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Siegwerk Canada and USA (CUSA) has begun new construction of a Center for Printing Excellence to house Siegwerk’s pilot press. Ground-breaking began on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. The Center for Printing Excellence is projected to be finished and operational by the end of 2012 and will be housed at Siegwerk’s Des Moines, IA, facility (CUSA headquarters).

ARCHDALE, North Carolina, USA -- Novamelt GmbH has acquired the remaining 49% share of Novamelt-Jowat LLC from Jowat Corporation and Jowat AG. The purchase amount was not disclosed. The wholly-owned subsidiary will now be known as Novamelt Americas LLC. The company will expand its geographic support role to include all customers in North, Central, and South America. Novamelt expanded to North America in 2005 in order to support its global customer base with local manufacturing and R&D, and to establish a direct investment presence in the US Dollar-denominated economy. Jowat Corporation was the perfect partner at that time. Jowat

Demand for aseptic packaging is expected to significantly outpace the overall packaging industry and will exceed $5 billion in 2015. Growth will be driven by drug sterility requirements and ambient distribution and storage advantages for food and beverages. Gains will also be supported by growing interest in natural and minimally processed food and beverage products, as the short heating time and lower temperature of aseptic processing minimizes loss of flavor and nutrients and offers extended shelf life without preservatives. Pharmaceutical market to see above-average growth Above-average growth in pharmaceutical applications will

HC Miller Press has announced they are carrying the Mark Andy flexo press in their inventory of used flexographic printing equipment. The company sells used flexo presses and are specialists in this niche industry. The Mark Andy Flexo Press is a popular seller because the brand name manufacturer is known for producing high quality, reliable and durable printing presses. Mark Andy Inc. is the world's number one manufacturer of narrow web printing equipment. The company is known for providing solutions that increase productivity and increase profits for the label and packaging industry. Their global headquarters is located in St. Louis,

The sad news from Friday that manroland has filed for insolvency in its hometown of Augsburg, Germany should also light a beacon of awareness in the global printing and converting industry. As one who worked for manroland – MAN Roland as it was then - distributor Edwards Dunlop Graphics in the 1980s (although on the prepress side), I felt a particular pang of regret that this great contributor to world literacy, information and entertainment via the printed word, should find itself in such dire straits. In those days, EDG handled the sheetfed presses while Craven Print & Pack handled

CAMBRIDGE & WIGTON, UK—Nov. 2, 2011—Innovia Films, a leading global manufacturer of speciality films, and PragmatIC Printing, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, have announced the successful integration of printed electronic functionality onto Innovia Films’ Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) label substrates. The first prototypes are interactive bottle labels that activate a sequence of flashing lights when the bottle is held. This is only one example, from numerous possibilities, of how active packaging can be used to attract, inform or interact with the consumer. Innovia Films exhibited the prototype electronic labels on its stand at the Packaging Innovations show held

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