Pioneer Plates has joined forces with Flexo Artworks to form a joint venture offering comprehensive prepress and platemaking solution options to the North American flexographic printing market.
INX has begun a $7 million expansion on its Research & Development complex in West Chicago, Illinois. The project is expected to be completed in July 2018 and will more than double the facility’s current space, bringing it to about 56,000 square feet.
Roll-2-Roll Technologies LLC has introduced a new line of retrofit kits for displacement, steering and unwind/rewind web guiding systems, thereby allowing converters to keep mechanical components and upgrade sensors, actuators and controllers with the ARIS kit. The ARIS line enables a calibration free guiding solution.
Uflex’s Flexfresh liner bag has been accredited by Indian Council of Agricultural Research – National Research Centre on Pomegranate (ICAR-NRCP), marking a big development in active modified atmospheric packaging.
The Institute of Packaging Professionals has announced the 2017 recipients of scholarships from its Packaging Education Scholarship Fund, which supports students headed for careers in the packaging field.
Capping off an unprecedented year of record-breaking events in the PACK EXPO Portfolio of Trade Shows, PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2017 welcomed nearly 1,000 more attendees than 2015, making it the largest PACK EXPO Las Vegas in history. Preliminary numbers reveal about 29,500 attendees and 2,000 exhibiting companies convened over almost 900,000 net square feet of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Oak Creek, Wisconsin-based Seville Flexpack Corporation has been acquired by Germany-based Südpack Verpackungen GmbH und Co. KG, one of Europe's leading providers of flexible packaging solutions.
MPS Systems North America, in partnership with Green Bay Packaging Coated Products Operations, Kodak, EMT International and RotoControl, is hosting a Flexo Innovation Open House Oct. 26 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.