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loyalty and interest in a company’s growth. FromUteco’s perspective,a well-trained personmakes a good machine excellent.We offer training courses for operators and maintenance personnel from entry to ad- vanced levels, either in-house or on location.We have common interest withThe Sonoco Institute at Clemson, for example, in expanding theoretical courses to hands- on press experience at our training facility in Georgia. There are relatively few courses available for operators as many younger people choose pre-press and graphics. Flexo printing companies often have to grow their own operators from a pool of different skill sets, recognizing the common interests that training brings opens the budgets and the returns for everyone involved. Uteco Open House (Cont’d from Page 9) Virtual Forum (Cont’d from Page 1) vs. Postprint: Comparing preprint and postprint tech, and how corrugated printers and their customers can choose the right process for each job • 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. – Press Optimization: Straight from the Mouths of Printers: Establishing consistent print quality,workflow stability and efficiency of oper- ations, through press optimization

Wednesday, April 29: • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Color Consistency:Achiev- ing the Target: How using hardware to capture data and software to visualize it allows production crews to print to the numbers and ensure color consistency • 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. – Inside the Minds of Brand Owners:WhyWe Care: Brand owners discuss the ways in which color is important and how its importance affects their package-branding decisions Wednesday, May 6: • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. – Innovation & Technol- ogy Born from Frustration: How color is affected by ink, anilox and plate selection—and improved by cut- ting-edge technologies—along with finding the best combination of consumables • 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. – FQC: Exploring Technology & Defining Value in Packaging: Technology advance- ment born from in-depth research conducted by in- dustry members and students of flexography The three remaining sessions from FORUM 2020 will take place later this year at Fall Conference 2020: • Evaluation, Optimization, Control: The Complete Plate Making Package • Print Quality Scoring: Friend or Foe? •The Defectives II:A“Virtual”Guide toTroubleshooting.

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