Drying, Curing & UV
Stic Image chooses UV LED curing for sustainability and savings
Independent label printer realises a wide range of benefits when upgrading from conventional UV to UV LED.
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tic Image is unusually located for a label printing works, situated in a residential area close to the heart of the city of Lyon, in France. The company’s owner, Cyrille Roze, is well known in the industry through his two terms as President of the French National Union of Adhesive Label Manufacturers (UNFEA). He has been at the helm of Stic Image since 2015 and in that time has consistently invested in the latest print technologies to maintain a competitive edge in the market.
Roze begins with a brief overview of his business: “The company has been founded in 1994 and we are operating on 2,500 square metres, approximately. 40 people are working at Stic Image. We are working in three shifts. We are a generalist, I mean we are working with the agro food industry, also on the pharma industry and we are working a little bit on wine and spirits. Here we supply between 400 and 500 diff erent customers.” This broad customer base, made up of smaller to mid-size companies, is the result of a deliberate strategy to reduce Stic Image’s dependency on fewer, larger clients. However, the ever-sharpening client focus on sustainability is no longer restricted to larger brands alone. It is now a consideration for customers at every level, as Roze explains: “Sustainability becomes a very big point of attention for everybody. So we are working on our waste, our energy consumption, what we can save and our carbon footprint. Recyclability is now probably one of the biggest entry points by our customers. It’s usually the fi rst question that they are asking. “So it’s more and more important. We are working internally to try to improve our production methods, to decrease our energy consumption, to decrease our material consumption of course, but we are also trying to give good advice to our customers, to provide the right label on the right packaging to enable the recyclability of the packaging. I would say that as far as the customers are concerned, they are more concerned about the global carbon footprint of the company. Everything we are doing for the
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July/August 2025
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