Business Management - Operations

Weidmüller USA, a provider of smart industrial connectivity products and solutions headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, broke ground on a new engineering, production, and warehouse facility at its current Southlake location in Chesterfield County.

Safety, Quality, Productivity: the three key pillars that Inland Packaging, one of the U.S.’s largest privately owned label & packaging printers, has built its success upon since 1944. Inland has long trusted in its partnership with HEIDELBERG. Inland's most recent investment? A Speedmaster XL 106-8+L

Sealed Air Corporation (SEE) and Koenig & Bauer have signed a non-binding letter of intent to expand a strategic partnership for digital printing machines. The partnership aims to significantly improve packaging design capabilities by developing state-of-the-art digital printing technology, equipment, and services.

The investment will fund developments including the transition to automated production processes and increased production capacity.

Following market validation in Europe, Asia, and Canada, XSYS brings ThermoFlexX Catena-E to the U.S. — increasing the availability of the exposure technology's benefits of precise image reproduction and high reproductivity in flexo platemaking to more label and package converters and printers.

Hummingbird digital print solutions, a division of Georgia-Pacific, announced that its suburban Phoenix, Arizona, facility earned an AA rating in an announced BRCGS Global Food Safety Standard audit.

A leader in retail packaging, Sutherland Packaging has expanded its digital print capabilities with the world’s second HP Pagewide C550 Digital Press. The newest generation of HP’s single-pass digital press is reported to deliver offset-quality printing at speeds comparable to conventional presses.

As early adopters of digital printing, SCT has incorporated a rapid-response model in its Mansfield, Texas, location, including an investment in an SEI Laser Paperone 7000 laser system for B1 sheet material.

Eaglewood Technologies announced a partnership with Nanovis, a manufacturer of sustainable parts cleaning systems. Nanovis has a line of sustainable parts washing systems for narrow-web flexo press parts and for HP Indigo digital presses.

For this edition of Fierce Females in Package Printing, Packaging Impressions spoke with Michelle Garza, VP of operations at Dantex Group, who shared insights on the value of authenticity, overcoming the preconceptions of others, and using inclusivity to attract the best candidates to printing industry roles.