Consumables-Substrates - Paper

Technicote has appointed Tim Hare to the position of president. In this position, Hare will be responsible for establishing the company’s goals and objectives through strategic planning and leadership.

More than 50 TLMI members traveled to Tampa, Florida last week to map out priorities and discuss objectives for 2016 and into the future.

Label Impressions, a California-based label and flexible packaging printer, has expanded its manufacturing space and added two new Nilpeter presses to its operation, including a 17˝ FB-4200 servo press.

Fortis Solutions Group has acquired Smithfield Foods’ label printing plant, which provides pressure sensitive prime, promotional and thermal labels to a number of Smithfield Foods facilities, as well as third party customers.

Dion Label Printing, a label converter based in Westfield, Massachusetts, has installed a second servo converting press from MPS, providing greater capacity and diversity in its product offerings.

Gintzler International, a Buffalo, New York-based, packaging company, has purchased its third Gallus ECS 340 label printing press, two years after acquiring its second one.

After his appointment as president of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute was announced in November, Mark Tibbetts officially took office yesterday, becoming the fourth president in TLMI’s 82 years of existence.

Epsen Hillmer Graphics of Omaha, Nebraska, will add a Gallus ECS 340 label press in early 2016. Epsen Hillmer has been a Gallus customer since the mid-1970s.

NAStar, a manufacturer of pressure sensitive materials located in Middleton, Wisconsin, has announced the recent hire of Breonna Bleuel as marketing coordinator.

Gallus, Inc. and Prati Co. formed their strategic relationship in March 2014 and the two companies recently re-committed to their partnership at Labelexpo in Brussels.