Asahi Photoproducts Appoints Daniel Illmer as International Sales Manager
Experienced sales and business development manager in international markets, Illmer will be available at Proflex in Stuttgart to discuss topics including Carbon Neutrality with attendees Tokyo, Japan & Brussels, Belgium, September 8, 2022. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, today announced that Daniel Illmer is joining the company as International Sales Manager, […]
Asahi Photoproducts Appoints Emmanuel Mougenot as International Sales Manager
Experienced flexo expert, Mougenot will manage sales professionals and distributors in Benelux, France, Spain and other countries to be determined Tokyo, Japan & Brussels, Belgium, June 10, 2022. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, today announced that experienced flexographic professional Emmanuel Mougenot is joining the company as International Sales Manager, responsible for […]
Asahi Kasei Appoints Senior Industry Expert Gene Martin as Agent Representing Its Products in the United States
Gene uniquely qualified for this role with 40 years of prepress and flexographic experience Tokyo, Japan & Brussels, Belgium, June 6, 2022. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, today announced that long-time Asahi customer and senior industry expert Gene Martin has been appointed to represent the company and its products in the […]
Asahi Photoproducts Announces PAS 2050 Certification of their water wash AWPTM-DEF/DEW Flexo Plates by the Carbon Trust
This certification is a milestone toward the ultimate goal of PAS 2060 Carbon Neutral certification Tokyo, Japan & Brussels, Belgium, November 5, 2021. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, today reported it has received PAS 2050 certification by the Carbon Trust for its AWPTM-DEF/DEW CleanPrint water-washable flexographic plates. This certification is the […]
Asahi Photoproducts and Esko Join Forces to Educate Chinese Market on Flexo Platemaking in Harmony with the Environment
Tokyo, Japan & Brussels, Belgium, November 20, 2020. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, today reported it extended its relationship with Esko through an agreement to install Esko plate imaging solutions in the Asahi Tech Center in Suzhou, near Shanghai. The agreement, which was entered into during All-in-Print China, will result in […]
Asahi and Esko collaborate to develop breakthrough automated flexo platemaking solution
Tokyo, Japan & Brussels, Belgium, November 12, 2020. Asahi Photoproducts, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development, and Esko, a global provider of integrated hardware and software solutions for the packaging, label and wide format sectors, have today announced their collaboration on developing an innovative and automated flexo platemaking solution. The collaboration will bring together […]
Clean and in balance with the environment
As regulatory agencies around the world place more stringent focus on environmental sustainability, Asahi Photoproducts continues to innovate platemaking technology with a solution that aims to produce plates in an office-type environment, processing photopolymer reducing VOC’s into the atmosphere. CleanPrint plates use less ink, emitting fewer VOCs in the pressroom. There is less makeready waste […]
CleanPrint: The Details
In designing next-generation flexographic plates, Asahi’s polymer chemists have created chemical structures that can hold precise image structures, including the smallest highlight dots, for the entire duration of a print run. While this may sound simple, it took an enormous amount of innovation to achieve and is unique in the marketplace. Marketed as CleanPrint, Asahi […]
Clean Print: The historical development of the naming convention
Since Asahi first brought to market its innovative flexographic plate technology that enabled complete release of ink onto the substrate for a cleaner image and fewer press stops for plate cleaning, our thoughts about the value of the technology have evolved. Our customers remember that we initially called this technology Pinning Top Dot technology, since […]
Looking Ahead
2018 has been another exciting year in the flexographic industry, and for Asahi Photoproducts and our customers. We are looking forward to continuing momentum in 2019, and we have new innovations in the works that we will be sharing at Labelexpo Europe 2019 and drupa 2020. Our success would not be possible without the loyal […]
