Narrow Web & Label Reporter

Published: January 01, 2011

• Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, earns the 2010 Environmental Leadership Award for Technical Innovation from Tag & Label Mfrs. Inst. (TLMI), Gloucester, MA.

• TLMI and the National Assn. for Printing Leadership (NAPL) Paramus, NJ, form a strategic alliance through which NAPL will provide Business Advisory Services and business leadership information to TLMI members.

• Luxembourg-based Flint Group builds a manufacturing site for packaging and narrow web inks in Savli (near Baroda) in India.

• Charlotte, NC-based tesa tape is an official supplier to the US Bobsled/Skeleton Federation Team as the team's sole adhesive tape provider.

• Mark Andy, St. Louis, MO, reports 12 Performance Series P5 flexo presses have been sold to converters in Indonesia, Venezuela, Sweden, France, and the US.

• Australia-based Hally Labels wins Best in Show at the LATMA (Label and Tag Mfg. Assn. Australia) Print Awards for the Coles Finest Lamb and Fetta Sausages P3 label.

• Sweden-based Grafotronic signs a distribution agreement with Matik, West Hartford, CT, to sell and service its label finishing machines in the US and Canada.

• Rotoflex, St. Louis, MO, moves its R&D team into a new technology center in Toronto, ON, Canada.

• FLEXcon, Spencer, MA, wins an American Inhouse Design Award from Graphic Design USA in the Internet category for its redesigned website.

• Prism, Wilmington MA, installs WIN MIS/ERP software systems at three South African printers: First Impression Labels, Gemprint, and Atlas Printers.

• UPM Raflatac, Tampere, Finland, donates e50,000 through a global exercise campaign for the well-being of children.