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More than 500 entries from Flexo printers around the world were evaluated in the 2013 Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) Excellence in Flexography Awards. The awards were presented at the FTA Forum & INFO*FLEX show in San Diego. Kodak customers Sunshine Plastics Corp., Colbert Flexographic Packaging Corp., and Encore Envelopes Ltd., UK, took home the coveted "Best of Show" honors. Full story at Kodak.com/go/domorewithless

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.—Custom-made candies shipped factory direct to consumers, rely not only on their hard outer shell for protection, but also an innovative packaging structure called the AirLiner, to ensure the candies melt in your mouth—and never in the mail.

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.

Coast Label Company, a Fountain Valley, Calif.-based company, has recently been awarded L.I.F.E. (Label Initiative for the Environment) certification from TLMI.

MGI USA, a manufacturer of multi-substrate (paper and plastic) digital press and finishing solutions, announced that they have added six new dealers to its U.S. network within recent months.