DuPont's "push" for flexography is paying dividends at Drupa

Among these companies is the Noida-based Creative Graphics near Delhi in India, which ordered one of the biggest plate processor in Asia. The kit Creative ordered includes the latest Cyrel 3000 PS, Cyrel 2000 EC, 3000 D drier and M200 solvent recovery unit.

Creative Graphics is a dedicated flexo trade-shop, suppling plates for flexible packaging, tags and labels, and specialises in flexographic plate production for the Corrugated Post-Print industry.

The Cyrel 3000 PS is capable of producing wide-format plates in a maximum size of 50x80inches.  Unique to the 2000 EC is the clamshell design meant to hold 48 UV-A fluorescent tubes with built-in reflectors and the anodized temperature controlled bed, closed loop system that controls the exposure bed temperature translating into predictable and consistent exposures.

Besides the 3000 PS, DuPont is demonstrating a range of Cyrel flexographic solutions.

Deepanshu Goel, owner of Creative, said, “From a ‘cottage industry’ with little or no automation, the industry is evolving to become multi-colour, producing screens and halftones on the corrugated boxes.” Sanjay Popli, managing director of Popli Graphics, supplying DuPont Cyrel plates to CG, signed the purchase contract on behalf of Goel, with Mahesh Kode of DuPont India.

Goel who also has an ink-manufacturing plant for water-based Flexo inks, did not want to be drawn into the cost of the investment, but said that “he would be leveraging the large customer base his ink company supplies to in the corrugated post-print segment, driven by affordable automated corrugated board and post-print equipment, which has necessitated the use of flexo as a medium of printing.”