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PMMI, the owner and producer of PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013, announces the Center for Trends & Technology: Improving Production through Innovation, sponsored by Rockwell Automation and its PartnerNetwork Program. Rockwell Automation is the sole sponsor of this new highlight featured on the PACK EXPO show floor.

Delkor has appointed Bernard McDowell as the new Sales Manager for Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana effective February 2013.

The M&G Group, one of the three leading producers in the Americas of PET for packaging applications, announces that it has signed a one billion dollar engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sinopec Engineering Co., Ltd. for the turnkey construction of the world’s largest single line PET plant with a capacity of 1 million tons per year, integrated with the largest western world’s single line PTA plant with a capacity of 1.2 million tons per year. The plan will be located in Corpus Christi, TX.

The majority of independent system integration companies questioned in a global survey believes the outlook for the automation industry will improve in 2013.

Stäubli Connectors will be at the 29th Annual SEMI-THERM Symposium and Exhibition, March 17 - 21 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA. Exhibiting in Booth 208, the industry pioneer will reveal connection solutions for thermal management that set new standards of durability, reliability and safety.

Matrox Imaging is offering classroom training on Matrox Design Assistant 3.0 software for Matrox Iris GT smart cameras, May 6-8, 2013, at its Montreal, Canada headquarters. The 2 ½-day instructor-led course provides in-depth training on developing applications using Design Assistant, an intuitive, versatile and extendable integrated development environment (IDE) for the Iris GT smart camera.

Bemis Company, Inc. announces that it has realigned its segment reporting. As a result, Bemis will report business segment information for three reportable segments as follows: U.S. Packaging, Global Packaging, and Pressure Sensitive Materials. The expansion from two to three reportable segments reflects the separation of the Flexible Packaging business segment into U.S. Packaging and Global Packaging business segments. The Pressure Sensitive Materials business segment is unchanged.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., the only United States manufacturer of precision-performance polyester, polypropylene, and bio-based films, has named Kerri Boyens its new Product Manager for the Torayfan® Polypropylene Film Division. She will be responsible for the growth of OPP film products among key customers in the packaging sector.

Last Friday Constantia Flexibles Group, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, has signed a deal to acquire Spear Group – one of the leading manufacturers of labels globally.

Spee-Dee® Packaging Machinery’s testing lab can simulate production runs, giving customers assurance that their product will meet desired fill rates and accuracies. The goal of the test lab is to duplicate a customer’s specific application by demonstrating that Spee-Dee equipment will fill and perform as expected.