MINNEAPOLIS

Label printer Smyth Companies has purchased a Mitsubishi Diamond 3000LX sheetfed press to accelerate job turnarounds at its Bedford, Va., plant.

Smyth Companies, one of North America’s premier package label printers, specializes in label and package promotion solutions for consumer goods in a variety of markets. Meeting customers’ just-in-time needs is crucial. The Minneapolis, Minn.-based printer has purchased a high-productivity Mitsubishi Diamond 3000LX sheetfed press to accelerate job turnarounds at its Bedford, Va., plant.

xpedx announced a new network of seven Package Design Centers with the opening of centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Rochester, N.Y., and the expansion of existing design centers in Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Juarez, Mexico, metropolitan areas. xpedx provides total packaging solutions for manufacturers, brand owners/marketers and other businesses. xpedx also announced it has added new package design staff and services in 12 other U.S. metropolitan regions: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Grand Rapids, Mich., Greensboro, N.C., Memphis, Tenn., Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle, and Tampa, Fla.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Eaglewood Technologies, makers of the Sani-Blast System (www.sani-blast.com), will exhibit at the FTA InfoFlex in Las Vegas May 3-4.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Imagine! Print Solutions announced that it has invested in a Nilpeter FB-4200 servo press, an 8-color press with a 16-inch web width.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Ed Dedman, a flexo-industry veteran of more than 30 years, has formed a new company, ProtoPrint Technologies, to focus on representing and developing new ink, coating, and print technologies for the flexographic industry.