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The countdown to ICE USA 2013 has begun. Only a few weeks remain until thousands of converting industry professionals will come together in Orlando to take part in North America's largest converting event, April 9 -11, 2013, at the Orange County Convention Center. Going into the home stretch, ICE USA 2013 is already 25 to 30 percent larger than the 2011 biennial event, and will feature more than 100 first-time exhibitors that will join nearly 200 returning exhibitors.

ARCHDALE, North Carolina, USA -- Novamelt GmbH has acquired the remaining 49% share of Novamelt-Jowat LLC from Jowat Corporation and Jowat AG. The purchase amount was not disclosed. The wholly-owned subsidiary will now be known as Novamelt Americas LLC. The company will expand its geographic support role to include all customers in North, Central, and South America. Novamelt expanded to North America in 2005 in order to support its global customer base with local manufacturing and R&D, and to establish a direct investment presence in the US Dollar-denominated economy. Jowat Corporation was the perfect partner at that time. Jowat

Why should anyone want to work for your firm? Sure, it's a buyer's market, with nationwide unemployment still hovering around 9 percent. Even now, however, printers can still be heard lamenting the lack of quality, skilled employees, and perhaps we can attribute that to the top performers happy with where they work, what they're doing and how much they're getting paid. Instead of following a "take it or leave it" stance to employment, there is a select group of companies in the printing industry that take an aggressive approach to offering working terms and conditions that attract and keep

The Treofan Group has signed a marketing partnership agreement with Shiner International (China) and Alliance Packaging (Hong Kong), which will boost the partners' geographical reach and product offering and create significant global growth opportunities, the company said. The Treofan Group has signed a marketing partnership agreement with Shiner International (China) and Alliance Packaging (Hong Kong), which will boost the partners' geographical reach and product offering and create significant global growth opportunities, the company said. Treofan will have exclusive responsibility for marketing and sales of coated films and tobacco films for Shiner in Europe

UPM Raflatac has launched its 2.6 mil PP Hi-Opacity White TC product offering for the Americas market. This bright white, highly opaque film provides customers with an alternative to traditional pearlescent white films. UPM Raflatac’s new 2.6 mil PP Hi-Opacity White TC film products are suited to health and beauty, pharmaceuticals and food labeling applications. Designed for trouble-free, flexographic printing with film inks, this facestock’s bright white appearance showcases multi-colored graphics and text to their best advantage, even when reverse-printed, says the company. The range available with RP37, the company’s water-based emulsion adhesive for films, and a variety of

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