Mike Nowak

cei (Coating Excellence International), a flexible packaging and technical products company, announced the purchase of the flexible packaging business of ECP’s Brantford, Ontario plant.

cei (Coating Excellence International), a market-leading flexible packaging and technical products company, hosted a visit from Governor Scott Walker.

Mike Nowak, founder and president of Coating Excellence International, a flexible packaging company located in Wrightstown, Wis., was recently featured on a business segment of Fox Business News, on the show “Americas Nightly Scoreboard” with host David Asman.

The term “globalization” has become one of the package-printing industry’s favorite things to talk about. It’s important enough that the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) devoted an entire study on the effects of globalization on flexible packaging, and in 2007, PLGA Global made globalization the theme of its annual operational conference. Domestically, the economic impacts of globalization are sometimes negative. But, some experts and converters believe that there are new opportunities opening by globalizing their businesses. More importantly, there may be no choice in the matter. What does it mean to you? Globalization means different things to different people. Merriam-Webster defines globalization as “the act,

Coating Excellence International produces photo-quality images with water-based inks on W&H flexo presses. COATING EXCELLENCE INTERNATIONAL (CEI, Wrightstown, Wis.) started out in life in 1997 as an extrusion company, focusing on poly-coating and poly-laminating paper substrates using a 105" Egan Davis Standard high-speed extruder. It wasn't long, however, before the company expanded into the printing business, installing a new 8-color Windmoeller & Hoelscher flexographic press in January of 2000. Later that same year, CEI doubled its capacity, adding another 105" Egan extruder, a second Windmoeller & Hoelscher press, and support equipment. The company has continued to expand its facilities, adding two additional Windmoeller &