Wales

Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, and Blueprint Media Ltd., a leading design firm in the UK, have announced the formation of Shorewood.blueprint, a design and development center for packaging, located in West London.

CARDIFF, Wales—Vision inspection equipment manufacturer Surfscan Technologies, Cardiff, Wales, has taken its first step into the export market by appointing Mainplate Controls as its US and Canada sales and support agent. Surfscan has designed a range of surface and web inspection systems under the CHECK brand and has developed what it regards as highly efficient algorithms to ‘guarantee’ 100 percent inspection on converting equipment, such as slitter rewinders with its CHECKwinder system. Mainplate Controls is a slitter rewinder specialist and situated in the heart of the US ‘slitter rewinder belt,’ according to CEO Karm Sohi. “We are frequently asked about inspection and vision systems,”