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News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Avery Dennison and Gallus, AB Graphics, Montalvo upgrades for Mark Andy presses,  Multi-Plastics Extrusions' signing of the Hutchinson Miller Sales Company, Martin Automatic, TLMI and ALTANA.

Pressure-sensitive labeling technology has many advantages and has a huge installed base of label application equipment, but its waste profile could be viewed as a longer term Achilles Heel.

The TLMI (Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute) presented Supplier of the Year honors to Pat Hague, ink industry executive, and Environmental Leadership Awards to Pasadena, Calif.-based Avery Dennison and Rochester, N.Y.-based Label World.

A new diecutting technology, called Avery Dennison ThinStream, allows the diecutting of labels with a liner as thin as 12 microns, about half of the current minimum in the market.

“Although ranked number one in annual sales volume, overall market share, and export volume for many consecutive years, COFCO Great Wall Wine set out in January 2009 on a strategic label redesign that would help elevate the Great Wall brand to an even higher level of emotional connection with consumers,” said Qin Ping, branding manager for COFCO Great Wall.

Gerry Weber International AG, the Germany-based manufacturer and retailer of women's fashion, was recently recognized by RFID Journal for the 2011 Best RFID Implementation, a successful end-to-end solution facilitated by Avery Dennison.

A panel of label industry experts announced the winner of the R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award as Helmut Schreiner, executive manager and owner of the Schreiner Group. The judging panel convened during the recent FINAT Congress in Sicily and selected Schreiner from a number of high-caliber nominations. The award is sponsored by Avery Dennison.

Gallus, Inc. is partnering with ASL Print FX to host a Package Printing Forum on Thursday, July 14 from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. in Vaughan, Ontario Canada (five minutes from Toronto Pearson Airport).

Consumer product packaging brand owners, designers, production specialists and procurement professionals learned about the advantages that digital production solutions offer at the recent Follow Possible Package Printing Forum presented by Hamilton, Ohio-based Innovative Labeling Solutions (ILS) and sponsored by HP.

Avery Dennison has given its business units new names to communicate their focus on market-driven solutions that help make brands more inspiring and the world more intelligent.