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Leading prepress firm Marvaco remains at the
forefront of technology with Esko
Award-winning high quality flexo print and best-in-class customer
service now also recognized with FTA Best-of-Show as well as
gold and bronze awards
Ghent (Belgium), June 2014 – Long-time Esko customer Marvaco continues to broaden its
relationship with Esko which goes back to the early 90's. Working with Esko's solutions, including six
CDI's with HD Flexo and Full HD Flexo technology as well as a range of prepress and workflow
software, Marvaco is building offerings that ensure the highest possible print quality for brand
owners and printers across the entire packaging supply chain.
“As one of the leading prepress suppliers in the Finnish market, we work closely with brand owners
and printers to continually achieve higher quality and greater efficiency,” says Kai Lankinen, Managing
Director of Marvaco. “Esko is a business critical partner in enabling our market-leading performance.”
Quality and efficiency gains
Marvaco is one of the leading prepress companies in the Nordic Region, with over 70 employees
and annual turnover of €8.5 million in 2013. Its relationship with Esko began when the company
installed the first ArtPro software in Finland in 1995. Over the years, Marvaco continued its
innovation path and has today six Esko CDI's and four sites in Finland and Sweden. The most
recent addition is the CDI 5080 with Inline UV-2, which facilitated its achievement of the Esko Full
HD Certification, next to the partner Certification for their work with RKW Finland. In total, Marvaco's
qualifications has enabled it to certify 18 packaging printers as Esko HD Flexo Certified partners.
“Esko HD Flexo is thé standard in the market, brand owners and customers simply request it,” says
Lankinen. “The ability to offer Esko Full HD Flexo elevates quality and efficiency in both flexible and
corrugated packaging. Brand owners and printers have been saying thank you for the superior quality
it enables. That is significant, and it helps our brand owner and printer customers win market share.”
Improved communication across all supply chain participants
Marvaco also works with a raft of Esko software solutions, including ArtPro, Studio, DeskPack,
PackEdge, Automation Engine and FlexRip. “These Esko solutions enable us to be as efficient as
possible, supplying the best services to our customers,” says Lankinen. The newest addition to
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Marvaco’s software portfolio is Esko WebCenter. “WebCenter is an outstanding customer portal that
keeps all of the prepress and project data in one place, offering improved communications across
the supply chain as well as improved workflow management,” adds Lankinen. “Today, an increasing
number of participants in the packaging supply chain are collaborating amongst each other, and this
near-real-time capability makes that collaboration much more valuable. We are also finding that
WebCenter speeds time to market by improving the control of approval cycles.”
Award-winning innovation
It is this kind of innovation that helps maintain long-term relationships, explains Lankinen.
“WebCenter is not something customers are asking for yet,” he says. “They are used to the
traditional way of working, and many have their own internal systems for approval; but typically
these are not as efficient. Like HD Flexo, we believe that soon brand owners will also be specifying
web collaboration tools like WebCenter.”
With its innovation and commitment to quality, and its long-term partnership with Esko and other key
partners like RKW Finland, Marvaco and its customers are no strangers to various industry awards,
having achieved 29 international awards and recognitions since 2002. Its latest industry accolades
include two gold awards at the recent EFIA Print Awards 2014, and a gold and bronze awards at the
prestigious FTA 2014 Excellency in Flexography Awards where Marvaco together with RKW Finland
additionally also received the Best-of-Show award.
Long term market leader
“We constantly strive to maintain our market leadership position and give our customers an edge.
We have been the first in Finland to leverage a wide range of pioneering technologies that result in
significant improvements to print quality and competitive advantage by making production more
efficient and expanding the color gamut,” concludes Lankinen. “We have partnered with Esko for a
long time. Their solutions have been a key enabler to our ability to develop solutions that increase
our market differentiation. And we are already planning our next investment to help us maintain this
leading position in Scandinavia and further increase our market share in the coming years.”
About Marvaco
Marvaco is the Nordic Region’s leading prepress supplier for all type of packaging printing methods to
brand owners and printers. Marvaco employs around 75 people in Finland and Sweden.
For more information, visit www.marvaco.fi.
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Image Captions
 Esko_Marvaco1 Kai Lankinen, Managing Director of Marvaco
 Esko_Marvaco2 project Falcon BBQ produced with Esko Full HD Flexo winning Best of
Show Award at FTA in Baltimore
 Esko_Marvaco3 project Falcon BBQ produced with Esko Full HD Flexo winning Best of
Show Award at FTA in Baltimore
 Esko_Marvaco4 project KOFF Lite produced with Esko Full HD flexo
 Esko_Marvaco5 project KOFF Lite produced with Esko Full HD flexo
 Esko_Marvaco6 ESKO CDI 5080 with Inline UV-2 installation at Marvaco
About Esko (www.esko.com)
Esko is a global supplier of integrated solutions for the packaging and labels, sign and display,
commercial printing and publishing industries. Esko products and services drive profitability in the
packaging and printing supply chain by reducing time-to-market and raising productivity.
Portfolio
The Esko product portfolio supports and manages the packaging and print processes at brand
owners, retailers, designers, packaging manufacturers and print service providers. For 9 out of 10
retail packages, Esko solutions are used in packaging management, artwork creation, structural
design, prepress, 3D visualization, plate making, workflow automation, quality assurance, samplemaking, palletization, supply chain collaboration and the production of signage and displays.
The Esko solutions consist of an extensive suite of software and two hardware product lines: CDI flexo
computer-to-plate imagers and Kongsberg digital cutting systems, complemented with professional
services, training and consultancy.
Enfocus, with its suite of automation solutions and PDF quality control tools for printers, publishers,
and graphic designers, is part of Esko.
Facts & numbers
Esko employs around 1300 people worldwide. Its direct sales and service organization covers Europe,
Middle East and Africa, the Americas and the Asia Pacific, Japan and China regions and is
complemented by a network of distribution partners in more than 50 countries.
Esko is headquartered in Gent, Belgium, and has R&D and manufacturing facilities in five European
countries, the United States, China and India. Esko is a Danaher company (www.danaher.com).
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