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• CONVERTING Magazine Names 2007 Innovator Award Winners

  - 2007-11-12

  Winners Recognized for Charitable Work; Details At www.convertingmagazine.com OAK BROOK, Ill. -- CONVERTING Magazine (www.convertingmagazine.com) announces the winners of its 2007 Innovator Awards, which recognize converting and package-printing companies that are "doing well by doing good" for their customers, their employees, their communities and the world at large. The...

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• WS Packaging GROUP (Converting Magazine)

  - 2007-09-01

  Algoma, WI-based labelmaking giant WS Packaging Group expands print capabilities for foils, metallized labels, folding-carton stocks and synthetics with a new six-color Komori Lithrone 40 (www.komori.com ) sheetfed-offset press above. The equipment is now the second Lithrone 40 in the converter's Oak Creek, WI, facility. ...

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• Labelmaker multi-color buys new Omet flexo-gravure combination press (Converting Magazine)

  - 2007-08-01

  Cincinnati-based labelmaker Multi-Color Corp. (www.multicolorcorp.com ) purchases what reportedly will be the first combination flexographic/gravure press in the US to expand its printing capabilities and provide added flexibility to meet demands for customized decorating solutions. Manufactured by Omet of Lecco, Italy (www.omet.it ), the wide-format press will be configured with...

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• Labelmaker southern coating installs finecut laser cutter (Converting Magazine)

  - 2007-08-01

  Southern Coating & Nameplate, Inc. (www.southerncoating.com ), a global ID-graphics manufacturer located in North Little Rock, AR, launches into tool-free cutting with its newly acquired Spartanics Finecut laser-cutting system (www.spartan ics.com ). The equipment lets Southern Coating create both small and large intricate die-cut...

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• CONVERTING Magazine Names 2006 Innovator Award Winners

  - 2006-11-20

  Honors Companies "Doing Well by Doing Good" OAKBROOK, Ill. -- CONVERTING Magazine announces the winners of its 2006 Innovator Awards, which recognize the achievements of converting and package-printing companies that are "doing well by doing good" for their customers, their employees, their communities and their markets. The inaugural winners...

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• Hit the ground Shopping (Converting Magazine)

  - 2005-01-01

  While it isn't quite like the swallows returning to Capistrano, converters feel the call to come to Chicago in spring every two years. According to CMM International organizers, there should be a few more of them this year than in 2003, and there will certainly be more for them to...

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• Frontline (Converting Magazine)

  - 2004-12-01

  First Impression Staff The Flexographic Technical Assn. FTA, Ronkonkoma, NY, commissions its first market research study focusing on the flexible packaging segment of the flexo-printing industry. The goal of FTA's...

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• Industry veteran Markgraf retires (Converting Magazine)

  - 2004-12-01

  David A. Markgraf, senior vp of surface-treatment equipment supplier Enercon Industries Corp., Menomonee Falls, WI, will retire from the company at the end of the year. A long-time converting- and packaging-industry veteran, Markgraf has been involved with the surface-energy characterization and enhancement of paper, extruded-coated...

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• Organizer: ICE 2005 already larger than 2003 (Converting Magazine)

  - 2004-12-01

  Twenty recent orders for booth space at next year's ICE 2005 trade fair means the event now has more sq ft of exhibit space reserved than at ICE 2003, says organizer Nimble Shows & Media GmbH. Dates for ICE 2005: Nov. 22-24, 2005, at the M,O,C, Ctr. in Munich, Germany....

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• K 2004: Signs of positive times ahead (Converting Magazine)

  - 2004-12-01

  Last fall's K 2004 trade fair for the global plastics and rubber industries, held at the Dusseldorf Fairgrounds in Germany, showed plenty of signs pointing to positive economic times ahead. A total of 2,914 exhibitors were there to greet some 230,000 industry professionals from more than 100 countries, says show...

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