Siegwerk

WEST CHESTER, Ohio—UF 3 Series flexographic inks—manufactured by Environmental Inks, a member of the Siegwerk group—have been certified for use with the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System.

Flint Group announced that Daniel F. McDowell has been appointed as president of the global Packaging & Narrow Web division.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including Anderson & Vreeland, Flint Group, Agfa Graphics, Davis-Standard, Heidelberg USA, and Schawk, Inc.

Siegwerk has finalized the acquisition of U.S.-based Environmental Inks and Coatings Corporation (EIC) on November 30. EIC is one of the largest ink suppliers to the narrow-web label market in the U.S. and Canada.

Flexographic printing performance, efficiency, quality, and sustainability continue to improve, says Flexo4All.During the past 30 years, flexography has been demonstrated to be a printing technology with a very impressive growth in terms of quality and productivity. It passed from low- to high-quality printing and today is widely used for packaging production in different applications: flexible…

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Ed Dedman, a flexo-industry veteran of more than 30 years, has formed a new company, ProtoPrint Technologies, to focus on representing and developing new ink, coating, and print technologies for the flexographic industry.

State-of-the-art and future technologies for packaging printing, including Blue Spark Technologies' printed battery, LED UV and white ink proofing.

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland—The LED-UV drying system for narrow-web rotary presses  to be unveiled to a specialist audience at Labelexpo 2009. The system boasts up to 60 percent lower energy consumption and emits no ozone or UVA or UVB radiation.

Round up of the latest offerings in UV inks and coatings for enhancing durability and high-end graphics.

PHILADELPHIA—A gathering of major equipment and materials companies that are leading development efforts for sustainable packaging for food and consumer products will take place in conjunction with Earth Day 2009 celebrations, Wednesday, April 22. Hosting the daylong converting demonstrations for North American packaging converters and product marketers are specialty materials company Rohm and Haas, along with Nordmeccanica NA, a manufacturer of coating and laminating equipment. Demonstrations will take place at Nordmeccanica’s Long Island facility.