Case Studies

“We have bought a new, high quality machine W&H Novaflex 2 fitted with anilox sleeves from Sandon Global, we can achieve and maintain the highest possible quality. The anilox sleeves helps us to get a very high print quality. Wear is a lot less than the other brand of anilox sleeves we are using. The conclusion is that the Sandon Global anilox sleeves helps us enormously to achieve the highest quality on our most modern, high quality machine.” Vincent Tetro. KIVO Production Manager.

After years of frustration trying to get quality aniloxes for our narrow web presses, I started looking beyond North America for a solution. My search took me to the Sandon Global website. I was intrigued by what I saw and the one thing that caught my eye was this: “We take great pride in the performance and engraving consistency produced by our time-served engineers, laser operators and finishers.” I needed to see this. I was starting to think a decent anilox was a thing of the past.
I reached out to Sandon Global for a quote and discussions on an order of rollers. With their location in the UK and Total Label Inc. located in Western Canada, I was not sure how communications would be however I was impressed as a cheerful reply came very quickly and the rest just fell into place and the order was sent in. Now I thought.. what will these aniloxes be like? When they arrived, they were light in the hands and the cells were so uniform, it was amazing. The aniloxes have become an important part of our production. I have also noticed that the aniloxes run and stay cleaner. Any cell plugging that occurs during a run washes out easily (compared to the other brands we have). I strongly recommend that you give them a try! Gary Johanson, Total Label Inc.

“We purchased Sandon Global aniloxes in October 2017 and May 2018. We did not discover any issues with the aniloxes using them in our production, on the contrary, the performance of the aniloxes is excellent – good ink transfer, durable ceramic coating, solvent-resistant sleeve construction, consistent results on long print runs. Summing up, Sandon Global aniloxes have good quality, reasonable price, reliability. I shall definitely recommend them to my colleagues.”

Borovikov Maxim V.  Technical Engineer Flexo Printing Division

“Our Anilox were regularly becoming chipped and damaged when being moved to and from the printing press. Sandon Global’s sleeve covers are robust and offer significant protection.”

Dale Smith

“The patent pending “GMX” GB1520915.8 outperformed previous standard specifications by applying a market leading tactile coating on our beer label. This is due to the cells ability to pick up and transfer large particles due to its shallow nature.”

Mark Freestone

“Regular anilox audits conducted by the Sandon Global Technical Team help us to proactively manage our anilox inventory, improving efficiency and extending the lifespan as a by-product.”

Stephen King

“We were experiencing slow running speeds when printing screen whites on certain label jobs, reducing print efficiency and increasing setup costs. After trials of the High Opacity White engraving, in conjunction with a good quality ink, we were able to improve screen quality with no ink reticulation and no pinholes. An added benefit was the increase in speed of this process.”

Nick Monk

“Horizontal storage on traditional racking is not an ideal way of storing anilox as it point loads the weight of the anilox along the vulnerable fibre glass inner sleeve. If sleeve covers were not being utilised the anilox were left exposed to the print environment. The Ani Store (Static) is manufactured at the perfect lifting height for operators. We have found that the design reduces the risk of impact damage, installing and removing the anilox from the unit, and offers protection when in situ and has saved us considerable shop floor space.”

David Jones

“Ink spitting on specific colours is a well-known challenge using traditional engraving designs. We tested the Combination 75° “Fluid UV” engraving from Sandon Global and the channelled nature allowed ink to pass smoothly onto the plate, reducing ink-pressure build up and blade vibration. This solved the issue of ink spitting on particular difficult and stiff inks.”

Allister Bradshaw

“Ani Store (Mobile) has been successfully installed at our site providing a completely mobile storage solution meaning we can save valuable production time when cleaning machines.”

Steve Melville

“We targeted a project to enter in numerous print awards so turned to Sandon Global to assist. Their High Definition Process engraving “xPro” was selected to maximise print results offering in excess of 200 dpi screens. The high line count engraving helped control very fine HD highlight areas which resulted in a multi award winning self-adhesive label design.”

Tim Pattison

“Quite simply we had an urgent order with a short lead time. Sandon Global supported us to achieve the customer requirement.”

David Bellamy

“We required an anilox urgently to meet a tight deadline for a cold foil application. Sandon Global managed to turn round in 4 days allowing us to hit the customers requirement. Invaluable service when the pressure is on.”

Paul Larkin

“Sandon Global’s anilox audits have reduced our downtime through highlighting anilox volume readings which lead to colour matching issues.”

Ian Furmage

“We were tasked with achieving a tactile paper feel effect on printed film. Using the patent pending “GMX” GB1520915.8  engraving from Sandon Global on a banded anilox we were able to offer a range of specifications to meet the end users requirement.”

Brian Kendall