Chrome replacement

Will REACH Chromium Regulations affect anilox roll manufacturing

17 April, 2018
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Will REACH Chromium Regulations affect anilox roll manufacturing for Flexo Printing? It is of no surprise to the audiences attending gravure focused meetings held by both the Gravure Association of the Americas and the European Rotogravure Association for the last few years that REACH Regulations in respect of chromium compounds present an uncertain future and […]

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Roto-Hybrid Process Year 1 European Commission project review

22 March, 2018
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The Roto-Hybrid team have recently completed the first project review with the European Commission of our 24 month, €3m EC grant to bring to market the state-of-the-art Roto-Hybrid Process. The process combines two novel pre-press gravure printing cylinder process technologies; namely the Hybrid Cylinder technology to enable an upscaled size variable printing cylinder production facility […]

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Roto-Hybrid Process 2018 trials underway

22 March, 2018
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The Roto-Hybrid team have delivered a number of presentations in the last few months to printers and convertors across the globe and to audiences at a number of printing and packaging conferences and meetings such as the ERA and GAA. Whilst 2017 was a year of manufacturing development to facilitate both larger cylinders for the […]

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Roto-Hybrid speak at 2018 Gravure Global Summit

21 March, 2018
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The Roto-Hybrid team gave an update on the HCR chrome replacement cylinder technology at the recent 2018 Gravure Global Summit ‘Opening the Door to Opportunity’ in Clearwater, Florida USA. In addition to an update on the Hybrid Cylinder and the HCR chrome replacement cylinder coating technology, other summit speeches and presentations covered a range of […]

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  • About Hybrid Cylinders

    Hybrid Cylinders is a new gravure printing cylinder technology that harnesses many of the competitive advantages of flexographic printing, engineered specifically for the gravure industry.
  • Roto Hybrid Process

    Combines the Hybrid Cylinder technology to enable size variable gravure cylinders and anilox rollers with a superior cylinder coating process to replace chrome.