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INKISH loves to hear about opinions and strategies from industry leaders. In this too short interview with Benoit Chatelard, President of Flint group Digital & Xeikon CEO we get to hear about the importance and relevance of the different printing technologies they bring to the market and why they are doing a show like Xeikon Café. A great interview in an open spirit and I feel confident that we will have more interesting stories and initiatives from XEIKON to report on in the future! Enjoy!

A state-of-the-art Workflow and easy integration with multiple partners as part of the print value chain are key to conquering the Print industry 4.0 arena. INKISH gets the unfiltered answers to very important building blocks in the strategy Xeikon is betting on. Our own Jacques Michiels conducts this really interesting talk with Jeroen Van Bauwel, Director Product Management of Xeikon.

Xeikon’s Vice President Marketing in conversation with Jacques Michiels, proudly showing (off) the new TITON digital printing press and explaining the all-new and unique Dry Toner technology for unique paper-based applications. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-weymans-4279101/

Interview with Tom Allum, Owner &Chairman of Abbey Labels (UK). Abbey Labels have been working in the digital label printing business for more than 10 years and are an important user of Xeikon digital equipment. Tom among other things explains the great importance of seamless color matching between flexo printing technology and Xeikon’s Digital Dry toner technology and why it is of the utmost importance when dealing with brand owners and food packaging in particular. Abbey Labels as an important player in the label business is constantly looking to improve and invest in the best and most suitable innovations to go forward. Tom shares some of their plans for the near future. SO important to hear about how technology and the right choice of solutions can drive one's success.

Gerald Glaas talks to us about innovation in the development, design, and manufacturing of rotary tools, modules, and specialty machines widely used in film, foil, packaging, nonwovens, and paper converting industries.

Lemorau, a family-owned company, develops and manufactures finishing equipment for the worldwide label industry. Jacques Michiels got the opportunity to talk to Susanna Teixera and learn more about their heritage and how they came to grow and now are exporting to 77 countries across the 5 continents. A lively encounter with an enthusiastic player in the label converting manufacturing space.

Nick Khatri from Lake Image Systems is a world leader in variable data integrity and print quality inspection for the security, labels, packaging, and commercial print industries. By reading and processing the variable data on many printed items, they provide solutions to inspect, verify, track and report on billions of secure documents, labels, plastic cards, and packages daily.

Established in August 2001, Kangdexin Composite Material Group (KDX) is a material technology firm mainly engaged in the development, production, and sale of high polymer materials. KDX is represented in more than 80 countries in the world and has subsequently established itself as a recognized laminating film brand. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-diruy-b6028935/

Rob Mayerson, on a quest to conquer more of Europe’s fine Label and Packaging PSPs. We learn about Label Traxx an MIS designed specifically for the Labels and Flexible Packaging sectors. Label Traxx and Batched also demonstrate their automated planning and scheduling extension. This powerful tool features a blend of artificial intelligence and machine learning with human engagement. Siteline, Label Traxx’s Customer Engagement Module, offers new features to further simplify the product management and reordering processes. It now includes a simple yet advanced artwork approvals process to help get jobs on press faster.

Jacques Michiels in conversation with Konstantinos Spyropoulos finding out about the expansion strategies they have in mind for Overprint MIS. Bel develops and delivers Overprint, an end-to-end modular print MIS, featuring open architecture, seamless connectivity, product customization, and user-intuitive workflow.

Jacques Michiels in conversation with Rainer Simon, General Manager Meech Int. Getting the grips on web cleaning to be able to prepare for quality print runs. Meech International is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of static control, compressed air technology, and web cleaning systems, both contact and non-contact. Meech has specialized in industrial electrostatic control for over 50 years and pioneered the industrial use of pulsed DC technology for static control and now has thousands of systems installed in the plastics, converting, printing, and packaging industries.

Phil Gaskin gets into the key features of the XMPie software. They provide powerful, variable data printing and web-to-print software that brings together customer databases and creative content. Working on top of Adobe creative suite, they help printers and businesses leverage their customer data and create personalized omnichannel experiences across print and digital channels.

Morten Toksvaerd from Grafotronic serving label industry customers worldwide since 2004. Grafotronic is best known for ultra-modular finishing machines. Each module is completely independent, and a new module can be retrofitted in an existing machine, on-site, in less than 8 hours. The truly modular concept is based on the latest technology available.

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We follow up on Peter Vogt, the CEO & founder of Labelhub. We find out that the cloud-based online platform is tailored specifically for digital label PSPs, helps to increase overall productivity, saves time in the process, and creates more transparency in the value chain. Peter & his colleagues offer their services on a monthly subscription basis. LabelHub is a Danish software company with more than 20 years of experience in the label industry.

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Marc Schillemans, Actega’s senior consultant talking to Jacques Michiels in this interview at the Xeikon Café 2022. They got talking about how sustainability is driving innovation and why they decide to introduce their first hardware product - the Ecoleaf – Actega is well known for developing, producing, and distributing of coatings, adhesives, and printing inks for labels and flexible packaging made of paper, plastic, and aluminum foil. 

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