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New products

Flint Group launches large format plate making system

24 February 2010

Flint Group Flexographic Products has launched the nyloprint Combi 96 x 120 ED system for the main exposure, drying and post exposure of nyloprint…

New products

Polyfil unveils microcellular polymer technology

24 February 2010

Polyfil Corporation has introduced a new technology, called Ecocell, which can create a microcellular structure (cells less than 100 micron in size)…

New products

Green Bay launches blue fluorescent label paper

23 February 2010

Green Bay Packaging has released an addition to its line of pressure-sensitive fluorescent papers – a bright, sky blue. The sixth color in Green Bay’s…

Finishing & embellishment

Irish converter installs Bar Graphic Machinery slitter rewinder

23 February 2010

Ireland-based self-adhesive label converter Label World has installed an Elite 370 DTR die-cut to register slitter rewinder from Bar Graphic…

3M to acquire A-One’s label business in Japan

22 February 2010

3M has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the A-One branded consumer and office label business and related operations. Terms of the transaction…

Finishing & embellishment

Rotocontrol appoints distributor in South America

18 February 2010

Rotocontrol has appointed Brazilian company Forpack International Trade as the exclusive distributor for its range of finishing equipment for the…

Digital printing

Lightning Label launches iPhone application for custom quotes

18 February 2010

iPhone users can now get a free custom label printing quote in less than a minute with the new iLabel application from Denver, USA-based Lightning…

New products

MGX launches coatings for EFI Jetrion press

18 February 2010

Masterpiece Graphix (MGX) now offers both a matte and gloss substrate coating for the EFI Jetrion UV inkjet label press. MGX has tested these coatings…

Digital printing

Expanded Digital Summit to return to Barcelona in June

17 February 2010

Following the success of the first Digital Label Summit and the Digital Label Experience at Labelexpo Europe in 2009, the organizers of the Labelexpo…

Workflow, MIS & inspection

MGX’s digital materials available through Label Traxx

16 February 2010

Masterpiece Graphix’s materials and services will be available through Tailored Solutions’s job management software Label Traxx Version 5.5. MGX will…

Substrates & adhesives

Plantic appoints Klockner as distributor for Americas

16 February 2010

Australia-based Plantic Technologies has appointed Klockner Pentaplast as distributor in the Americas for its line of biopolymer rigid packaging…

Xeikon partnership raises $318,000 for cancer care

16 February 2010

Xeikon and the Jimmy Fund, a supporter of the fight against cancer at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, have raised over USD $318,000 through the…