Michigan

Squid Ink Manufacturing, Inc. announced the signing of Grosel Industrial Sales to distribute Squid Ink’s VDP In-Line variable data printing system in Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky. Grosel Industrial Sales is an award-winning representative and distributor of products and automation services for the printing and converting industries. They assist the customer on projects from concept to completion and believe in a systematic approach to solving customer issues and help in finding the ROI. Grosel Industrial Sales has been in business since 1970 and is based in Cleveland, OH. The VDP In-Line variable data printing system prints up to 8.4” of any

News on suppliers to the package printig industry, featuring RotoMetrics, Heidelberg USA, Bunting Magnetics, 3 Sigma, MACtac, PCMC, Toray Plastcs, Danaher,  EskoArtwork, and Comexi Group.

Plastic packaging will be the focus of a new episode of "Modern Marvels," set to premier on Jan. 14 on the History Channel. The episode will feature Joe Hotchkiss, director of the packaging school at Michigan State University. Here's how the History Channel describes the episode: "It's all around us--so much a part of our lives that we forget it's there. But try to survive a single day without packaging. This episode reveals the astounding technology and ingenuity required to create our packaged world. At a Michigan company that designs water bottles, we'll show you how engineers find their

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Display Pack Inc., an award-winning manufacturer of Single Source Solutions™ packaging services, was presented with two Ameristar awards—one award being the “People’s Choice Award”—at this year’s International Organization of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) Package Competition in Rosemont, Ill. Display Pack won the awards for its cutting-edge design of a pie box created for Mary Beth’s Apple Pie Co., a gourmet, mail-order pie company owned by actress Mary Beth Evans, who stars as Kayla Brady on “Days of Our Lives.” These are the company’s second and third consecutive awards from IoPP, the industry’s top organization dedicated to the packaging profession. “As a privately owned

Join a Graphic All-Star team for a one and a half day conference discussing facts, trends and forecasts invaluable to printing, publishing and converting professionals. The 25th annual PRINT OUTLOOK® conference, sponsored by NPES the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, will be held December 1-2, 2005 at the Hilton Arlington in Arlington, Virginia. The program is packed with cutting-edge presentations and panel discussions by economists, advertisers, market experts, political analysts, printers and other industry leaders. Register at www.npes.org/conferences/register.pdf before October 28 and receive a $50 Early Bird discount. Room reservations with the NPES block should be made directly