packagePRINTING – February 2011
Coast to Coast February 2011
Packaging equipment installations and purchases by U.S. printing companies, featuring DuPont Packaging Graphics, Epson America, Luminer Converting Group, Valdese Packaging & Label, KBA North America, and Flexo Wash LLC.
Diecutting: Window of Opportunity
One of the keys to long-lasting success in any manufacturing business is the ability to recognize the changing needs of the market early enough to acquire the shop-floor equipment to address the needs of clients, and one might say that "evolve or perish" theme is the unofficial mantra adhered to by Printed Specialties Inc.
Digital Domain February 2011
Digital printing technology, software, label presses and web converting equipment, featuring MACtac, Color-Logic, HP Indigo, Xeikon, and GraphixOne.
Expanding Optimism
For some end users, shrink sleeve label production has become the stuff of "nightmare stories," says Jim Dwyer, president and CEO of The R.B. Dwyer Group, an Anaheim, Calif.-based manufacturer and distributor of tamper-evident bands and shrink sleeves.
Green Go-Getters
Customers of Southeastern Printing have a unique opportunity to experience today what could be the future of eco-friendly label manufacturing across the board. The Stuart, Fla.-headquartered producer of film-based roll-fed, in-mold, and cut-and-stack beverage labels has so completely integrated "green" practices into its manufacturing processes, its customers can't help but come away with a finished product that has a reduced impact on the environment.
M&A All the Way
If merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is an indication of the state of the economic environment, then we have one more indication that the economy is bouncing back. This issue contains news items on Repacorp's acquisition of Aladdin Label; PaperWorks Industries acquisition of Rosmar Packaging; Mid Oaks Investments purchase of Plastic Packaging Technologies.
Printer News February 2011
News on printers to the package printing industry, including Great Northern Corporation, Huston Patterson, Label Printing Industries of America, Precision Color Graphics, Repacorp, Inc. and Aladdin Label.
Supplier News
News on equipment, software and supplies vendors to the package printing industry, featuring EskoArtwork, Toray Plastics, Comexi Group, ACOM, Transilwrap Company, RockTenn and Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
Sustainability Watch February 2011
Sustainability in package printing news, featuring INX International Ink Co., EcoTech, ITW Labels, LogoTech, and RotoMetrics.
Track-And-Trace
Track-and-trace technology has developed enormously in the last few years. Even though bar codes have been around for nearly half a century, they play a key role today in supply chain management in many different ways—securing and documenting a variety of information from unique product identifier to production location, batch number, and expiration date. Bar codes are also the natural partners for today's product authentication technologies.
