Chris Davis

IST America announced the return of Chris Davis, a professional in the field with decades of experience, who is rejoining the organization in a key sales development role. Davis is set to invigorate growth and further strengthen IST America’s position as an industry leader.

Davis brings more than 25 years of commercial and executive experience in the printing and converting industry to his new position. Most recently, he served as head of sales for IST America, driving sales activity in packaging and industrial applications.

Norwood Printing, Inc. has completed the installation of its third Edelmann web press, which was supplied by Edelmann’s distributor, Matik North America. Norwood Printing is the Package Insert & Outsert branch of Control Group, a supplier of printed packaging for pharmaceutical, health care, cosmetics, and consumer goods. The press, a Color Print V76, was purchased to provide additional production capacity, as well as replace a full-size sheetfed machine. It will run lightweight pharmaceutical grade paper to produce inserts and outserts. The Color Print V76 includes a lap splicer, multiple offset print towers, a high-speed sheeter/stacker, and UV drying. It has a web width of

The use of combination printing/processing is not a rarity in package printing—not by a long shot. A printer that has the need could combine any of the printing processes, in addition to converting operations such as foil stamping and embossing. The value provided by combination printing is that each printing process can bring its own specific attributes to the party, says Andy Colletta, president/CEO of Nilpeter USA. “Flexography and offset printing provide the lion’s share of the coverage on a signature, including the text and four-color images,” he explains. “Rotary screen is often used to provide an opaque background prior to printing, while