Case study – Steurs’ 360-degree approach broadens flexo

An anniversary is a time for reflection: a time to pause, look back, and see how far one’s come. Steurs Graphic Solutions can look back a long way — 70 years, to 1949, when the two Steurs brothers started what has become one of Belgium’s leading packaging prepress houses. The backward look will be a short one because all eyes at the Antwerp-based business are firmly fixed on the present and the future — ‘on continuing to create solutions for today and tomorrow,’ as the company’s tagline has it. Steurs Graphic Solutions, one of the leading prepress bureau of Belgium   Those solutions have to do a lot in today’s packaging market, says general manager Dirk Cantens. “We work across all three processes — gravure, offset and flexo — and the full spectrum of packaging materials: metal, plastic, folding cartons, glass, and foil. Not only are we operating in a constantly changing sector, but one where every brand, printer, and converter has its own needs. Every environment is different.” He adds, however, that there are…

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