Business Management - Operations

With a need for short runs of beer labels for its small batches of craft beer, San Diego-based Home Brewing Co. decided to reassess how it sourced its labels. Check out this case study from BRAND United, which details how transitioning from offset to digitally-printed labels helped the brewery increase its design flexibility, reduce inventory and cut costs.

Flextec Corporation, a primary label and printed packaging supplier located in Colorado Springs, Colo., has appointed David Young to the position of director of operations.

Built in or added on, systems that enable a press’s basic functions or extend its capabilities are must-have components for truly competitive performance.

A panel of digital printing adopters took the stage at the Digital Packaging Summit to discuss their first-hand experiences with the technology. The panel provided advice for label, folding carton and corrugated printers interested in digital printing.

ePac Flexible Packaging is expanding into the Atlanta market by opening a plant in Gwinnett County in early 2019. ePac Atlanta is a partnership between ePac Holdings, Windell McGill, and F&S Capital, a Tulsa, Okla.-based investment company.

Agfa Graphics has announced that it will be closing its 250,000-sq.-ft. offset printing plate manufacturing facility in Branchburg, N.J., by the end of this year in order to optimize its global production capacity and supply chain efficiencies. The plant closure will impact 125 workers.

Sara Dunn has joined NAPCO Media, packagePRINTING's parent company, as strategy and business development manager of the Packaging and Printing brands. She most recently served as managing director of the Packaging School.

Sun Chemical has announced that Myron Petruch will be its new president and CEO. Petruch will officially begin in this capacity on Jan. 1, 2019, succeeding Rudi Lenz, who will transition to the role of Sun Chemical's vice chairman of the board.

For more than 140 years, Smyth Companies has been a pioneer in labels and packaging, tackling new technologies and exploring ways to serve its customers.

Koenig & Bauer is strengthening its position and focus to target the globally increasing demand for all types of offset printed labels. As part of this refocus, Koenig & Bauer's research and development team is working to produce critical press features for this growing market.