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The winners of the second Heidelberg ECO Printing Award were honored at a ceremony at the Print Media Academy (PMA) in Heidelberg on July 6, 2011. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) initiated this international sustainability award for sheetfed offset print shops.

MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Tailored Solutions has named Shekinah PTE Ltd. their exclusive agent in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines for its Label Traxx™ print business management software. Under the agreement, Shekinah will market the Label Traxx product to label printers and flexographic converters in Southeast Asia. Announcing the appointment, Tailored Solutions President Ken Meinhardt commented, “Tailored Solutions is pleased to be associated with Shekinah. We look forward to a long and mutually productive relationship with a company that is known throughout Southeast Asia as a knowledgeable supplier to the flexographic and label market.” Shekinah Director Benjamin Koh said, “As an established supplier to

BANGKOK, Thailand—The premiere staging of PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand achieved its objective to become a forum for the region’s packaging and printing sectors: 285 exhibitors from 25 countries displayed their latest technologies on 161,400 square feet of gross exhibit space to some 20,000 trade visitors from 62 countries. The attendees included official delegations from Vietnam, the Philippines, and India. The event’s three co-organizers Messe Düsseldorf Asia, the Thai Packaging Association and the Thai Printing Association were pleased with the results of PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL 2007. “The three organizers have worked closely to make this show a great success for exhibitors and

By Dr Peter Harrop IDTechEx At IDTechEx, when we teach Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), we talk of it being a ubiquitous enabling technology like the wheel or paper. Some people consider that to be rather far fetched. After all, wheels extend from prayer wheels, steering wheels, and wheels of fortune to aircraft wheels and microscopic wheels in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems MEMS. They are everywhere, as is paper because that appears as anything from art to toilet paper, packaging, books, and origami. The IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase has captured more than 2,400 cases of RFID in action involving more than 2,500 organizations in 85 countries.