The fifth Marvaco InSight seminar, aimed at brand owners in the packaging industry, was organised in Helsinki with over 120 participants from 40 different brands. This year, the seminar was titled Expanded personality of brand packaging and the main focus was on the role of digitalization and personalization for brand packaging.

In FLEXO Magazine’s July article Kai Lankinen writes about flexo and gravure printing. How is flexo different today?

Siegwerk Group, a global supplier of packaging printing inks, was awarded with the EGP partnership certificate. The certificate recognises the company’s capability of delivering inks for successful implementation of the EGP production process in flexo and offset printing.

Soma Flexo Challenges Conference 2018 will be held in Lanskroun (CZ) on 30th of May. Marvaco will be showcasing HiQ EGP (Expanded Gamut Printing) and ganging of the print jobs into one run.

Packaging printing now greener with EGP! Pyroll Tako Carton Plant Ltd received Europe's first EGP partnership certificate for offset printing as a recognition for Pyroll's successful adoption of Expanded Gamut Printing technology in offset printing on packaging carton.

CMYK flexo printing is Magic! When you think that you know how it works, try something totally new and learn - that it works too!

Danish FlexoForum 2018 was held in Sorø (DK) with 100 participants. The focus was on the current hot topic Expanded Gamut

Marvaco and CSW Graphics have strategic partnership, that gives a boost to mutual development and brings new aspects to our work, for developing tools and services to our customers around the world.

Flint Group, a global supplier of high-quality flexo-printing plates and inks, was awarded the EGP partnership certificate. The certificate recognises the company’s capability of delivering tools for successful implementation of the EGP production process.

Marvaco focuses further on efficient repro-plate model, appoints new CEO and Chairman of the Board.

It is time to quiet down, relax and load batteries for a few days. But before that we would like to thank all our partners and customers for making the year 2017 unforgettable. It wouldn’t have been possible without you.

Elecster Oyj, a Finnish supplier of environmentally-friendly milk packaging and manufacturer of aseptic production lines, has received the third EGP partnership certificate in Europe. The certificate was awarded as a recognition for implementing the modern EGP production process.

The traditional FlexoTech Awards bring the leaders in flexography together. In 2017, the awards ceremony was organised in London on 23 November. The awards were granted to best flexography works from 2017. Finnish printing industry professionals using EGP (Expanded Gamut Printing) were again awarded this year.

Last spring four printing technican students from Brobygrafiska school from Sunne did their internship in Marvaco. The students were located in Sunne and Helsingborg in Sweden and in Helsinki in Finland. During these 3 months the students had the chance to train their skills and to get to know what their possible future job is really about.

The 10th international FlexoDay seminar was organized on 15 November in Bologna, Italy. The event was hosted by Italy's flexography association, ATIF (Associazione Tecnica Italiana per la Flessografia). Over 400 flexography and packaging industry professionals from several countries gathered in Bologna to network and discuss the latest news and the future of the industry. Marvaco was one of the companies to speak about EGP at the seminar.

Packaging was a topic of speech during the two day event held in Stockholm and in Helsinki in early October. Marvaco participated both fairs.

Happy to announce the first, second and third place in our competition during #Empack2017 #marvaco #marvacogroup

The largest packaging events in the Nordic region are held in Stockholm and in Helsinki. Marvaco will participate in both events with it´s own booth.

Soma spol. s.r.o, A Czech manufacturer of high-quality flexo-printing machines, was awarded the EGP partnership certificate. The certificate recognises the company’s successful implementation of this modern production process. The certificate was awarded by Marvaco Ltd, a pioneer in modern EGP technology.

The traditional FlexoTech Awards bring the leaders in flexography together. In 2017, the awards ceremony will be organised in London on 23 November. The awards are granted to best flexography works from 2017. Several Finnish flexography companies were accepted into the finals of this internationally prestigious competition.

A Finnish manufacturer of high-quality flexo-printed packaging, Westpak Oy Ab, was awarded Europe’s first EGP partnership certificate. The certificate recognises the company’s successful implementation of a modern production process. The certificate was awarded by Marvaco Oy, a pioneer in EGP technology.

Being efficient and productive market leader needs continuous investments on hardware and software. Looking forward to new tools to Finland and Sweden.

We wish everyone Happy Midsummer Festival and Happy Holidays! It means that summer really has begun. Even it's summer holiday season, Marvaco's offices will be open and in your service through the whole summer.

The Finnish Packaging Association organised the Flexo ABC training day at the Tampere University of Technology for the 11th time. More than 50 designers, buyers, and other actors of the packaging industry interested in flexography participated in the training. The Finnish experts on flexography, Matti Kiijärvi and Kai Lankinen, acted as the trainers in the event.

International Alliance of Two Innovative Premedia Companies Provides Clients with Greater Reach, Capacity and Brand Protection

The traditional Marvaco InSight seminar, aimed at brand owners in the packaging industry, was organised at the Radisson Blu Royal hotel in Helsinki in April.

At the start of March 2017 Olle Olsson of Kostym designindustries, part of the Marvaco group, won an honorary award for his achievements in design and marketing at Guldvargen.

Our Sweden Managing Director Leif Backman started his pension by making his own flexo printing at Broby school in Sunne. Friends and colleagues were celebrating together with Leif on his last working day.

This spring 3 students from Broby Graphical school will make their learning at work in Marvaco.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

By new year 2016/2017, the Swedish company FlexoPartner AB, specialized in prepress for flexoprinting are going to change their name to Marvaco AB.

Marvaco, Anilox Laser Technologies (ALT) and Polywest donated Brobygrafiska school the state-of-the-art banded anilox roller for the development of ultra-high definition flexo printing.

At the Wrap It Packaging Summit in Lahti with 350 participants our presentation was about the Full HD EGP - Expanded Gamut Printing. #packsummit

We are pleased to announce that Mikael Lang, 52, has been appointed as General Manager for Marvaco Ab starting on 1st of November 2016.

Westpak, Pa-Hu and Marvaco were once again successful in FlexoTech Awards 2016 packaging printing competition.

In Stockholm at Empack we represented the entire selection of our combined offering with Kostym Designindustries.

This year at PacTec 2016 in Helsinki we were giving a training session and shared the overview about the trends in packaging printing.

Marvaco reveals the extremely high quality and a highly economical Expanded Gamut Printing demo in Drupa 2016. The very demanding co-print design will be demonstrated on the daily run presentations in Drupa in May 31 - June 10, on the SOMA booth – Hall 15/A01.

Thanks to our valued customers and our excellent professionals, the business is growing and our service selection is expanding. In order to maintain the positive drive and growth, we are looking for Sales Managers to Sweden and Finland. Please, see the advertisement for more details.

Due to the growth of the prepress business, we are hiring a new DTP-operator in Helsingborg. Please, see the advertisement for more details.

Already the third year in row Marvaco arranged the Insight seminar for brand owners in April. The packaging industry expert, Rowland Heming, was invited to the seminar as the main speaker. The hall in Radisson Blu Royal hotel in Helsinki was filled with over 100 packaging professionals coming to hear about the Selling Power of Packaging Design.

Flekso ABC is a full day technical flexo printing basics -training. Training will be held at TTY, Festia-building, Pieni Sali 2. Korkeakoulunkatu 8, Tampere.

Marvaco expands its business by acquiring the operations of Kostym Designindustries AB, who specialise in packaging artwork design and operates in Central Sweden.

Congratulations to Pyroll Group for printing an excellent job! In cooperation Pyroll-Marvaco won the Silver medal in FTA Excellency in Flexography Awards 2016 in Texas. There were hundreds of participants in the competition and as always, the judgement criteria was set high.

Marvaco becomes a member in Paper Province.

Marvaco restructures the swedish organization and appoints a new Managing Director.

Marvaco takes the advantage of being close to Broby Graphical School and makes development on the real sized printing machine.

Marvaco is now signed up to Twitter. You can follow us as @MarvacoLtd.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Marvaco won gold medals in cooperation with Pa-Hu and DS Smith at FlexoTech International Print & Innovations Awards 2015 -competition in London.

Finnish companies continue to be successful at the international FlexoTech Awards 2015 printing competition as the jury has chosen the best-printed packages out of hundreds of samples for the final. Packaging printing companies DS Smith and Pa-Hu Oy are once again in the final, together with their prepress partner Marvaco Oy.

Oct 20–23th 2015, Gothenburg, Sweden

Oct 7-8th 2015, Helsinki, Finland

Marvaco, together with Pyroll Lempäälä and Vaasan Oy, won silver in the esteemed FTA Excellence in Flexography printing competition, held in the United States.

Like last year, we arranged a Marvaco InSight seminar for brand owners in the end of April. The top professional in packaging, Lars Wallentin, was invited to the seminar as a guest expert. The hall in Radisson Blu Royal hotel in Helsinki was filled with packaging professionals coming to see this brilliant guest.

During the spring we made a big investment in an automatic in-line production line of flexo printing plates. The line integrates three different process steps into a one process. The process offers the most uniform quality in the flexo printing market and reduces the load of the work.

The Finnish printing houses focusing on high-quality flexo printing, Oy Westpak Ab, Bemis Valkeakoski Oy, RKW Finland Ltd, and Peltolan Pussi Oy, have together with Marvaco been widely recognised in the finals of the EFIA 2015 Print Awards. The printing competition was held in Nottingham.

Marvaco invests, expands, and increases customer service in Sweden.

Flekso ABC is a full day flexo printing basics -training. Training will be held at TTY, Festia-building, Pieni Sali 2. Korkeakoulunkatu 8, Tampere.

Marvaco increases its capacity and operations by buying FlexoPartner AB, who operates in Sunne and in Örebro in Sweden. FlexoPartner is a packaging repro house and manufacturer of flexo printing plates and laser engraved sleeves with a high level of competence and service.

Due to the growth of the prepress business, we are hiring new DTP-operators both in Helsinki and Ulvila. Please, see the advertisement for more details. Fluent finnish language is expected.

Elecster Oyj has received the Full HD Flexo -partnercertificate due to its high print quality together with Marvaco.

We have currently prepress- and plate operator vacancies open at Marvaco in Helsingborg, Sweden. Please, see the announcement and when interested, leave your application according to the guide lines.

Tarratuote received the Full HD Flexo partner certificate due to it's excellent label print quality.

The celebration of the 100th anniversary changed the name of Linds Flexo and the joint venture of the two companies made it the biggest flexo plate producer and the leading prepress company in the Nordic Countries.

After a successful Marvco Insigh Spring seminar in March, Lars Wallentin now returned back to Finland in Marvaco's Autumn workshop for three days in October.

Marvaco was at Nordic Pack -fair in Tampere from October 8th to 10th.

Dokument-Tarra received together with Marvaco the first Full HD Flexo -partnercertificate in labels.

RKW Finland Ltd shall receive yet another award at a prestige Flexo Tech Awards printing competition with its partner Marvaco Ltd.

Ab Rani Plast Oy has received the Full HD Flexo -partnercertificate due to its high print quality together with Marvaco. This certificate is 10th in the World and fifth in the Nordic countries.

Pyroll Salo has been rewarded with the Full HD Flexo partner certificate for its high print quality. In cooperation with Marvaco the Full HD Flexo jobs are showing strong colors, contrast and sharp details even in combination with the vignettes. The new technology allows even more efficient packaging printing production with the highest possible quality.

Marvaco's MD Kai Lankinen and Flexica's MD Matti Kiijärvi held the Flexo ABC training in Tampere on 27.5.2014. There were 47 participants from several companies across the printing and graphics industry among others flexible packaging, corrugated packaging, labels as well as design agencies and brand owners.

Marvaco's partners won the FTA Excellence in Flexography -awards as the best in class in USA, Baltimore. RKW Finland Oy won the gold award and got the"Best of Show" -award with the Falcon BBQ print job. Pa-Hu Oy won bronze medal with the Hau Hau Champion job. Marvaco delivered the prepress and the plates to the both winning entries.

Finnish packaging prepress and flexoprinting is on the best level in Europe. The finnish packaging printers RKW Finland Ltd and Pa-Hu Ltd, together with the packaging prepress house Marvaco Ltd, won gold medals at EFIA 2014 Print Awards with two designs in UK.

Finnish packaging printers RKW Finland Ltd and Pa-Hu Ltd, together with the packaging prepress house Marvaco Ltd, have achieved highly rated rankings in finals with four different designs in international competitions in UK and USA.

Oy WestPak Ab has received the Full HD Flexo patner certificate from EskoArtwork. This has been accomplished in cooperation with Marvaco. The Full HD Flexo certificate is the fifth in the world.

EU regulation No 1169/2011 of food information into force 13.12.2014. In practice, the EU regulation means that almost all tens and hundreds of thousands food packages, sold in Finland and Europe, have to be renewed by year 2014. The transition period has been effective since 2011. – Are you prepared?

Marvaco made a massive investment for brand owners and printing houses in HD and Full HD production in Finland and Sweden.

Marvaco together with it's partners has received already three Full HD Flexo partner certificates.

Cooperation between Pa-Hu Oy and Marvaco won golden medal in FlexoTech 2013 -competition in London on 17th of October. The HAU HAU Champion work was rewarded as the best of the class for sacks and corrugated pre-print liner in it's category. The gold medal for this CMY-process printed job shows that the skillful combination of printing efficiency and top quality can be reached with professional work.

RKW Finland Ltd is the first Nordic printing house, that has received the highly ranked Full HD Flexo Partner Certificate. In the world RKW Finland is among the three first ones to receive this recognition.

Marvaco will be present at the PacTec fair in Messukeskus in Helsinki during 3. to 5. of September. The PacTec fair is held simultaneously with FoodTec, GrafTec and PlasTec fairs. You are welcome meet us at section 6m94!

The international success of Marvaco’s customer co-operation will continue in the FlexoTech 2013 competition. The pallet ribbon job “HAU HAU Champion” printed by Pa-Hu Oy is involved in the awards ceremony in London, England 17th of October.

Marvaco, the forerunner of Scandinavian packaging pre-press houses, has achieved a coveted packaging print world Full HD Flexo -certificate. The certificate is granted by Esko. Previously, only two other operators in the world have achieved this merit. The Marvaco certificate is the first in the Nordic Region.

The Finnish packaging pre-media company Marvaco achieves a significant role in Scandinavia. Marvaco expands its operations to Sweden by acquiring the Linds Flexo prepress company in Helsingborg, South-Sweden. The company will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2014.

From now on Sata-Flexo, Marvaco, Mac-repro and B-Fast are known as Marvaco Oy.