CONVERTING MAGAZINE NEWS

• Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Siemens proximity sensor business
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 14, 2010
  Acquisition strengthens German supplier as leading provider of proximity sensing and other factory automation solutions.
  
• Coating Excellence now certified SGP printer
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 14, 2010
  WI flexible-packaging converting firm gains Sustainable Green Partnership status; joins 17 other printers across the country.
  
• AIMCAL fall tech conference calls for papers
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 14, 2010
  Committee seeks presentations on vacuum web coating, atmospheric web coating and laminating, and specialty web coating.
  
• Danafilms doubles coextruded-film capacity at KY plant
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 12, 2010
  MA substrate provider invests $7 million in 50,000-sq-ft plant expansion and new 7-layer W&H film line; startup expected in late 2010.
  
• Flexible packaging poised for growth in 2010
  
  John Kalkowski, Packaging Digest, March 12, 2010
  Sector's revenues expected to outpace US economic growth this year at 3.5 percent, rising to $26.6 billion, says FPA State of the Industry Report.
  
• Paperboard Packaging Council welcomes 10 new members
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 12, 2010
  Seven principal, three associate members from NAPA join PPC as part of recent merger of the two trade groups.
  

• Heidelberg USA widens scope of demo center

  
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 12, 2010
  GA facility renamed North American Print and Packaging Technology Center; houses latest workflow, prepress, press, postpress and packaging solutions.
  
• F&K to launch new flexographic press at April open house
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 11, 2010
    Four-day event to introduce FLEXPRESS 15-Series of compact, CI-flexo printing presses; company to inaugurate new tech center in Bielefeld, Germany.
  
• 2010 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards honor "added value"
  
  Lauren Hartman, March 11, 2010
    Package constructions mix functionality, convenience and flair in this year's FPA competition. Cryovac Food Packaging's Marinade On-Demand™ package wins Highest Achievement honor along with a gold award for technical innovation. (Photos)
  
• TLMI names four Best Managed Companies
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 11, 2010
  2010 Eugene Singer Award winners for Management Excellence honored at annual converters meeting: Coast Label, Kopco Graphics, The Label Printers, Consolidated Label.
  
• Booming business for Macro leads to major plant expansion
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 10, 2010
  Canadian film and sheet extrusion systems supplier will increase production floor space by 40 percent.
  
• Michelman sets price hike for paper coatings
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 10, 2010
  Cincinnati supplier blames rising raw material costs for barrier, functional and appearance coatings formulations.
  
• Diamond Graphics purchases Xeikon digital press
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 10, 2010
  With new 5000Splus digital technology, MN packaging converter can print more than 150,000 cards per day.
  
• manroland VLF press for Standard Printing
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 8, 2010
    OH packaging printing, converting firm installs 6-color, 73-in. XXL offset press for top sheet, litho-label, POP-display applications.
  
• Sonoco ups paperboard, converted-products prices again
  
  March 8, 2010
  Substrate provider joins competitors in raising UCR paperboard grades by $60/ton, effective April 5.
  
• Apstar diecutter expands capacity for Menasha Packaging
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 7, 2010
  Four-color rotary diecutter at Santa Fe Springs, CA, plant turns out 4,500 sph for corrugated-packaging customers.
  
• RockTenn raises coated recycled paperboard price
  
  March 7, 2010
  On the heels of its containerboard price hike announced last Wednesday, the GA substrate provider sets a $45 a ton CRP price increase, effective April 6.
  
• World food-container demand up 3.9% a year, says new study
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 7, 2010
    Bags and pouches will remain the largest packaging type of food container by a wide margin, predicts The Freedonia Group, as global sales reach $124 billion in 2013.
  
• thelamco, Inc. attains SFI® certification
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 5, 2010
  MI coating, laminating firm receives chain-of-custody approval from Sustainable Forestry Initiative for papers converted at its facility.
  
• Beyer Graphics adds Bobst folder/gluer
  
  PRESS RELEASE, March 5, 2010
  NY folding-carton printing and converting firm installs an EXPERTFOLD 110-A2 CS system to serve pharma, consumer-goods packaging customers.