Anilox Firm Excplores Costa Rican Flexo Education

The Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje de Costa Rica (INA), in San Jose, has explored with Harper Corporation the possibility of establishing a hands-on flexo programme at the school.

The Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje de Costa Rica (INA), in San Jose, has explored with Harper Corporation the possibility of establishing a hands-on flexo programme at the school.

The institute became aware of the Harper Campus flexographic studies programme at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), the FTA Flexo in High Schools and Colleges programmes and the Phoenix Challenge Competition, through an interview with Ron and Katherine Harper published in Conversion Magazine, a Spanish-language industry publication.

INA has an overall student population of 15,000, and presently offers classes in both offset and screen printing.

The school's graphic arts instructor, Efrain Quiros Vargas, just spent two weeks at Harper's Advanced Technology Centre in Charlotte (USA), getting a comprehensive overview of flexographic teaching programmes and obtaining assistance in how to set up a such a programme at INA.

He also received training at CPCC's Harper Campus and the Flexographic Trade School and had the opportunity to operate Mark Andy and Comco presses.

Phoenix Challenge chairman Bettylyn Krafft accompanied Vargas on visits to observe the FTA Flexo In High Schools hands-on flexographic programmes at South Mecklenburg High School and Fort Mill High School.

They also toured the converters, Parks Printing and Label Tec, in the Charlotte area.

INA said that it has more than 40 eager students pre-registered for the course in flexography, as well as several converters in the San Jose area that have committed to assist with flexographic training at INA.

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