At Labelexpo India 2022, DuPont will present its latest technologies and solutions alongside live demonstrations for platemaking to improve label printing/converting and create new business goals. At Stand L20, Hall 5, India Expo Center, Greater Noida, 10-13 November 2022, DuPont will focus on high-performing innovative technologies to address label converters’ challenges to achieve their sustainability, productivity, and quality goals.
DuPont Cyrel Fast
Cyrel Fast is a thermal platemaking system that consists of a thermal processor and a large variety of photopolymer printing plates for flexible packaging, labels and other applications. The Cyrel Fast system offers superior productivity and performance while helping to reduce processing costs, time, and environmental impact compared to the existing solvent method. By eliminating the use of solvents – including water – from the platemaking process, the Cyrel Fast system requires no drying time and plates can be ready for print in under 45 minutes.
The system is an achievement of more than 20 years of continuous evolution and investment into this platform and has resulted in more than 1500 installations globally. And this year we hit the 200th installation of its latest version, the Fast 2000TD.
Delivering solutions for global sustainability challenges
Recently DuPont published the 2022 Sustainability Report that reinforces the company’s sustainability strategy – to help power its transformation as a premier multi-industrial company and to strengthen its portfolio to deliver long-term value creation. The report brings a comparison of the conventional solvent platemaking system with Cyrel Fast thermal digital processing system; the result is that Cyrel Fast is more efficient.
According to the third-party reviewed LCA released in 2021 the Cyrel Fast systems are shown to have a 38% lower impact in GWP and an NRE consumption of 56% lower compared to the digital system with solvent, excluding the raw plate manufacturing impact. When plate manufacturing is included, the GWP impact is 17% lower and the NRE consumption is 20% lower, compared to the digital process with solvent. The Cyrel Fast 2000 TD equipment also reduces VOCs emissions by 99.7% due to its patented Catox System.
Designed for LED exposure
Recently launched Cyrel Lightning plates technology received the prestigious 2022 FTA Technical Innovation Award. The new Cyrel Lightning plate family is optimized for UV-LED exposure units to make full use of this system’s capabilities. The benefits of the plates include a further optimized match between access time and plate performance, while not compromising the print quality.
Previously, exposure settings on LED units often had to be adjusted for either higher quality or shorter access time. The Cyrel Lightning plates challenge this as they were formulated from the ground up with UV-LED exposure characteristics in mind. The Cyrel LSH represents the first photopolymer plate of the Lightning family. It is solvent-processable and currently available in 045 and 067 gauges.