CPP EXPO - The Cleveland Show, taking place April 18-19, 2012 at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is CPP EXPO’s inaugural regional event and will lead to the major machinery event to be held in Chicago/Rosemont April 23-25, 2013.
News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on AB Graphic International and UV supplier GEW, RotoMetrics and Avery Dennison, Toray Plastics (America) and its new Matte BOPP Film, acpo, Comexi, EFI, SGS International, and Hewlett-Packard.
CPP EXPO Show Management announced that Bobst Group USA, Mark Andy, Goss International, and North American Cerutti will anchor the package-printing portion of CPP EXPO - The Cleveland Show, taking place April 18-19, 2012 at the I-X Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
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.
The Mark Andy P3 was awarded the technical innovation prize at the 2011 FlexoTech Awards held on October 19 in London, England. This is the second innovation award for the Mark Andy Performance Series press line in 2011, while more than 110 of the machines have been sold in 24 countries since its launch. ‘Mark Andy is honored to have been recognized with this highly regarded industry award,’ said Greg Palm, vice president of sales and marketing for Mark Andy. ‘Our engineering, design and manufacturing teams worked together with converters worldwide to develop a pivotal product for the flexo
The North American FTA put ‘Color in Focus’ before an audience of nearly 300 flexographers during its recent annual Fall Conference. The assembly consisted largely of printers; but suppliers, pre-press technicians, consumer product companies, teachers and students were also represented as well. Co-chaired by Mark Mazur of DuPont Packaging Graphics and Dan Collins of Berry Plastics, the event took place in St Louis, Missouri, where 14 speakers and 34 conference exhibitors were present. The speakers were Mark Mazur, DuPont Packaging Graphics; Richard Black, All Printing Resources; Mark Samworth, EskoArtwork; Steve Upton, Chromix; Roy Bohnen, Epson America; Robb Frimming, Schawk
Mark Andy is the first in-line flexo press manufacturer to receive full HD Flexo certification from EskoArtwork. The announcement was made at Labelexpo Europe. To achieve certification, presses are print tested and qualified to ensure that the HD Flexo process is adhered to with a high level of repeatability.
TLMI announced the availability of a mobile phone application as a free download for the TLMI Technical Conference being held in Chicago September 6-8.
Trebnick Systems, a specialty-products flexographic printer in Springboro, Ohio, recently installed an automatic splicer from Martin Automatic.
Trebnick Systems, a flexo printer based in Springboro, Ohio, USA, recently installed an automatic splicer from Martin Automatic. The MBSF butt splicer was put into service on a Mark Andy P-7 flexographic press running supported and unsupported film and other products. Gregg Trebnick reports that the splicer has reduced the company’s material waste in several ways. ‘Before the Martin, we’d lose at least 300 feet of web at a manual splice getting back into register; the non-stop splice doesn’t affect auto registration at all,’ he said. ‘In terms of core waste, with the Martin, we’re able to run down
