At drupa, Flint Group Will Feature Products Including Inks, Coatings, Pressroom Chemicals

LUXEMBOURG — April 13, 2016 — Düsseldorf, Germany will be home to Flint Group experts and business leaders from May 31 to June 10, at the world’s largest and most prestigious print show.

drupa returns this summer, with as its theme, "Touch the future." What better platform could there be for Flint Group to showcase just what makes it a global leader in innovative solutions for the printing and publishing sector? Building on drupa’s vision, Flint Group will demonstrate its "One team, One Future, One Flint Group" concept with a vast range of inks, coatings, pressroom chemicals, flexographic plates and equipment, mounting sleeves, printing blankets and print services and solutions. And now, with the establishment of the Digital Printing Solutions Division, Flint Group’s presence at drupa will be bigger and more visible than ever before.

Flint Group will have three distinct spaces at the exhibition:

Hall 3 in the South of the fairground will be home to a small Flint Group information booth, which is situated in the heart of the ink and print consumables suppliers’ area. Ideally positioned to catch passing visitors looking for alternative print consumable partners, as well as a meeting hub for its existing customers and dealers.

Hall 8b in the Northern sector of the show will house a 245m2 Flint Group prepress stand. This stand will be shared between the Flint Group Flexographic Products Division and Thermoflex, That joined it with Xeikon, and is part of the new Digital Printing Solutions Division. With this joint booth, the commonalities in the prepress area will be presented to the visitors.

Hall 8a is the location of its main 1,200m2 stand. Joint branding of Flint Group and Xeikon will clearly highlight the exciting pairing of Flint Group and Xeikon, the leading digital solutions provider.

These three showcases in three different halls, announce the leadership position Flint Group now has in the print industry, globally.

In addition to the official stands, Flint Group will have its popular Schrebergarten, open from 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. each day of the fair, excluding June 10th. Invitations are being prepared to hand out to customers and this informal space, just outside the official exhibition site provides a wonderful place to relax before moving on to the restaurants and bars of the Altstadt.
For questions about Flint Group at drupa please contact Colin Stokes, global communications and sustainability director, at colin.stokes@flintgrp.com

Flint Group
Flint Group is dedicated to serving the global printing and packaging industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets an extensive portfolio of printing consumables and printing equipment, including: a vast range of conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for most offset, flexographic and gravure applications; pressroom chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing; photopolymer printing plates and sleeves, plate-making equipment and flexographic sleeve systems; pigments and additives for use in inks and other colourant applications.

Flint Group also designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital colour presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing, as well as commercial printing as well as platemaking equipment for the newspaper industry and computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for the commercial printing market. With a strong customer focus, service, support, and products, Flint Group strives to provide value, consistent quality and continuous innovation to customers around the world. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Flint Group employs some 6,800 people. Revenues for 2014 were € 2.1 billion. On a worldwide basis, the company is the number one or number two supplier in every major market segment it serves.

Source: Flint Group.