Finishing - Conventional

Mauro Consalvi has joined Matik, Inc. and will be responsible for North American sales of OLBRICH coating/laminating products. Consalvi has more than 30 years of experience in the printing industry, ranging from product development and design to capital equipment sales and sales management.

Equipped with a series of automated setting functions, the BOBST MASTERFOLD 75/110 enables very short makeready times and supports non-stop production, able to produce up to 2.7 million perfectly executed boxes per day.

Advantage Corrugated & Packaging, a Hopkins, Minn.-based manufacturer and distributor of boxes, is continuing its expansion and growth with a third machine from Kolbus America in three years — an AutoBox AB 300.

ASL Print FX's Napa, Calif., facility has added a Prati Saturn TE450 slitter/rewinder. Totally flexible and based on the recently developed open-platform technology called Futura, the Saturn range of slitter/rewinders run at high speeds and offer maximum adaptability.

Nobelus LLC has announced that Steve Truan has been appointed as its new chief executive officer. Prior to becoming CEO, Truan worked in various functional areas such as research and development and supply chain, and held leadership roles in sales and marketing.

A new technical paper from Nordmeccanica, Dow, and Enercon discusses solventless laminating, and takes a holistic approach to the process for optimizing adhesion and productivity.

Rotoflex announced it grew sales and aftermarket approximately 30% over the previous year due to strategic management decisions involving increased R&D investments. Additionally, the company revealed it is moving to a new facility in Mississauga, Ontario.

Tom Fitzgerald has been promoted at Koenig & Bauer (US/CA) to the position of director of post-press products and has been appointed to the Board of Directors in the International Association of Diecutting and Diemaking for Director of Member Retention.

Despite the economic pressures of the pandemic, TQL Packaging Solutions is poised for 20% growth over 2019. This growth pushed the converter to purchase and install a Rotoflex VLI 700.

Although SpectraGraphics already had two SATURN high-speed slitter inspection rewinders installed and running, it has opted for a third SATURN with FUTURA device featuring FastCut, the automated knife and counter-knife positioning device developed by PRATI.