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ress release from the issuing company Advanced Web Technologies, LLC, based in Minneapolis, MN announced today it has acquired the assets of US Converting, Inc. of South Elgin, IL. Advanced Web is a pressure sensitive label and flexible packaging converter that serves the Medical Device, OEM, Prime and Specialty Product Markets. Through mergers and acquisitions, Advanced Web has been doing business since 1976. US Converting, Inc. is a wide web flexible packaging converter that was established in 1985. As a superior quality printer and laminator, US Converting provides innovative solutions for customers in the consumer packaged goods industry. With

PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Printing Industries of America has announced the recipients of the 2008 Best Workplace in the Americas Awards.

Rankings in pP's 9th Annual Top 25 Diemakers survey are based solely on annual sales of die manufacturing exclusively for the package printing or converting industries. Sales figures are provided in confidence by ranked companies. Participation in the survey is voluntary. pP does not estimate sales or include diemakers of any size who do not provide full financial and operating data. Every effort is made to contact and include all diemakers in North America and to verify data. 1. Container Graphics, Cary, NC 2. Atlas Die, Elkhart, IN 3. Bernal International, Rochester Hills, MI 4. DieGraphics Group, Holland, OH 5. Diebec, Montreal, PQ Canada

Package printers can get the most out of brakes, clutches and motors with adjustment savvy, package deals and new technology. Industry experts offer a comprehensive cross-section of motion controls currently at work for converters. By Susan Friedman Edd Brooks, project manager and senior technical specialist at Horton Industrial Products, a subsidiary of Horton, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN, says pneumatic, single-position tooth clutches that allow engagement in one place are helping achieve precise ink color changes in tight register print jobs. Brooks also reports air-controlled brakes are providing strong cost and operation benefits, while electrically-controlled components' high technology aura is garnering attention. AC motors are