DuPont to Exhibit at Virtual Fall Conference 2020
SÃO PAULO, Brazil—From Oct. 5 to 7, DuPont Image Solutions (DuPont) will participate in Virtual Fall Conference 2020. The event is a virtual replacement for the in-person version and the focus of this edition is to prove that the collaboration between customers, printers and suppliers is essential to deliver the perfect package—the perfect vision—to shelf. […]
Hub Labels Embraces FTA Technical Innovation Award Winners, Rivals Offset & Digital Print Quality
Hub Labels has been a proponent of pioneering advances in the label printing industry.
Comexi CTec Launches a New Service Allowing Converting Companies to Integrate Prepress
Comexi CTec has incorporated a new service to integrate the prepress process into the facilities of its clients.
Former DuPont Business Director Dr. Reinhard Ulbrich Passes Away
WILMINGTON, DE—Dr. Reinhard Ulbrich, the former business director of DuPont’s Cyrel flexo printing plates division in Europe has died. He was 89. Dr. Ulbrich was widely known throughout the printing and packaging industry around the world and played a major role in the development of flexo printing from being almost a cottage industry to the […]
Remembering Print Industry Veteran Larry Evans
Print industry veteran Larry Evans passed away on April 17 at age 64. Born and raised in Charlotte, NC, Evans graduated from Olympic High School in 1973. He then attended Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated in 1976. Following in his father’s footsteps to become a printer by trade, his career highlights including working at […]
Greg Collins, Who Gave Much to the Flexographic Industry and FTA, Joins Its Hall of Fame
They say you only get what you give. Looking at what Greg Collins has given, it would seem he’s owed quite a bit. He gave, as a steadfast supporter of FTA, a methodical and measured approach to its governing boards, and laid the groundwork for consistency and repeatability in its operations. He gave, as a […]
Plasmar SA Reports Success with Comexi F4 Flexographic Press
GIRONA, Spain—One year ago, Comexi, a global supplier of solutions for the printing and flexible packaging industry transformation, installed a Comexi F4 flexographic press at Plasmar SA headquarters, reaching an important milestone: the presence of 90 Comexi machines in the region. The Colombian company reported that the Comexi F4 flexographic press has enabled it to […]
Winners Named in 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards by Dow
MIDLAND, MI—Dow announced the winners of the 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards, which recognize the packaging industry’s top achievements in innovative packaging design, materials, technologies and processes. FTA members honored include Procter & Gamble, ProAmpac and Blue Apron. The highest honor, the Diamond Award, went to Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd, Packaging Division’s DNP Functional Film […]
Figuring Out the Fingerprint at Forum 2019
Printers looking to improve their repeatability and consistency did well to attend Forum 2019‘s “Gaining Control of Your Process: The Fingerprint,” chaired by Zachery Blackburn of Central Piedmont Community College. Flexo 101: Preparing for a Fingerprint Mark Mazur, FTA Hall of Fame member, discussed how a printer can prepare for a press fingerprint. “I hate […]
The Next Generation of Flexographers Glimpse the Industry’s Future at Forum 2019
Forum 2019‘s “FQC: Research Is the Key to a Successful Flexo Future,” co-chaired by Jason Cagle, MacDermid Graphics Solutions and Jean Engelke, FFTA Board chair-elect, spotlighted research projects completed by a handful of students, as well as a Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC) project report and, for the first time, featured the Phoenix Challenge College Competition […]
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