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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Roto-Hybrid team recently attended and spoke at the ERA Paper and the ERA Environment, Health and Safety Commissions meeting in Würzburg, Germany. At a time when there is much uncertainty as to the up and coming REACH regulations in respect of chromium compounds in gravure and their future use, increasing regulations and possible outright […]

The Roto-Hybrid team recently attended and gave a presentation at the Gravure Association of the Americas Technical Forum, typically held in the Autumn, in Clearwater, Florida. Opening the event was a keynote speech on ‘The Opportunity for Transformative Breakthrough in Gravure’ by Professor Robert Eller of the Rochester Institute of Technology and as part of […]

Hybrid Cylinders Blog

Will REACH Chromium Regulations affect anilox roll manufacturing

Roto-Hybrid Process Year 1 European Commission project review

Roto-Hybrid Process 2018 trials underway

Roto-Hybrid speak at 2018 Gravure Global Summit

Roto-Hybrid discuss chrome free gravure at ERA

Roto-Hybrid speak at the 2017 GAA Technical Forum

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