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Rochester, NY—Diamond Packaging won its first ever Benny Award in the 62nd annual Premier Print Awards competition, the graphic arts industry’s largest and most prestigious worldwide printing competition. Printing Industries of America (PIA) hosts the Premier Print Awards, which recognizes the creation and production of superior print communications. The event promotes excellence in printing and rewards companies and individuals who produce the very best in print media. Of the more than 3,200 entries received, Diamond’s entries were chosen for exemplifying

The 9th edition of Luxe Pack New York, the luxury packaging trade exhibition held May 18-19 at The Altman Building and Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan, once again drew record-breaking attendance with 2,370 visitors, an increase of 11% over 2010. The two-day event spotlighted 131 international exhibitors and featured a number of educational seminars. Exhibitors and attendees alike expressed satisfaction with the continued quality of the boutique-like show. For the first time, Luxe Pack implemented three specific tracks—Beauty, Wine & Sprits,

CHARLOTTE, NC, USA -- Representatives from the Print & Web Processing Team of Tesa tape, inc., an affiliate of Tesa SE, a global leader in the manufacture and supply of pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes, are pleased to introduce three new products for the flexographic printing industry. This new product family - Tesa Softprint® FE - is a new-generation of plate mounting tapes designed for mounting printing plates onto print cylinders and sleeves for flexographic printing applications. The development of the Tesa Softprint® FE Family (Fast Mounting & Easy Demounting) was based on months of field research to determine specific needs

KBA North America announces that Allpak/Trojan, an award-winning printing and packaging company located in Seattle, installed a 56˝ KBA Rapida 142 six-color plus coater sheetfed press in early 2011. This new KBA press complements an existing KBA Rapida 142 56˝ eight-color sheetfed press with coater and hybrid UV capabilities operating with the KBA Qualitronic II inline sheet inspection system installed in July 2005. “Growth from our existing large-format work had developed to the point where a second press was required,” said Wayne Millage, president of Allpak/Trojan. “After reviewing our product mix, we decided that a six-color plus coater would

SOURCE Prolamina Corporation LAKE FOREST, Ill., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Prolamina Corporation ("Prolamina" or the "Company") announced today that it has signed a definitive acquisition agreement to acquire certain assets and a defined book of business from Packaging Dynamics Corporation ("Packaging Dynamics") located in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition will encompass Packaging Dynamics' extrusion laminating, 10-color printing and converting business in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. The additional customers and equipment will support Prolamina's focus on the food and medical packaging markets and its growing business pipeline. � In particular, it will allow Prolamina

Trebnick Systems, a flexo printer based in Springboro, Ohio, USA, recently installed an automatic splicer from Martin Automatic. The MBSF butt splicer was put into service on a Mark Andy P-7 flexographic press running supported and unsupported film and other products. Gregg Trebnick reports that the splicer has reduced the company’s material waste in several ways. ‘Before the Martin, we’d lose at least 300 feet of web at a manual splice getting back into register; the non-stop splice doesn’t affect auto registration at all,’ he said. ‘In terms of core waste, with the Martin, we’re able to run down

While Sunday is a day of rest, it also was a red-letter day for the PaperWorks mill in Wabash, Ind. The plant logged its one millionth consecutive hour without an accident on July 31. “This is a very rare and impressive accomplishment for not only our industry, but any industry,” said Joe Atkinson, director of safety at PaperWorks. “Setting this kind of safety record in two years is nothing short of amazing.” Atkinson was the initiator of a company-wide safety program that was implemented across the company’s mills in 2009, and has since begun being instituted in its other

NEENAH — Bemis Co. on Monday announced it has acquired Mayor Packaging, a privately owned manufacturer of consumer and specialty flexible packaging in China. Financial terms of the transaction, which includes a manufacturing facility in Dongguan, China, were not disclosed. "This acquisition supports our strategy to enhance our presence in the Asia-Pacific region," Henry Theisen, Bemis president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. "The high barrier, flexible packaging operation in Dongguan is a state-of-the-art facility that serves food and consumer product companies around the world." Neenah-based Bemis produces flexible packaging and pressure sensitive label materials. , employing

Printing Industries of America has released more information about the eight technologies recently selected to receive a 2011 InterTech™ Technology Award. The independent panel of judges deliberated over technology nominations ranging from plates and digital presses to a variety of production and management software. Great strides in technology were demonstrated in packaging software, inkjet printing, workflow automation, offset press efficiency, UV curing, and variable-data printing. Technologies were selected from those nominated for a variety of reasons, but the judges felt they all met the award criteria of being truly innovative and expected

To accommodate its customers who are placing a priority on improving the sustainability of their prepress process, Flint Group Flexographic Products is rolling out a new program to provide a plate waste recovery service to its flexographic printing plate customers in the continental United States. The service is simple and easy to use. Cubic yard corrugated containers are provided to the customer. As plate waste is accumulated, raw plates, coversheets, and used printing plates with or without mounting tape affixed are placed in these containers. When the containers are full, the customer simply calls a toll free number, and