Arpeco Engineering

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario—Arpeco®, a Precision Automation® Company, has appointed the ITC Group as exclusive distributor of Arpeco products in The Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macao. “With head offices located in Guangzhou and satellite offices throughout the rest of the country, the ITC Group is well suited to handle the needs of the ever-growing label and package-printing industry in China,” said Arpeco Sales and Marketing Manager Brian Ivens. “Chinese printers are already very sophisticated and are looking for quality control and finishing equipment which suits the upcoming market requirements. The Arpeco Tracker, Premier and Platform models suit those requirements very well,” said ITC

Boy, there’s a lot to inspection! In-line versus off-line, rewind versus press-mounted, the human eye versus video—these are only a few, but critical, considerations. There are various inspection systems on the market, some for use on the press, and some for use on the rewinder as the web is rewound. Each inspection system is designed to take certain actions when it detects a defect in the printed product. These defects can range from registration to incorrect characters. In addition, with brand protection emerging as a growing market niche, the ability to inspect microprinting and other security markings not visible to the naked eye is

CHERRY HILL, N.J. and MONTREAL, Cananda—Arpeco A Precision Automation Company of Cherry Hill, N.J. and PAT Technologies of Montreal have formed a strategic alliance that will enable Arpeco to offer the Rotoworx line of expandable and reconfigurable modular diecutting and converting systems. Arpeco and Rotoworx will deliver solutions for the expanding digital print, post-press, re-register diecutting marketplace as well as the ever-emerging converting and narrow-web label and packaging industry. Each module of any machine can be configured to run any finishing operation in semi-rotary or rotary mode. This reconfigurability allows the use of one module to perform different finishing operations and thus allowing complete