(Read the original press release here.)

As the new year kicked off, The Flint Group made an interesting announcement for the flexographic industry. Over the years, both organically and through acquisitions, Flint Group, both in the parent company and in its digital subsidiary, Xeikon, has amassed a great deal of knowledge and expertise about flexographic prepress. From using innovative materials and technologies to create flexographic plates, to plate processors with a minimal environmental footprint, to software solutions that help automate and control the entire flexographic prepress process.

Now all of these resources are consolidated under one umbrella in a new Flint Group division called XSYS that combines Flint Group Flexographic with Xeikon Prepress. Some of you may remember the name from the past -- Back in 2005, Flint Group was created by the union of XSYS Print Solutions and Flint Ink Corporation. XSYS has about 600 employees and revenues of about €300 million. Just over 70 of those employees came from the Xeikon prepress group. The division’s headquarters will be in Stuttgart, and its existing production sites will remain as is, with no change at least at this time.