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Packaging printer business and personnel news, including YORK Label, American Packaging, Hammer Packaging and Spear.

Lightning Labels puts all its efforts into the printing of pressure-sensitive labels for the short-run label market, operating from one facility in Denver with 24 employees.

With a career dedicated to the tag and label industry, Dave McDowell, chairman of McDowell Label and Screen Printing, is honored as packagePRINTING's 2009 TLMI Converter of the Year.

Once Traco combined digital technology with its tried-and-true motto of "promise only what you can deliver, and deliver what you've promised," Traco was well on its way to success with short runs, building on the trust it had already established between the market and the company's sales staff.

SHARONVILLE, Ohio—Multi-Color Corporation announced that Nigel A. Vinecombe has been appointed chief operating officer, effective immediately. Vinecombe, 45, became President of the International Business Unit and a Director of Multi-Color in February 2008 at the time the company acquired Collotype International Holdings Pty Ltd. From 2000 to 2008, he served as Group Managing Director of Collotype Labels.

SLAGELSE, Denmark—Nilpeter A/S, a leading manufacturer of narrow-web label and packaging presses, has formed Nilpeter Middle East. The decision was formally announced at the recent Gulf Print Dubai 2009. Shyam Babu, managing director, said the new company has already attracted several strong sales leads for Nilpeter’s FB-Line of UV-flexo presses and the MO-Line of offset combination presses.

LONDON—Baker Self Adhesive Materials has been appointed as a preferred distributor of 3M self-adhesive label materials in the United Kingdom.

NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) will be holding its ninth technical conference at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago September 8-10, 2009. The theme of this year’s technical conference is "Get Smart", a forum focusing on the day-to-day issues narrow web printers and converters are facing in the current marketplace. Attendees will receive production ideas and management solutions from industry experts that they can take back to their businesses and implement immediately.

The Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) has released a Position Statement on The Employee Free Choice Act (also known as “Card Check”).

The Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) Position Statement on The Employee Free Choice Act (also known as “Card Check”)