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Packaging equipment, software and service purchases by U.S. packaging printers, featuring installations by Acucote, Accord Carton, Specialty Finishing and American Packaging Corp.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Avery Dennison and Gallus, AB Graphics, Montalvo upgrades for Mark Andy presses,  Multi-Plastics Extrusions' signing of the Hutchinson Miller Sales Company, Martin Automatic, TLMI and ALTANA.

manroland has been awarded the 2011 Harold W. Gegenheimer Corporate Award for Industry Service from NPES, the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. The award was presented to manroland’s North American CEO Vince Lapinski, in recognition of manroland’s industry leadership through participation in NPES and industry activities.

CHICAGO—Sept. 22, 2011—manroland Inc. is announcing that Accord Carton will become the second package printer in the world to install a next-generation seven-color Roland 907-6 press with coater. The installation is scheduled for completion in late February 2012. Robert Codo, president of Accord carton said regarding Accord’s success with their first 56" manroland press, “In the last five years, we've gone from $7 million to nearly $40 million in sales. There are still plenty of opportunities out there for us and we need this new machine to take us to the next level.” Codo said the installation of the

Starting in September and lasting until February 2012, around 60 drupa events will take place in more than 40 countries.

McCormick Place, Chicago- As soon as visitors to manroland's Print Technology Center have had a chance to see the Roland 700 HiPrint High Speed press in operation at a blinding 18,000 sheets per hour, it will be shipped to Stephenson Printing (Alexandria, VA) to upgrade the versatile printer's sheetfed printing operations. George Stephenson, President of Stephenson Printing said, "While the high printing speed is nice to have, we really bought the ROLAND 700 HiPrint HS press because it has all the latest integrated technologies that support fast makereadies. This will allow us to print 500 or 15,000 copies or

Zumbiel Packaging has installed a 56-inch ROLAND 907-6 press with an aqueous anilox coater at its expanded Consumer Packaging Division facility in Hebron, Ky.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on the 2011 InterTech Technology Awards, Toyo Ink America, Heidelberg, Xerox Corporation, Harper Corp., EFI and ICE USA.

August marks the 150th anniversary of German press manufacturer KBA’s Frankenthal production plant. The citizens of Frankenthal – and gravure printers the world over – still often refer to the company as Albert, even though this name was dropped in 1995. Common roots in Oberzell Founder Andreas Albert qualified as a master craftsman under Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer – the inventors of the steam-powered cylinder printing press and founders of the world’s oldest press manufacturer –

CHICAGO, IL— “Digital Meets Offset Power” is the theme of manroland’s exhibit at GraphExpo 2011. It focuses on technology, automation, and manroland’s ability to integrate a broad range of offset printing equipment and related technologies into customizable workflows that meet specific customer needs. Vince Lapinski, CEO of manroland North America, said, “Digitally integrated printing techonlogies are the wave of the future. We are pleased to demonstrate these advanced integrated solutions that allow our customers to improve capacity and productivity, reduce operating costs and minimize the total cost of consumables. This could be our best Graph Expo yet.” Sheetfed