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News on printers in the packaging printing industry, including Fort Dearborn Company, Multi-Color Corporation and Spear.

News on printers in the packaging printing industry, including Wausau Container, CCL Industries Inc., Diamond Packaging and Menasha Packaging Company.

Digital printing and workflow implementations by package printers, including items on Ben Franklin Press, Huston Patterson and EFI.

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DECATUR, Ill.—Huston Patterson Corporation recently earned the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), and Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) chain-of-custody certifications.

DECATUR, Ill.—Huston Patterson Corp., a Decatur-based large-format package printer, was recently honored by the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) and Board Converting News as the 2007 “Innovator of the Year.” The award was given during the AICC’s annual meeting—held in Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 10-12—in recognition of Huston Patterson’s unique employee, client and vendor training program, the HPx Academy. “This was the first year that AICC ‘Innovator of the Year’ competition solicited entries in the Information Technologies and Training area,” said Steven Young, president of AICC. “Training is vital to our industry and efforts like Huston Patterson’s is what it will take to be

DECATUR, Ill.—Huston Patterson Corp., Decatur, Ill., has purchased two new KBA six-color and coat presses, which will substantially increase the company’s capacity to provide full-service, large-format printing. The new 56-inch, six-color, aqueous coat press will be located in Decatur, and the new 40-inch, six-color, UV or aqueous coat press will be at Sigma Graphics in Ottawa, Ill. The 40 inch press will be operational yet this year and the 56 inch within the first quarter of 2008. “Clients tell us they truly like the idea of us having redundant capabilities within our equipment. This will improve the comfort level and back-up capabilities. We will