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WOOD DALE, IL -- Toyo Ink America, LLC, a member of the worldwide Toyo Ink Group, announced that it has expanded production of liquid and ultraviolet inks for packaging applications, in the North America region. The company recently relocated its headquarters to a more spacious, state-of-the-art facility in Wood Dale, Illinois. The roughly 109,000-square-foot-facility dramatically boosts the company's production, development and technical support capability by affording room for new equipment, an expanded R&D laboratory and an increase in sales and technical staff. At the new site Toyo Ink America plans to produce and develop water- and solvent-based liquid inks,

Following successful installations in Cuba and Mexico, KBA’s compact B2 Rapida 75 is busy making inroads in Brazil, a key market. First up, in February 2010, was a four-colour version which has substantially boosted capacity, output and quality at Imprensa Nacional, the government printing office in Brasilia, the capital. Other more recent Brazilian successes also appeared in the news last week. Dating back to 1808, Imprensa Nacional is under the direct authority of the Brazilian president. It has a current workforce of 340, 84 of them in production, which alongside sheetfed offset encompasses newspaper web and digital presses. The

A few years ago, ice in Orlando, Florida would have seemed an unusual, rare event. However, the past two winters have made it seem like ice in Orlando in January might be not be so unusual anymore. But we're not talking ice in January; we're talking ICE in April and the current plan is to have this not be a rare event, but one that occurs every two years.

Label Summit Latin America opens up in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 17-18,  2011 at the Hotel Transamerica with a new format that will see live machinery demonstrations take place for the very first time.

MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis.—The new addition serves the converting, flexible packaging, and extruding industries.

For the past several years I have been teaching professional English for the printing industry at the University of Wuhan, China. I had delivered lectures there while I was president of the NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. After retirement, I was asked if I would teach the subject for a 3-month period to which I readily agreed. I was well prepared because, for 30 years, I had served as the CEO of the association which had offices in -Tokyo, Shanghai, New Delhi, Sao Paulo, and Moscow, and I frequently made presentations about the state of the U.S. printing