Muller Martini

Packaging equipment, software and service purchases by U.S. packaging printers, featuring Proteus Packaging and Keller Crescent.

Pharmaceutical printer and converter, Keller Crescent, installed an ECP splicer from Martin Automatic at its Greensboro, N.C., location.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including ROTOCONTROL, MLP USA, Fujifilm, Smufit-Stone, EskoArtwork and more.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.—Muller Martini has acquired patents for the VSOP (variable sleeve offset press) technology from Drent Goebel. A new Muller Martini VSOP series, offering flexible packaging and cardboard printing, will be launched by the end of 2009.

MGI USA, a manufacturer of multi-substrate (paper and plastic) digital press and finishing solutions, announced that they have added six new dealers to its U.S. network within recent months.

Commercial printers are moving into the world of packaging. Not all of them, but enough that it’s been getting a lot of attention over the past several years. Many times, the first approach is to print packaging items for existing clients that use paperboard materials—substrates commercial printers use routinely and are familiar with. In addition, they are up-to-speed on required colors and the demands placed on them by existing clients. Other package printing segments, such as traditional product labeling and printing of flexible packaging materials, would be much further down the pike—if in the business plan at all. From a business-strategy standpoint, commercial

HAUPPAUGE, New York—For the third year in a row, Muller Martini Corp. of Hauppauge, Long Island teamed with the U.S. Marines Corps to gather toys to donate to the “Toys for Tots” program during the months of October, November, and December. “We consider it a privilege to take part in the Toys for Tots program, serving our community as a company and as individuals, helping to make the holiday season more enjoyable for children,” said Werner Naegeli, President and CEO of Muller Martini Corp. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a shiny new toy, a message of hope to

PRINT 05 & CONVERTING 05 drew an international audience to the Windy City for a week of new technology demonstrations. THE STATISTICS ARE in from the Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC). PRINT 05 & CONVERTING 05, held last month in Chicago, was a big success by many of the reported metrics. Attendance was in the neighborhood of 62,000. The number of exhibitors, 954, was up from the 893 at the last PRINT show in 2001. The international flavor of the show was demonstrated by the more than 7,200 international attendees from 99 countries, up from 75 in 2001. Clearly, the show had the

Check below for this *Web exclusive* listing of companies supplying such corollary press accessories as temperature control systems, cleaning solutions and equipment, replacement knives, and grinders: AAA Press International Web cleaners, corona treaters, auxiliary dryers, print stations, roll handling devices, tension controls, strobes, slitter assemblies, static neutralizers, rewind tables, platemounters, etc. Visit www.aaapress.com Adheso-Graphics Manufactures and distributes pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes—sticky back, transfer, and D/C—to the printing industry. Visit www.adheso-graphics.com Alliance Knife Straight and circular machine knives for paper converting, graphic arts, business forms, pulp and paper, plastic, rubber, metalworking, and woodworking. Andantex USA Your complete source for high-precision motion control

Adheso Graphics Manufactures and distributes pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes—sticky back, transfer, and D/C—to the printing industry. Visit www.adheso-graphics.com Alliance Knife Straight and circular machine knives for paper converting, graphic arts, business forms, pulp and paper, plastic, rubber, metalworking, and woodworking. Autogrind Complete range of grinders for in-house sharpening of all types of circular knives and perf wheels. Automatän The Automatän Inkontrol (TM) systems automatically check, monitor, and adjust flexo ink pH and viscosity through print runs to ensure that correct pH and viscosity are being maintained. Windows-based for maximum versatility. Visit www.automatan.com AWS Div., Grafix North America Supplies process cooling and temperature