The Flint Group has now announced the merger of the two divisions Flint Group Flexographic and Xeikon Prepress to form the new business unit XSYS.
8 January 2021
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The Flint Group has now announced the merger of the two divisions Flint Group Flexographic and Xeikon Prepress to form the new business unit XSYS. The aim is to strengthen the range of complete solutions for flexographic and letterpress printing with the three divisions for printing plates, sleeves and prepress technology.
The supplier of consumables and services for packaging printing wants to with the formal reorganisation to further strengthen co-operation and innovation in the interests of the Group and its customers. The two divisions have already been working closely together for some time in flexographic and letterpress printing.
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„With the integration of Xeikon Prepress into Flint Group Flexographic, we are utilising synergies and taking an important step towards realising our strategy of becoming the world's leading flexographic company. Provider of complete solutions for flexographic prepress to develop. The establishment of this new business unit brings together what belongs together, i.e. printing plates, solvent-based and solvent-free processing equipment, imagesetters, sleeves and adapters. This step also provides our customers with greater expertise. The new name XSYS is derived from the names of ThermoFlexX, nyloflex, Xpress and other brands containing the X in combination with systems.“ Dagmar Schmidt, President of XSYS
The new business division XSYS the following products and brands Included: nyloflex solvent and thermal printing plates/processing equipment for flexographic printing, nyloprint letterpress plates and processing equipment, nylosolv washout agents, rotec sleeves and adapters, ThermoFlexX TfxX platesetters, ThermoFlexX Catena plate processing equipment and surface screening solutions.
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Entire portfolio under the umbrella brand XSYS
This entire portfolio is offered under the umbrella brand XSYS, so that all existing brands remain in place and be further supported on the market. „We are certain that we will further strengthen our position by combining these products,“ says Schmidt.
XSYS is headquartered in Stuttgart. The new business division is based at 37 locations worldwide and remains one of the largest global suppliers to the prepress industry. Its product portfolio includes solutions for flexographic and letterpress printing, such as printing plates, sleeves, processing equipment, workflow solutions and professional services.
[infotext icon] The Flint Group offers comprehensive services for the global printing and packaging industry. The company develops, produces and markets a comprehensive portfolio of consumables and equipment for the printing industry. These include a wide range of conventional and UV/ES curing inks and coatings for offset, flexo and gravure printing, printing chemicals, blankets and sleeves for offset printing, photopolymer printing plates and sleeves, plate processing equipment, sleeve systems for flexo printing, pigments and additives for inks and other colour applications. Flint Group also designs, develops and supplies digital web-fed colour printing systems for label and packaging applications, document printing and commercial printing, as well as plate processing equipment for the newspaper industry and computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for commercial printing. The Group employs around 6,500 people and generated sales of €2 billion in 2019. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg[/infotext].
