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BRUSSELS, Belgium—A panel of label industry experts has reviewed the votes for the Label Industry Global Awards and announced the winner of the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement category. Andrew Jack from Dow Corning was selected as the overall winner by the international label industry judging panel at the FINAT World Congress in Berlin following a review of the online votes against the Awards criteria. This prestigious Award category is sponsored by Avery Dennison in the year which marks the 100th year since the birth of Stan Avery. Andrew Jack has a career spanning over thirty-five years in the silicone industry, firstly with Midland

BRYAN, Ohio—Stork Prints, a manufacturer of direct laser engraving systems, has appointed Anderson & Vreeland, Inc. as its distributor in the United States, effective immediately. Stork Prints offers a complete range of direct laser engraving systems including the Helios 6010, a system that digitally engraves flexo, dry offset, and letterpress plates and sleeves in a single system. Howard Vreeland, Jr., COO of A&V, noted, “With Stork, we now have the world’s most advanced, high-quality direct laser engraving systems to offer our customers. These systems complement our extensive line of platemaking equipment to create the broadest, most advanced selection of flexo plate processing equipment.” Anderson

CHARLOTTE, N.C.— HS Crocker Co. Inc, the Huntley, Illinois (USA)-based supplier of self-adhesive labels, flexible packaging and cartons, has signed a deal to install Stork Prints’ multi-process Helios 6010 engraver, for highly productive imaging of letterpress plates at Crocker’s pharmaceutical label converting operation in Pennsylvania. Gene Proffit, managing director at Stork Prints America, comments, “The direct laser engraving systems will completely transform the pre-production workflow, with printing forms being engraved on an on-demand basis. The greater flexibility, reduced running costs, and improved printing quality offered by these systems will be a major strategic benefit to HS Crocker, strengthening their competitiveness in North America’s high-end

BOXMEER, Netherlands, and WITZHAVE, Germany—RAKO Etiketten of Witzhave, Germany, announced an increase in productivity and cost savings since it started using Stork Prints’ reusable nickel RotaPlate screen on its presses. The company switched from stainless steel woven meshes to the new RotaPlate screen early in 2006. The German company has been able to boost printing speeds for rotary screen printing jobs on its new Gallus presses by as much as 20 percent, to about 50 meters per minute. Furthermore, it has reported a greatly increased lifespan—with most screens having no problem in running in excess of 50,000 web-metres. The RotaPlate screen is based

BRUSSELS, Belgium—The fourth Label Industry Global Awards will take place on the first evening of Labelexpo Europe 2007 on Wednesday, September, 26 in Brussels. The international judging panel have shorlisted a number of nominees. The industry now has the opportunity to vote for their own selected individual nominees at www.labelawards.com until the end May. The Awards feature four categories which recognize achievement in various areas of the label industry. The nominations are as follows: R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award: • Angelo Bartesaghi, Omet Srl. • Joseph Weber, Jnr, Weber Marking Systems • Tom Rink, Ritrama S.p.A • Jaume Puigbó, Caposa Group

The screen printing process adds "feeling" to package printing. SCREEN PRINTING IS becoming synonymous with quality in package printing. Increasing the visual appeal of a package is something all brand owners strive for and screen printing helps in a way that very few other processes or substrates can. With the ability to lay down up to 300 µm of ink in one pass, said John Costenoble, sales manager, Graphic Print Systems, Stork Prints America, Inc., comes the means to explore more creative avenues and the ability to increase the attraction to and perceived value of brand owners' products. "Rotary screen printing is becoming increasingly

WITH WINTER WEATHER firmly in place, warmth is something that is on everyone's mind. Here's something that is sure to add some heat to 2004. packagePrinting has put together a collection of the hot products of 2004. In categories including prepress, presses, press accessories, substrates, and inks/adhesives, converters can get a glimpse of the latest package-printing products. Prepress Creo Creo's HyperFlex™ screening is new technology aiding in the formation of smaller dots on a photopolymer flexo plate. It provides a thicker foundation of photopolymer material that allows a smaller minimum dot size to be formed and held throughout the print process. DuPont