Esko, global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions, has announced that the CDI plate imaging unit recently installed at Inovar Packaging Group in Texas was the 5000th of its CDI and XPS exposure unit platemaking equipment to be sold.
The first Esko CDI — which stands for Cyrel Digital Imager — was installed at Warburger Klischee-Anstalt GmbH in the German town of Warburg in 1996. Two decades later, in 2016, Esko then introduced its Crystal XPS LED plate exposure device, with the first machine that rolled off the production line installed at Glatz Klischee GmbH in Austria.
In 2023, the XPS Crystal achieved both Certified Energy Savings (41 percent for tradeshops, 59 percent for converters) and Dematerialization (92 percent reduction in waste) certifications from GreenCircle, an internationally recognized third-party certification entity that independently verifies the validity of sustainability claims.
