The quality of flexo has taken such a quantum leap," says Tim Fred-man Jr. "The equipment, processes and materials are all getting better. It's allowing flexo to take a bite out of the other [print methods]." As president of Milwaukee-based flexi- ble-packaging converter Fredman Bag, Tim should know. His family-owned, 115-year-old company has been printing with flex-ography for nearly 30 years. Founded in 1889 by Fredman's great-great-grandfather, the company concentrated its, business for the first 80 years in bags, produced in paper and textile materials, before adding polyethylene bagmaking machinery in 1970. Two CI-flexo press installations and a new focus on value-added flex packs over the next three decades led to the adoption of reclosable-zipper application systems in the early 1990s. Its latest vote for the advantages of flexo: The November 2003 installation of an Emerald 825 8-color, gearless Cl-flexo press from Uteco Converting (Kennesaw, GA).
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