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Avery Dennison Materials Group (NYSE:AVY) has recognized nine pressure-sensitive industry suppliers during the company’s second supplier recognition ceremony, which was held at the Materials Group’s European Headquarters in the Leiden Bio Science Park in Oegstgeest, Netherlands on March 24. Winners were selected based on their performance in areas such as sustainability, innovation, service, overall value and quality.

Davis-Standard’s Rich Kanarski has been nominated to the SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) Board, Extrusion Division where he will serve as one of two  young professionals on the 20-member board to support efforts in member services, including recruitment and outreach activities for others who are new to the extrusion industry. 

Printers’ Service (Prisco), has announced a major enhancement to the company's sales organization.

Avery Dennison has filed a lawsuit in Germany against UPM Raflatac asserting that Raflex MDO infringes European Patent Number 2 049 333 B1, Avery Dennison’s patent on its Global MDO^TM pressure-sensitive film product.

Rick Keller has been promoted to Davis-Standard vice president of extrusion coating and solution coating.

CDF Corp. has hired Jay Waltz to join the company as vice president of sales.

The crowds of attendees and the clamor of working equipment that filled the giant exhibit halls at NPE2015 told the story better than numbers, but now there are statistics to make it official: NPE2015 was the largest show in NPE history.

Apex has made the strategic decision to drop “Group of Companies” from its name. Moving forward, the organization will be known both internally and externally as Apex International.

Acknowledging over 30 years of achievements in the ink industry, the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers (NAPIM) bestowed a Printing Ink Pioneer Award to INX International Ink Co. executive Jim Bailen at its Centennial Convention’s awards and black tie dinner, held March 23 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.