DuPont celebrates 50 years of Cyrel® Flexographic Solutions success at drupa 2024
03 May 2024: At drupa 2024, DuPont™ Cyrel® Flexographic Solutions team will celebrate 50 years of delivering innovation to global flexographic printing industry by showcasing its next-generation portfolio of solutions that meet today’s packaging and printing trends.
“drupa 2024 show will be a superb platform for us to demonstrate our commitment to the industry and celebrate the Cyrel® legacy with our customers and partners. To our team, customer support and partnership means delivering on all fronts – product and service innovation, sustainability, quality and performance. We are excited to present so many promising technologies at this expo to keep perfecting flexo together with our customers,” said Tucker Norton, Global Business Director, DuPont Printing & Packaging.
This year’s expo will have a focus on sustainability – a key driver for global print market – as well as solutions that enable tradeshops and printers to deliver new levels of speed, quality and performance. Sustainability is always top-of-mind when DuPont’s new innovations are launched. As per 2024 Sustainability Report, DuPont is delighted to share that 100% renewable electricity is used at entire Cyrel® plate manufacturing sites. This reflects there commitment to reduce the carbon footprint by 50% by 2030 and achieve Carbon Neutral operations by 2050, in line with DuPont Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI).
Advancing the sustainability trend, first on the list of announcements of company at drupa 2024 is new Cyrel® FAST 1000 TD thermal processing platemaking equipment. Designed to serve customers in Tag & Label and Mid-Web Flexible Packaging segment with plate sizes up to 900 x 1,200 mm (35.4 x 47.2 inches) and suitable for operations with space constraints, the new design incorporates advanced features from the popular 2000 TD and 3000 TD machines. These include fast processing, a smaller environmental footprint, lower cost and ease of use for operators, along with high-quality print performance.
Other Cyrel® launches include two new plates to the portfolio Cyrel® EASY FAST EFM & Cyrel® Lightning LSE.
As brands seek to replace their use of plastics with paper packaging, the Cyrel® team will also showcase a new member of the EASY plate family of flat top dot plates for the thermal Cyrel® FAST platform – Cyrel® EASY FAST EFM. With medium hardness and an optimized formulation for printing on a wide variety of paper substrates, this new plate achieves excellent ink transfer on coated, uncoated, rough, and recycled papers while maintaining strong print performance on film. Cyrel® EASY FAST EFM features built-in flat top dot technology which delivers wide printing latitude. It has a smooth surface, ideally suited for the micro-screening of solids, which results in exceptionally high ink transfer and low dot gain.
Extending the award-winning Lightning range of photopolymer plate technologies, the Cyrel® Lightning LSE plate will be promoted for the first time. This new solvent-processible plate is designed for high intensity UV LED exposure devices and features an engineered surface, enabling flexible packaging printers to achieve exceptional print consistency.
drupa 2024 visitors will also see DuPont launch its new on-demand video training program, Cyrel® University, designed to help customers dramatically reduce preventable errors, quickly get new hires up to speed and keep top plate room and press room talent on the cutting edge.
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