Business Management - Operations

PALO ALTO, Calif.—HP announced that St. Hart Container, one of Southern California’s largest manufacturers of custom corrugated packaging, has installed the HP Scitex FB6700 Printer. “The new high-quality flatbed printer provides leading-edge short-run corrugated printing capabilities that are opening up new opportunities for the company.” For 35 years, Fullerton, Calif.-based St. Hart has provided a wide variety of packaging including POP displays, regular slotted boxes and specialty die cut boxes, to customers all over California, the Southwest and Mexico. In April, St. Hart added digital technology to its line-up of corrugated packaging machines to further expand the range of services and capabilities offered to

Every package printer strives to produce packaging of the highest quality for its customers. Aiding in that effort is today’s higher anilox roll line counts. Line counts upwards of 1,000 have given printers the ability to reach realms of quality impossible with older, lower cell count aniloxes. The only drawback to these higher counts is the delicate nature of the anilox cells, which can be easily damaged during cleaning. This is a conundrum printers need to consider and take seriously if they plan on reaping the full rewards attainable through these newer rolls. “Higher count anilox rolls, in response to the need for higher

More spot color with less cost and greater freedom The new Kodak Spotless Printing Solution Version 2.0 provides a wider spectrum of spot colors with greater flexibility for marketers and a more efficient production process for printers. Spotless software enables graphic communications providers to simulate spot colors with process inks, delivering the marketing and production value of spot colors without the spot color ink costs. The Spotless printing solution also does away with native file editing and eliminates the need for reformulation or proprietary inks. The next generation Spotless printing solution adds the ability to generate 5- and 7-color screen tint recipes in addition

HARTSVILLE, S.C.--Sonoco has opened a new Innovation Center in downtown Cincinnati, a facility dedicated to providing innovative packaging supply chain products and services for many of Procter & Gamble’s major brands. The Sonoco Innovation Center is located at 201 E. Fifth Street, Suite 1300, in the PNC Building. “This facility is a first of its kind in the packaging industry--where a packaging supplier has placed dedicated resources directly next to a key customer to provide technology, design, brand management, supply chain, marketing and sales services,” said Charles Sullivan, Sonoco’s executive vice president for the company’s consumer group of packaging and services businesses. “We understand that

BURLINGTON, Mass.--Julie Static Controls President Jim Patterson has announced the company name is changing to Static Clean International. “The name Static Clean International is a better representation of the direction the company is taking to meet the demands of the Cleanroom and Medical Device Markets. While the product line will still include all existing blowers, static bars, air knives, cleaning stations, web cleaners and other various static control components for General and Industrial Applications, it will develop new products not presently offered to address the increased demand for a cleaner product. For the customer it represents improved yields, which translates into increased profits. Recent

J DRENT GOEBEL Visit www.rdpmarathon.com Model Speed (fpm) Web Width (in.) Non Perfecting - LS Series with RDP SOLID™ Sleeve Insert Technology LS-68 1500 26 LS-85 1500 33 LS-100 1800 38 Non Perfecting LG-200 1500 20 LG-260 1500 26 LG-330 1500 33 LG-380 1800 38 LF-200 1200 20 LF-260 1200 26 Write 530 on Reader Service Form, See Ad p. 9 J GALLUS Visit www.gallus.org Model Web Width (in.) Max. Printing Area

Century Systems, Inc. Distributor of barcode printers, scanning equipment, thermal ribbons, labels and tags, printing accessories, and label design and printing software. Write 859, Visit www.century systems.com Degrava Systems The Degrava DP8500 was engineered with in-plant printers and converters in mind for an affordable, simple solution that provides a logical bridge between traditional presses and high-end digital systems. Features include automatic color registration, no complex maintenance or cleaning procedures, digital quality and flexibility, and more. Write 860, Visit www.degrava.com Jetrion Jetrion provides digital printing and inkjet expertise, with digital ink, hardware, and integrated solutions for digital printing. Write 861, Visit www.jetrion.com J KODAK The

It’s an understatement to say Ampac Packaging LLC has had a successful first nine years of business. The flexible packaging converter grew from an offshoot of another business entity into a company with three main operating units—Ampac Flexibles, Retail Products, and Security Products—and 11 manufacturing facilities with approximately 80 presses. Its workforce is 815 employees strong and the company grosses more than $200 million in annual sales. Ampac capitalized on a flourishing industry, specializing in serving the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, specialty retailers, and medical markets. Such a customer base has put the company in perfect position for further expansion, if market predictions are correct.

Tim Walker will host another LIVE blog event on www.convertingblog.com this Friday, March 3rd. Walker will answer any questions relating to the converting process as they are posted. To participate, visit www.convertingblog.com on March 3rd from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST.

The Web Handling Research Center studies the science and technology that drive web handling. WEB HANDLING IS a science every packaging printer or converter should understand. It's applied physics that carries a continuous-roll substrate through printing and/or converting machines with the goal being a defect-free end product. The Web Handling Research Center (WHRC), based at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla., has spent the last 20 years studying this science. The WHRC was initiated in 1986 as a National Science Foundation center with a mission "to advance the knowledge base in technologies applicable to the transport and control of continuous-strip materials through processes and