Regis J. Delmontagne

RESTON, Va.—The world's largest and most complete commercial, package printing, and converting event of 2005 continues to grow even as opening day draws ever closer, adding new exhibitors just weeks before the big show starts in Chicago. The Graphic Arts Show Company, Inc. (GASC®), the event's producer, announced that 46 new exhibitors had signed up for the show in July alone. Among them are: *   Apago, Inc., providing software for manipulation of PDF, PostScript and other files. *   Globe-Tek, offering enterprise-level print management solutions. *   NoviPack, a French maker of a wide range of packaging films and related products. *   ECRM Imaging Systems, Inc., developers

Regis J. Delmontagne will retire at the end of 2005 as President of NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, the Graphic Arts Show Company and the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation, NPES and GASC Chair Kathryn P. Marx has announced. Delmontagne was the Association's first full-time professional executive.  At the time he joined the Association, then known as the National Printing Equipment Association in December 1976, membership comprised 37 companies; today there are more than 400. He has been President of GASC since the show management company was created in 1982 and of GAERF since the Foundation was

Package printers' 2001 prospects look brighter than the cloudy overall economic picture. by Regis J. Delmontagne, President, NPES As 2001 began, our industry was concerned, for the first time in several years, with the prospect of an economic slowdown. The printing industry in general, and package printing in particular, have been doing very well recently, but some authorities fear even a modest economic setback could have disproportionate impacts. At last December's PRINT OUTLOOK® 2001 conference in Washington, for example, National Association of Printers and Lithographers Economist Andrew Paparozzi noted if the national economy grows in 2001 and 2002 at only about a 3.5 percent

Buoyed by the surging national economy, package printers are expected to buy, diversify,and go digital to profit in 2000. By Regis J. Delmontagne, President, NPES A national economic expansion unprecedented in its duration and vigor continued in 1999—and will continue in 2000—to power the package printing industry to strong growth. Economists speaking at December's PRINT OUTLOOK® 2000 program in Washington, DC, noted that 1999 was the fifth consecutive year in which the U.S. economy grew by 3.7 percent or more. Economic expansions throughout our history have averaged 32 months in length, while the current boom finished 1999 in its 105th month of growth. As