Fairfield, NJ-based Anderson & Vreeland, Inc., has switched its representation for flexographic photopolymer printing plates. A&V will no longer be a distributor for MacDermid Printing Solutions' (Atlanta) photopolymer plates, and will instead act as a distributor for BASF Printing Systems' (Mt. Olive, NJ) nyloflex® line of plates.

Germany label and packaging-materials converter Schafer-Etiketten and Kugler-Womako, a Körber PaperLink company, plan to cooperate in the field of labeling technology. Schafer-Etiketten will cease the manufacture and sale of its labeling machines to expand its core business of manufacturing and printing p-s labels and packaging materials. Kugler-Womako will, in turn, incorporate the Combina labeling machine series from Schafer-Etiketten into its own product lines and manufacture, sell and further develop it in the existing company organization at its own cost.

Port Huron, MI-based Acheson Colloid Co. and ANI Printing Inks, Plymouth, MN, form a three-year partnership to further the technology of RFID. ANI will be the exclusive distributor of Acheson's polymer thick-film conductive inks for RFID to printers of labels, films, folding cartons, plastic cards and tubes via flexo, letterpress, rotary screen and offset printing methods. The agreement covers North and Central America.