencing massive spikes in the mid-2010s. Driven by increasing demand for flexog-
Sebastian Longo, Owner and Managing Director, Fotograbados Longo S.A.
cess. We want our customers to be comfortable using our prepress tools, our plates. Comfort means no problems during press set-up or during the print run. It means consistency, and everything being right the first time to maximize efficiency and save costs. “ To address the company’s needs, it installed a number of Miraclon products Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, including a FLEXCEL NX System with PureFlexo Printing, and a Shine LED Lamp Kit, innovated by Mir- aclon, which enabled the company to refurbish an older fluorescent exposure unit and increase their LED plate exposure capacity. Sebastian says that he had tracked Miraclon’s technology innova- tions for some time, adding that a contributing factor to his investment
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