From
21 to 23 May 2012, the Security Document World conference (SDW) took place in
the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre of Westminster, London, UK. SDW is an
international event for technology suppliers and security document printers as
well as infrastructure providers and integrators in the fast-moving security
document market place. Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the event brought
record numbers - with about 350 delegates at the conference, about 90
exhibitors and 1400 visitors at the exhibition.
An
important target of the three-day conference was the networking between the
decision makers from industry and governments. Products and services for
document security, e-Passports, visas, driving licences, national IDs, worker
credentials, advanced border control, anti-counterfeiting, fraud detection and
much more were presented. As an exhibitor, Flint Group Flexographic Products showcased
its complete printing plate portfolio for security and banknote printing.
Especially
in security and banknote printing, the highest possible precision is required
for fine texts and guilloche patterns. Flint Group’s nyloprint WS and WS
Digital plates are utilised for these and similar purposes in direct or
indirect letterpress printing. For inking-up the gravure cylinders in intaglio
printing presses, the water washable nyloprint stencil plates WS 225, WS 230 S
and WS 230 S Digital are the perfect choice. In intaglio printing the nyloprint
gravure printing plates ST 52, WSA 52 and WSA 52 Digital act as the master form
used in the galvanic processing of the actual printing plate. The conventional
and digital nyloflex Gold A plates complete the security plate portfolio for
inline and offline coating. They can be used in sheetfed offset presses as well
as in special application presses.
Markus
Muehlfeit, Product Manager Flexographic Products, is pleased with the result:
“Many visitors from several countries showed great interest in our printing
plate portfolio. We managed to intensify existing relationships and to
establish interesting new contacts to the key players in the security printing
business.”
