Kodak and Bosisio announce packaging agreement

Eastman Kodak Company and Bosisio, an Argentina-based pre-press house, have announced a joint initiative that will enable Bosisio to provide new services and applications to brand owners and printers.

Bosisio is part of the Janoschka Group, a global organization specializing in packaging pre-press services. Janoschka has operations in 12 countries and employs more than 1,400 people.

The joint initiative will initially focus on customers in South America. Bosisio is an early adopter of new technologies, enabling it to expand its offerings which include reproduction and graphic services as well as printing tools for the rotogravure and flexographic markets. The company employs more than 130 people in its facility in Buenos Aires and three customer sites. The agreement enables Kodak to increase sales of products, services and packaging applications to multinational and global companies doing business in Latin America.

‘Bosisio has significant relationships with regional and international brand owners that will benefit from the expanded set of products, services and applications,’ said Javier Bosisio, co-owner of Bosisio. ‘Our relationship with Kodak began in 2010, with the installation of Kodak’s 100^th Flexcel NX System. Earlier this year, we’ve expanded our flexographic operations by installing the Kodak Flexcel NX Wide System. Now, we can significantly expand services to brand owners and printers for communications, brand management, brand protection, anti-diversion and counterfeit protection, proofing, print management and printing using all major printing processes and applications for packaging.’

For example, Bosisio can now offer Kodak’s complete Security Solutions portfolio in combination with Flexcel NX or rotogravure printing technology, as well as the complete turnkey Kodak Traceless AD Solution for anti-diversion protection on the final packaging line. This enables the company to offer a wide range of brand management options for shelf impact, along with overt and covert security for brand and consumer protection.

‘A fundamental point brand owners and retailers in packaging around the world have shared with me is the need to be innovative, differentiated and protective of their brand equity, enabling them to grow sales and customer loyalty for the future. Kodak sees this initiative as a major step in changing how the packaging industry achieves this for brand owners,’ said Gustavo Oviedo, chief customer officer, Eastman Kodak Company. ‘Our relationship is not limited to existing technologies, but will give Bosisio access for packaging applications in the next generations of flexo, offset, high speed digital, security, communication software, and services to enable Bosisio to provide those essentials necessary for their brand owner and print packaging customers to grow their businesses.’

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