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At Labelexpo Americas 2012, a steady parade of show attendees were treated to a wide array of new products and technology demonstrations. A major highlight of the show, the Label Industry Global Awards 2012, took place on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Steve Lee, vice president of technology at RotoMetrics, was honored with the prestigious R Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award.

SADDLE BROOK, N.J.—While LED inspection lights carry a higher initial cost than the strobe lights with Xenon lamps, they do not have the same replacement costs and can operate effectively even if some of the lamps burn out.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including Masterpiece Graphix, Bobst, Radius Solutions, Flint and more.

Company: Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), www.avt-inc.com Product: The PrintVision/Orion What is it?: A 100-percent automatic inspection system and quality assurance for folding carton single pack applications. Features: • Inspects quality with a Linear CCD camera • Detects diecut and creasing faults and will eject defective blanks while collecting and stacking good ones • Can handle blanks of up to 17˝ at speeds up to 40,000 blanks per hour Company: Rotoflex International, www.rotoflex.com Product: VLI eDRIVE series What is it?: Inspection slitter/rewinders designed for consistency, low maintenance, lower tension, higher speeds, and easy job setup/operation. Features: • AC Vector Motor

SADDLE BROOK, N.J.—With the large flexible package and narrow-web printers driving demand in India, Unilux, a designer and manufacturer of stroboscopic inspection systems, has opened a sales and service office in New Delhi. Ashwani Kumar has joined Unilux as sales manager, India to open the new office. He will provide sales, marketing, and basic technical sales support to solidify Unilux’s rapidly strengthening presence in the country’s printing and converting industries. “We’re still quite new in the printing and converting industries in India, but Unilux inspection system sales in the country have doubled every year for the past three years,” said Mike Simonis, president, Unilux.

SADDLE BROOK, N.J.—With the large flexible package and narrow-web printers driving demand in India, Unilux, the world?s leading designer and manufacturer of stroboscopic inspection systems, has opened a sales and service office in New Delhi. Ashwani Kumar has joined Unilux as sales manager - India to open the new office. He will provide sales, marketing and basic technical sales support to solidify Unilux’s rapidly strengthening presence in the country’s printing and converting industries. “We’re still quite new in the printing and converting industries in India, but Unilux inspection system sales in the country have doubled every year for the past three years,” said Mike

SHANGHAI, China—Unilux, the a world-leading designer and manufacturer of stroboscopicsurface inspection systems, has named Joe Zhao sales manager for China. Based in Shanghai, he will lead Unilux’s push into an increasingly sophisticated Chinese printing industry. “Joe gives us a new dimension in the Chinese printing market,” said Mike Simonis, president of Unilux, Inc. “With his sales, marketing and technical service background, he will be able to demonstrate our inspection systems and work with printing plant owners and production managers to determine the best Unilux strobe light and location for their specific needs. Together with Frank Fang, our service manager who services all Unilux equipment

As always, companies exhibiting at CMM International 2005 put on a display of impressive new products and technologies for converters and package printers. A SUCCESSFUL TRADE show is always measured on an individual basis—foot traffic, promising leads, or signed contracts. While attendees weren't exactly carried down the aisles in a swell of people, CMM International 2005 still offered a wide array of new products and technologies from the exhibiting companies. The following is a small sampling of what CMM International had to offer. Company news Enercon and Ciba Specialty Chemicals announced a joint development agreement which will combine Enercon's surface modification Plasma3™ technology

AAA PRESS INT'L Digital and analog video inspection systems. Write 735, Visit www.aaapress.com, AccuWeb Web Width Monitor System makes width measurements for both acquisition and process control. It uses no moving parts and can detect almost any web material. Write 736, www.accuweb.com Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) Offers process control and 100 percent quality assurance solutions on-press or on-rewinder, including register and pressure control solutions, inline color management, barcode verification solutions and job quality data management. Write 737, www.avt-inc.com BST PRO MARK Premius Digital system provides automatic inspection and identification of print defects and color variations, register control on flexo CI presses, and

As evidenced by these application examples, package printers have put web inspection systems to work for a broad spectrum of reasons, from meeting customer or end-use requirements, to establishing a general competitive advantage, to achieving process efficiencies. See for yourself. By Susan Friedman, Editor Fast-forward for flexpack quality A general push toward quality assurance has taken hold in the flexible packaging segment, reports Koby Shtaierman, vice president, marketing and sales for AVT. He hears more printer requests to see the web at all times, to provide process control and quality assurance for big-name brands such as Frito Lay and Coca Cola. Flexible