Business Management - Operations

With its enhanced information management system, extensive equipment list, experienced staff, and forward-thinking attitude, Deluxe Packages in Yuba City, Calif., now has the information, knowledge, and power to excel for its customers.

Clayton, N.C.-based 3C Packaging has logged a performance record worthy of the exclamation point that graces the company's logo. Specifically, the converting company, which also produces printed literature inserts and unit dose compliant packages, recently reported 20 percent growth during the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

The origins of what is now Menasha Packaging Company, with 1,800 employees and more than 20 facilities in North America, have nothing to do with printing.

Global Packaging, with facilities in Oaks, Pa. and Ambler, Pa., is a full-service, wide-web flexographic printer providing consumer products packaging to companies across North America.

American Packaging Corp., based in Rochester, N.Y., is a flexible packaging converter specializing in flexographic and rotogravure printing and multi-ply extrusion, co-extrusion, and adhesive laminations of film, paper, and foil.

HERLEV, Denmark—Gerhardt International A/S, a supplier of rotary converting tools, and RR Rotary A/S, a supplier of solid rotary dies mainly for the packaging, hygiene, and medical markets, have merged their European production facilities of solid rotary dies.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.—Muller Martini has acquired patents for the VSOP (variable sleeve offset press) technology from Drent Goebel. A new Muller Martini VSOP series, offering flexible packaging and cardboard printing, will be launched by the end of 2009.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Océ North America has joined the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) as an associate member.

BURNSVILLE, Minn.—Stand-up Pouches 2009-2012 is a global study of the stand-up pouch industry. It provides an up-to-date assessment of the stand-up pouch market including market drivers, consumption volumes, market trends, and competitive products. It also provides a quantitative forecast through 2012.

LINTHICUM, Md.-The Flexible Packaging Association will hold its 2009 Fall Executive Conference on September 24 at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago. The single-day conference combines industry-focused educational programs with networking opportunities.