X-Rite Inc and Pantone LLC released the next generation of the ColorCert ScoreCard Server with new customizable dashboards and reports designed for packaging converters.
Flint Group confirmed the successful completion of the sale of its XSYS division to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm.
ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, announced that it has acquired Belle-Pak Packaging, an award-winning manufacturer of flexible packaging products. With the addition of Belle-Pak, ProAmpac expands its growing presence in Canada and extends its reach in high-growth e-commerce, health care and logistics end markets.
IMPREAC – Impresos y Acabados S.A.S. has installed its second Nilpeter FB-Line, an FB-350, to improve production capacity in multi-layer coupon labels. The company expects to increase capacity by more than 30 percent.
Paper Converting Machine Co (PCMC), a part of Barry-Wehmiller, is excited to announce its partnership with Fox Valley Flexo Services to provide educational opportunities, demonstrations and training through PCMC’s Packaging Innovation Center.
Baldwin Technology Company Inc is pleased to announce that sales professionals Scott Burnett and Thomas Kobrak have joined the organization. Baldwin recently realigned its sales teams to provide a single regional point of contact for printing and packaging industry customers, optimizing service and simplifying access to the company’s process-improvement and consumables technologies, as well as access to technical experts.
The CMM Group, a global supplier of air pollution control and process equipment, announced it has entered an agreement with Condorchem Envitech SL to offer Condorchem’s solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and other process technologies in the US and Canada.
The TakClean Ultra is an advancement of Meech’s original and hugely successful TakClean system. With its compact, robust and visually appealing design, TakClean Ultra has been manufactured specifically for webs between 25.6-in. and 57.1-in. in width.
Wipak UK, a company specializing in the production of sophisticated, high-barrier films for food products, has purchased a Comexi S1 DT slitter with double-sided laser scoring. The new capabilities resulting from this investment will allow the family-owned company to further develop its sustainable packaging portfolio.
At the constituent drupa Committee meeting on Feb. 8, Dr. Andreas Pleßke, CEO of Koenig & Bauer AG, was elected chairman of the committee. Wolfgang Poppen, managing partner of Freiburger Druck GmbH & Co KG and president of the German Printing and Media Industries Federation (Bundesverband Druck und Medien eV), was re-elected as his deputy. The election of both candidates was unanimous.