Mark Andy

This new division of Mark Andy, called Mark Andy Print Products provides a broad offering of a variety of flexo and offset items including prepress, pressroom and post-press supplies.

Rex Lane recalls that when he first joined label and package converter WS Packaging Group as CEO in 2010, he was known in professional circles as "that guy they hired from outside the industry." And Lane is emphatic that the fresh eyes of a newcomer can be the key to effecting far-reaching improvements in operational efficiency.

Burnishine Products are now available from Mark Andy Print Products. The consumables distribution arm of Presstek, a longtime valued Burnishine distributor, was recently acquired by Mark Andy, making Burnishine products more widely available than ever.

The R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Avery Dennison, recognizes the values and vision of Stan Avery and his pioneering efforts. The recipient of the 2013 award was Tomas Rink, president Ritrama Group.

Set to be the largest in the show’s 33 year history, Labelexpo Europe 2013 returns to Belgium between September 24-27. "There is nowhere better to see the latest product launches, compare technologies, network and do business," said Lisa Milburn, managing director of the Labelexpo Global Series.

GMG, Berry Plastics and Mark Andy took top honors at the Flexographic Technical Association's 2013 Technical Innovation Awards ceremony. GMG placed top in the prepress-graphics category, while Berry Plastics and Mark Andy were the honorees in the heavy machinery classification.

After a successful event in March at Mark Andy, the 2013 Harper SMART Roadshow continues at Central Peidmont Community College. The Charlotte, NC, stop will be co-hosted with Bobst and will provide participants with valuable insight regarding the flexographic industry's leading products and services.

Digital might be jockeying to become the industry's signature printing entrée, but it's clear that in many operations, there is still plenty of room on the table for flexo. At Atlanta-based narrow-web converter GENflex Labeling Solutions, for instance, a print process buffet of sorts is offered, in which both flexo and digital are billed as of vital importance to meeting customer needs.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on World Top Brewery and Color-Logic; Label Technology and Label Technology; Bunting Magnetics Co.; iSys Label; Grafix Equipment; Harper Corporation of America; and Louis Oscar Werneke, founder of Werneke Ink.

Label Technology's new MBSF butt splicer matches the high productivity specifications of the 10-unit, 26-inch digital servo drive press, unwinding and splicing paper and unsupported films, including 48g PET, at speeds to 750 fpm.