FTA Accepting Entries for Sustainability Excellence Awards

BOHEMIA, NY – Dec. 5, 2014 – Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), the world’s leading professional society dedicated to promoting and advancing the flexographic print process, is pleased to announce it is accepting entries for the 2015 Sustainability Excellence Awards competition. Formerly known as the Environmental Excellence Award, this competition now encompasses all three pillars of … Continued

Kodak Sets New Company Structure With Five Business Divisions

ROCHESTER, NY—Kodak has established a new organizational structure to make the company faster moving, more competitive and more entrepreneurial. The company will have five market focused business divisions: Print Systems, Enterprise Inkjet Systems, Micro 3D Printing and Packaging, Software and Solutions, and Consumer and Film. These divisions will be end to end operating units with … Continued

Maxcess to Acquire Fives North American Guiding

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK—Maxcess International, a global leader in innovative products and services for the web handling industry, has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the Guiding Systems Business from Fives North American Combustion, Inc. Headquartered in Cleveland, OH, the Fives North American Guiding Systems Business will integrate with Fife Guiding Systems, under Bertram Capital owned … Continued

Rotoflex Announces New Die Cutting Design

ST. LOUIS, MO—Responding to converter demand for more streamlined finishing workflows and increased productivity, Rotoflex has redesigned its well known DSI die cutting platform to be a smaller footprint machine which is faster and more responsive to today’s changing production requirements. A powerful contributor to this redesign is the incorporation of servo drives into the … Continued

Lead Lasers Announces Addition to FlexoStar Anilox System

TILBURG, The Netherlands—Recently, Lead Lasers introduced several new variants and updates of its Direct Laser Engraving (DLE) systems. Flexostar Printmaster Myriad—The world’s first laser engraving machine, which combines flexo and anilox engraving Flexostar Printmaster HYBRID—Combines two laser types (CO2 + YAG) which engrave simultaneously Flexostar IMAGE TwinFlex and Printmaster TwinFlex—Combines two YAG lasers which engrave simultaneously This month, … Continued

FTA Opens Registrations for its 2015 Annual Forum & INFO*FLEX Exhibition

BOHEMIA, NY – Dec. 2, 2014 – Registration is now open for Flexographic Technical Association’s (FTA) 2015 Annual Forum & INFO*FLEX Exhibition, which will take place in Nashville, TN. Forum, themed “Hitting the Perfect Harmony” is scheduled for May 3-6 at the all-new Omni Nashville Hotel. Adjacent to that, the 2015 INFO*FLEX Exhibition, themed “Imagine Tomorrow, … Continued

FLXON Inc. Announces Customer Priority Service Hot Lines

CHARLOTTE, NC—FLXON Inc. announces the establishment of a new Customer Priority Service at its operational headquarters in Charlotte, NC. This new service is staffed by a knowledgeable team of bilingual specialists able to process inquiries related to products and services offered by the company. In addition, customers now have direct access via two new Priority … Continued

Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific Partners With Nordmeccanica

HAWTHORN, Australia—Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific’s (AFAP) journey in partnering with world leading machine suppliers and identifying preferred suppliers for each category made another significant step forward when the flexibles leader signed a preferred vendor agreement with world class lamination machines supplier, Nordmeccanica, on Nov 18. The partnership between AFAP and Nordmeccanica will allow both industry … Continued

Anderson & Vreeland Announces Holiday Sales Event

BRYAN, OH—Anderson & Vreeland launched a special holiday sales event on Dec. 1 that offers substantial savings on best in class flexo materials manufactured by industry leaders including Flint, Toyobo and Rogers Corporation. A&V customers can save 20 percent on select materials including Flint solvent and water wash plates, Toyobo Printight analog and CTP plates, … Continued