DuPont celebrates 1,000th Cyrel Fast installation

A DuPont Cyrel Fast installation at SGS International, a repro house based in Kentucky, USA, is the 1000^th since its launch in 2000. 

Introduced at the 2000 drupa trade fair and commercialized in 2001, DuPont Cyrel Fast is a thermal flexographic plate processing system that requires no solvents or liquids. 

‘We were one of the first Cyrel Fast customers for DuPont and we now have 17 Fast units in plants around the globe,’ said Marriott Winchester, senior vice president, SGS. ‘We initially liked the system because it was a dry process with a small footprint and rapid-access platemaking capability.  And, with its improved environmental performance, we could easily expand capacity or start up new operations and with confidence that we would fall within local regulatory guidelines.  When a leading retailer introduced a sustainability scorecard to the industry, the certified Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) that DuPont sponsored confirmed the reduction in greenhouses gases and energy consumption associated with Cyrel Fast, and put us in a position to help our customers meet their increasingly challenging sustainability goals.’

The DuPont Cyrel Fast system eliminates the need for processing solvents and removes the drying step.  This is claimed to reduce greenhouse gas generation by over 50 percent and non-renewable energy consumption by over 60 percent. 

SGS offers design-to-print graphic services to the international consumer products packaging market. Brand development, creative design, pre-press, image carriers and print support services are utilized in each of the three main printing processes: flexography, gravure and offset.  

Pictured l-r: Brian Schoulties, Mark Bolling, Roger Shelton, Jim Breeze, Jason Bowman and Chris Cash of SGS, and Mark McCollum of DuPont Packaging Graphics

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