Danaher announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with X-Rite under which Danaher will acquire X-Rite for $5.55 per share in cash, or approximately $625 million. X-Rite will operate as a standalone company within Danaher’s Product Identification group.
Sun Chemical will retire its SmartColour brand from the marketplace and will transfer all current customer licenses to the new PantoneLIVE eco-system from X-Rite/Pantone.
Shop-Vac Corp. has launched a new program for better color consistency that uses data supplied by color measurement instruments from X-Rite Inc.
News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on EskoArtwork, Kodak, RotoMetrics, Bobst Group, X-Rite, Anderson & Vreeland, Maxcess, Environmental Inks and Flint Group Flexographic Products.
X-Rite, Inc. is taking a new training program on the road this spring to ten U.S. cities and Canada that supplements the company’s popular Fundamentals of Color and Appearance (FOCA) by providing hands-on training on sample measurement, data collection, and reporting for quality control.
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
X-Rite, Inc. announced that its new i1Profiler software was selected as the profiling application of choice for HP Scitex wide- and super-wide format printers for signage and industrial applications, such as billboards, banners, street advertising, and packaging.
Collaboration between BST International and X-Rite is targeted to provide value-added capability to allow both inline spectral measurement systems and stationary handhelds to deliver comparable results.
X-Rite, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pantone, announced the fall tour dates for its “Fundamentals of Color and Appearance” (FOCA) and “Going Beyond Density” seminars.
CRI has invited industry leaders in the corrugated converting industry to its corporate headquarters in Fairfield, Ohio from Aug. 22 - 23 to exchange ideas about key issues, new technologies, and emerging trends at CRI’s Corrugated Technology Summit.
