Shigetaka Komori

GREENWOOD, SC—Fuji Photo Film recently celebrated the startup of a new plate line for the production of digital computer-to-plate (CTP) pre-sensitized plates as part of a $100 million expansion at its North American manufacturing and research complex here. On hand for the festivities were hundreds of guests, suppliers, customers and company associates. The Greenwood facility will produce Fujifilm's Brillia line of digital plates, including the latest violet photopolymer plates for the newspaper market. The family of plates feature the company's proprietary MG-MultiGrain technology. "This new, highly productive line is designed to provide our customers throughout North, Central and South America with the widest range