Greensboro, NC-based North State Flexibles puts its new 10-color Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. (Lincoln, RI) Novoflex CI-flexo printing press online at its headquarters facility. The 52-in. wide, gearless, direct-drive press (with infinitely variable repeat lengths) is designed for fast changeover and consistent quality at maximum speeds. With the Novoflex, North State hopes to grow even stronger in the lawn & garden market and gain a stronger foothold in the animal-care industry.

FlexTech Packaging Ltd., Cincinnati, installs an additional multi-layer co-extrusion packaging film line from Hosokawa Alpine American (Natick, MA). The 7-layer line, in operation for several months, produces barrier-property food packaging films and features seven Alpine 30:1 L/D grooved-feed extruders, providing processing of EVOH, Nylon, polypropylenes, metallocene, and other barrier-film resins.

Fairfield, NJ-based converter Logotech Inc. installs a new Arsoma EM280 UV-flexo press at its headquarters plant. The 6-color, 11-in.-wide system from Gallus Inc. (Philadelphia) now adds flexo to the labelmaker's letterpress and digital printing capabilities, inline and off-line hot-stamping stations and pressure-sensitive labeling equipment.

To expand its vacuum-coating capacity, metallized-material converter CPFilms Inc. adds a high-speed, wide-width sputtering machine at its Martinsville, VA facility. The system, capable of metallic and reactive deposition and multilayer stacking, runs films from 0.50 to 10 mil and widths up to 72 in. The equipment is intended to serve the growing market for sophisticated solar-control films and high-precision coatings for electronic displays.

Impressions Inc., a St. Paul, MN-based paperboard converter, now offers its customers iFLEX—UV-flexo printing for blister cards, carded packaging and folding cartons. The heart of iFLEX is a new 8-color, 21.5-in.-wide press with inline coating and diecutting capabilities from Chromas Technologies, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.