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Roll Flex has big plans for future growth, and at the center of those plans is the Durst Tau RSC-E and all the benefits 1,200 dpi inkjet technology brings to the label printing business.

The flexible package printing market is growing, even in light of our global economy’s uncertain future. In 2008, shipments of printed packaging totaled about $79.7 billion in North America alone. Out of that total, flexible packaging made up about $28 billion, according to a recent study commissioned by the Print Industries Market Information and Research Organization (PRIMIR). PRIMIR estimates that, by 2013, flexible packaging shipments will grow to $31.1 billion dollars in the United States. Globally, flexographic printing makes up about 60%—which translates to roughly $260 billion—of the world’s $440 billion printed packaging market. As countries such as Brazil,

After two and a half days of competition at the 2011 International Phoenix Challenge High School Flexo Competition, first-place was awarded along with USD $1,000 scholarships to Sharon Mai and Chong Wang. The team is from Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The duo were declared the winners of the 14th annual international competition which took place at the Harper National Flexographic Center at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina in early April. The pair won the first place award by earning this year's highest combined scores in the contest's five exams: written knowledge, math,

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

The 2010 Harper Flexographic Solutions Tour, free seminars organized by Harper GraphicSolutions, division of global anilox supplier Harper Corporation, concluded before an enthusiastic crowd October 6 in Somerset, NJ.

WEST CHESTER, Ohio—Color-Logic has named Vizutek as its manufacturers’ representative for the Northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania.