MacDermid Graphic Arts Inc., Atlanta, forms a new Printing Solutions organization focused on publication, packaging and commercial markets. The structure unites the resources currently under the discrete businesses of MGA. Products of photopolymer plates, offset blankets and flexo/offset sleeves are now under one management.

A friction/peel tester has been added to the arsenal of surface-treating equipment at Enercon Industries' laboratory. The tester at the Menomonee Falls, Wis., corona-treater supplier's operation helps converters identify the effects of various levels and types of surface treatment.

Milwaukee-based International Thermal Systems LLC, an OEM specializing in custom-engineered thermal processing and finishing systems, forms a Web Drying Technology Group in Green Bay, Wis. The new division offers convective air-drying systems for the paper and converting industries.

Henkel of America, Inc., Gulph Mills, Pa., purchases 50 percent of the outstanding shares in its joint venture with Lord Corp., Cary, N.C., and Brazil. The joint ventures, Liofol Co.—U.S., and Liofol Ltda.—Brazil, supply adhesives to flexible-packaging converters in the U.S. and South America.

ExxonMobil Chemical Co., breaks ground this fall on a 100,000-sq-ft building to house a major, new production unit at the company's OPP manufacturing plant in Shawnee, Okla. The expansion creates 50 new jobs for the area and increases capacity at the plant by 35 percent. ExxonMobil plans to debut the new orienter line next year, with full capacity targeted for 2003.

Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Emerson Motion Control gets a name change to Control Techniques. The switch is a result of combining the company's industrial drive and motion-control products in North, South and Central America with operations of U.K.-based Control Techniques over the past few years.

Presstek Inc., Hudson, N.H., enters a strategic agreement with pressmaker Koenig & Bauer, AG (KBA), Williston, Vt., to sell the new KBA 46 Karat digital press using Presstek ProFire imaging technology, which consumes Presstek PearlDry plates. As part of the deal, KBA also will distribute and sell Presstek's Dimension200 and Dimension400 computer-to-plate systems and Anthem plates outside the U.S. and Canada.