Flint Group
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Flint Group: SWOT Analysis & Company
Profile
Reference code: BRIG036CP10-Q4
Published: Jan 2011
Business Review
John Carpenter House
7 Carmelite Street
London EC4Y 0BS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7936 6400
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7336 6813
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Flint Group
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Flint Group - Company Overview
Flint Group is one of the largest private printing solutions providers in the world. It is engaged in developing,
manufacturing and marketing a diverse range of conventional and energy curable inks and coatings; pressroom
chemicals; highly engineered printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing, pigments and additives. These are utilized
in inks and other colorant applications. The company offers a comprehensive range of products, which includes
conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for all flexographic, narrow web tag and label applications;
photopolymer printing plates and sleeves, platemaking equipment and flexographic sleeve systems. These products and
services are offered to international packaging and label printers. The company operates in more than 170 centers across
North, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Pacific Rim.
Flint Group is headquartered in Luxembourg.
Flint Group - Key Facts
Flint Group, Key Facts
26b, Boulevard Royal,
Luxembourg, , L-2449, Ticker Symbol, Stock
Corporate Address: N/A
Exchange
Luxembourg
Telephone + 49 711 9816230 No. of Employees 7,300
Fax + 49 711 981699230 Financial Year End N/A
URL www.flintgrp.com Revenue (in EUR Million) 2,100.00
Industry Industrial Goods and Machinery Revenue (in USD Million) 2,916.67
Locations Germany, Luxembourg
Source: Annual Report, Company Website, Primary and Secondary Research
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Flint Group
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Flint Group - Business Description
Flint Group is a supplier of printing inks and non-ink pressroom consumables to the global printing and packaging
industry. It offers printing inks, flexographic products such as printing plates and sleeves, narrow web inks, printing
blankets, sleeves, chemicals and supplies and colorants & additives for multiple applications. The company has presence
through more than 170 centers across North, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New
Zealand, India and the Pacific Rim. Flint Group employs about 7,800 people worldwide.
Its operations are organized under two business units, namely Packaging Applications and Print Media Applications. The
company through its Packaging Applications business unit offers a comprehensive array of products and services to
international packaging and label printers. The business unit comprises two divisions, including Flint Group Flexographic
Products Division and Flint Group Packaging and Narrow Web Division.
Its Flint Group Flexographic Products division is one of the leading global suppliers of flexographic and letterpress printing
plates and is a leader in sleeve and adapter supply. Its range of products includes Printing Plates such as flexo plates
corrugated plates, coating plates and letterpress plates; Plate Making Equipment include flexo plate making equipment
and letterpress plate making equipment; and washout solvent. It also offers In-The-Round Technology, including ITR
sleeves, compressible adapters and ITR processing equipment; and Sleeves and Adapters, include flexo printing sleeves,
adapters, compressible adapters and offset Sleeves. Flint Group’s Packaging and Narrow Web division is engaged in
providing exceptional products and expertise to label and packaging converters across the world. Its principal products
comprises of flexographic, gravure and sheetfed inks. These products are offered for Packaging and Narrow Web
applications for use in solvent-based, water-based and radiation-curable technologies. Its products are also utilized in all
relevant wide web and narrow web applications including paper and board, flexible packaging, in mould labels, wrap
around, self-adhesive labels, and shrink labels.
Flint Group through its Print Media Applications offers outstanding products and expertise to the printing industry across
the globe. The business unit comprises two divisions, namely Flint Group Print Media Division and Flint Group Pigments
Division. Its Print Media Europe division offers a combination of products, services and expertise. It includes inks and
coatings, pressroom chemicals, blankets, sleeves and consumables. Pigments Division of the company offers a range of
dry and flush pigments, dispersions, varnishes, additives, chips and resins. These products and services are offered to
various industries, including inks, coatings, latex, paper, textile, and plastics across the globe.
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Flint Group
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Flint Group - Major Products and Services
Flint Group is one of the largest suppliers to the printing and packaging industry worldwide. The company’s key products
include the following:
Flint Group, Major Products and Services
Products:
Printing inks
Printing plates
Varnishes
Adhesives
Colorants Additives
Auxiliary products and equipment
Security and special effect inks
Brands:
UV Flexo
UV Letterpress
UV Screen
Source: Annual Report, Company Website, Primary and Secondary Research
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Flint Group
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Flint Group - History
Flint Group, History
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