Flexo-Graphics was having a problem – and it was a good problem to have. Business was growing rapidly, but the company realized their internal processes were not keeping up with production demands. As their business grew and expanded, the need to clean their aniloxes effectively grew and expanded as well. Their problem was that the method of cleaning they used to clean their aniloxes “broke down too often and too fast.” Due to this unreliable cleaning system, Flexo-Graphics employees spent a few hours a day cleaning rolls by hand as well.
Two employees were dedicated to the manual cleaning of not only the anilox rolls, but the trays and parts as well. They used a combination of solvents and other cleaners but were having a hard time getting everything truly clean. Tim McDonough of Flexo-Graphics tells us that “our eyes were really opened when an ink vendor showed us how dirty our ‘clean’ aniloxes were” despite all the time and effort they had put into cleaning them.