100th HELL direct laser goes to Anilox in Croatia

Recently, HELL has launched the 100th direct laser for the customer Anilox, Croatia. Delivery is scheduled for the fall.

Croatian service house Anilox is a regional market leader in prepress and cylinder engraving for printing of flexible packaging and decorative printing. The product portfolio also includes anilox rollers, transfer rollers for ink, varnish, adhesive, wax, UV and other coatings as well as rotary hot stamping dies. With the introduction of advanced technologies, direct laser engraving, Anilox will expand the spectrum of services and products of special requirements to its end users, better adapte d to actual demands for green and sustainable industry. The project is supported by the Norway Grants 2014-2021, in the frame of the Program Business Development and Innovation Croatia.

At the Kiel headquarters, direct lasers are developed under the product name PremiumSetter for elastomer printing form production in relief printing, e.g. for dry offset, tissue printing, coating cylinders and flexible packaging. The Cellaxy direct laser, on the other hand, is a universal laser platform focused on surfaces made of metal and polymer materials, such as those used for gravure printing forms, embossing cylinders and transfer rollers.