Sponsoring Best International Print & Best in Show

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC group, is the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments and a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets including electronic materials, functional and specialty coatings, brand protection and product authentication technologies. click here

Sponsoring Cartons & Technical Achievement / Innovation

The range of solutions that Asahi offers is second to none. More than 30 years of experience in producing and constantly advancing the development of photopolymers form the basis for a range of plate types which convince printers on account of their quality and resultant efficiency. Read more about Asahi here

Sponsoring Manufacturing Efficiency

Brand Imaging Solutions provide packaging Design, Artwork, Repro and Pre Press services to print groups, retail and brand owners across the UK and Europe. We are focused upon removing complexity and driving value to all our clients and partners. Driving a proactive approach to all your pre press challenges. Read more about Brand Imaging here.

Sponsoring Post Print and Post Print on Folder Gluers

The Bobst Group are global leaders in the supply of high quality equipment to print and convert corrugated board. Developments by BOBST, MARTIN, ASITRADE and RAPIDEX combine to play a leading role in providing cost-effective, quality conscious solutions to the packaging industry. Read more about Bobst here

Sponsoring Repro Company of the Year

Esko is a global supplier of integrated solutions for packaging, sign and display finishing, commercial printing and professional publishing. Esko products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business and improve profitability. Read more about Esko here

Sponsoring Best on Shelf

Sandon Global manufacture and refurbish anilox rolls, sleeves and gravure cylinders from our specialised engineering facility in Runcorn, Cheshire. Our modern plant offers Laser and Mechanical Engineering departments allowing us to produce our anilox internally and helping us to guarantee standards and expediency. It is our objective to design products that assist our customers and facilitate their ability to print. Our obligation to research and development permeates through all our products from the latest generation engraving standards to various ancillary products such as sleeve covers.

Our experienced staff are dedicated to ensuring the high quality of our products, this is emphasised by our success in attaining four consecutive ‘Supplier of the Year’ awards at the annual EFIA/EFTA awards voted for by flexographic print companies. A plaudit that no other anilox supplier can match. Read more about Sandon global here

Sponsoring Labels

Founded in 1974, YRG Group is a thriving organisation serving both the print industry and a wide range of end-user clients.
The Group has built on sustained success, expanding significantly over the past five years with multi-million pound investments in plant, processes and people that continue to drive its outstanding progress.
YRG comprises three closely aligned sites in York and Manchester, as well as a number of innovative and positive partnerships with other companies. Read more about the YRG Group here

Sponsoring Flexible Packaging

Kodak provides a complete portfolio of solutions for your flexo printing needs. With the KODAK FLEXCEL NX Digital Flexographic System flexographic printing is taken to a whole new level. If you want to push the limits of flexo printing, enhance your image reproduction capabilities, achieve greater consistency on press, realize efficiencies in production and achieve higher ink densities with no additional ink, the KODAK FLEXCEL NX Digital Flexographic System is the answer.

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Sponsoring Supplier of the Year

DS Smith Packaging is the UK’s foremost corrugated packaging manufacturer. Our product range encompasses virtually every type of corrugated packaging – high volume transit cases, speciality designs, packs printed for decorative and POS applications, and heavy duty industrial products. Throughout the country, our comprehensive production network, comprising volume plants, sheet feeders and sheet plants, service the diverse needs of thousands of customers, from multinationals to local businesses. We provide advisory services, to enable our customers to extract maximum value from their packaging, and, through our sister companies, offer a strong international perspective which our customers can share. DS Smith Packaging is part of DS Smith PLC, a group with sales of approximately £2.1billion focussed on packaging and paper.

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Sponsoring Preprint & Sacks, First Time Entrant & Pre-Dinner Drinks Reception

SGS International is the world leader in the production and management of packaging communications with over 60 years experience serving the Print, Retail and Consumer goods markets. SGS is a truly global business with offices located across North America, Europe and Asia. We have an unparalleled track record in investment in both people and innovation to ensure flexo continues to be the leading packaging print process. SGS Europe is one of the leading suppliers of high quality graphic reproduction to the flexographic industry, producing one of the highest volumes of flexo plates throughout Europe. Our unrivalled flexo heritage and colour expertise with a twenty-five year old track record of working with Europe’s leading printers has produced award-winning separations, ultimately leading to SGS Europe winning the inaugural EFTA ‘Repro Supplier of the Year’.

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Sponsoring Promotional Print

FlexoTech is the only magazine published in the UK structured for the packaging printer and particularly those involved in the flexographic printing process. The magazine has a wide circulation, which spans printers, pre-press houses, designers and brand owners. It provides a plethora of information on the developments in flexography, as well as looking at the packaging market, and increasingly, digital packaging applications. Encompassing all aspects of package and label printing from design concept to finishing.

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 Sponsoring the Prize Draw

3M offer a wide range range of mounting tapes as well as splicing tapes.The soft foam matrix provides compression and recovery properties necessary to help reduce dot gain and produce high quality process printing. 3M Flying Splice Tapes are designed for flying and zero speed slicing of most paper types where a thin caliper is required.

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