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Member Profile: Day International, Inc.

Convention Preview: New Member Day International To Present in Amelia Island

Day International, Inc. celebrated its 100^th year of existence in 2005. Day serves the Printing & Publications Industries with an array of Image Transfer Products ranging from consumables in digital printing presses to conventional offset printing blankets. In addition, Day serves the Flexographic Marketplace with a line of sleeve and adaptor products. Day also has a portfolio of pressroom chemicals serving both the offset and Flexographic printing industries. The Daycollan brand of cutting mats is a premier product for die cutting in corrugated applications. Day continues to provide the growing printing industries with an array of highly engineered and innovative solutions.

Day’s technology base is broad and simultaneously integrated and focused on the Graphic Arts Industries as a whole. Day has a reputation for “highly engineered” consumables that give good value to the particular end user application.

Some bright spots for Day International in 2005

In 2005 Day continued its launch of “next generation” products for all market segments. Some of the noteworthy launches were the Durazone® family of offset blankets that add life to blanket performance, Clamlock® cutting mats that simplify changeover time when rotating mats, RM 70 metalback blankets for narrow gap newspaper presses, and significant growth in Flexographic integrated photopolymer blanks for the Cyrel Round® joint development with DuPont.

Goals for 2006

In 2006, Day will focus on new material technology integration in its well-established product lines, and new consumable development and launches in emerging markets. A significant focus for Day will be the Corrugated Industry, and the use of a new technology to integrate raised image creation with the cushions used to attach to the press. More details will come in this area. Day will focus on technological launches that will redefine today’s consumables along with pressroom performance.

How development has impacted Day

The integration of a digital workflow into all parts of the printing industry is the most important development in recent years. Though applied somewhat differently and to differing degrees of integration in offset, gravure, and flexography this development has lead to better cost structures and capabilities to serve the customers. In addition this development has created the market segment called digital printing that is now clearly a market of its own. Day has realigned its resources and developments to address the future product needs of the marketplace.

Upcoming presentation at Annual Convention in Amelia Island

The focus of our presentation is how the digital workflow can become an integral part of the corrugated prepress & platemakers’ world and allow them to realize a greater quality, productivity, and even lower costs using Day’s Direct Digital Solution for Corrugated. The digital revolution may have brought some benefits already to the prepress areas but this solution reduces steps and associated labor from the process to produce a press-ready printing element for corrugated printing 

FPPA membership

Day wants to continue to expand on its base of products in the printing industries. While chemicals, cutting mats, and sleeve products are supporting materials to flexography, Day would also like to expand to areas with a more direct influence on the print to the customer, much the way printing blankets and sleeves do in the offset industry.

Will Goss, of Day International, will be speaking on “Integrated Direct Digital Solution for Corrugated Flexographic Platemakers” at the 9^th Annual Convention, March 14, in Amelia Island, Florida.