EMT International, Green Bay, Wis., purchases Deublin Co.'s, Waukegan, Ill., core-holding product line, which includes air shafts and chucks for printers, converters, and paper mills on web-processing equipment. The product line will be manufactured at EMT's Green Bay facility.

Ox Paper Tube & Core, Inc. purchases its current manufacturing plant at 331 Maple Ave., Hanover, Pa. The acquisition of the 90,000-sq-ft production and warehouse facility allows the company to keep up with higher demand for its lines of spiral-wound paper tubes and cores for the converting, label, tape, plastic and textile industries.

Lasercutting Services, Grand Rapids, Mich., purchases Michigan Lasercut, a Grand Rapids-based supplier of custom dies for cutting folding cartons, corrugated boxes, labels, nameplates and gaskets. The company will continue operating under the Michigan Lasercut name.

Los Angeles-based PackageX, Inc., provider of Web-based technologies to the packaging and point-of-purchase display industry, says its recently launched Web site has been well received by pilot users. Early participants include Weyerhaeuser, Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corp., Packaging Corp. of America, Eastman Kodak Co., Fortune Brands, Inc., and Packaging Specialists Inc.

Scitex Vision and Aprion Digital jointly develop the ENjet, a new sheetfed, wide-format digital press that directly prints a range of rigid substrates. The industrial water-based digital press is said to run materials such as paperboard, corrugated and rigid vinyl. Based on Aprion's MAGIC (multiple array graphic inkjet color) technology that has found converting applications for POP displays, the ENjet reportedly runs at speeds of 25,000 droplets/sec per nozzle. The eco-friendly, pigmented inks are said to be odor-free and last up to two years.

P-s labelstock maker Raflatac Group opens a converting plant in Durban, South Africa, March 23, after acquiring the operations of Vynide, a specialty synthetic p-s laminate maker. Raflatac already holds a strong market position in South Africa, having distributed product there since 1994.

Logan, Utah-based DuPont Holographics, Inc., secures a long-term agreement with Motorola to market holographic reflectors for use in liquid crystal displays on consumer devices such as cell phones, pagers and PDAs. DuPont now has the right to market holographic reflectors for LCD use worldwide.

Duluth, Ga.-based JM Laboratories, Inc., adopts the name and logo of its parent company, Nordson Corp. Full integration was expected to be complete this month. In 1998, Nordson acquired JM Laboratories, which designs and manufactures systems that apply polymers, adhesives and other materials in applications, including nonwoven fiber production, polyfilm lamination, paper converting and textile coating.