News Clips

Published: February 01, 2010

• Bemis, Neenah, WI, earns top honors for consumer convenience at the 2009 UK Packaging Awards for its EZ Peel reseal package technology. The rigid tray and peelable lid package exposes a p-s layer when the consumer opens the package that recloses with the touch of a finger.

• Harper Corp. of America, Charlotte, NC, earns certification to the ISO 9001:2008 standard.

• Flexographic Technical Assn., Ronkonkoma, NY, calls for entries for its 2010 Technical Innovation Award. Entry deadline is March 5.

• Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation launches its second annual student design competition, challenging students to develop a marketing product to promote Graph Expo 2011.

• Maguire Products, Aston, PA, offers video demonstrations of its purging recovery system at www.maguire.com.

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Washington, DC, releases the new SFI 2010-2014 Standard, which takes effect January 1.

• Unifoil Corp., Fairfield, NJ, launches a rebranding campaign with the debut of a new, modern logo.

• Omnova Solutions, Fairlawn, OH, announces price increases up to $0.05/wet lb for acrylic, styrene acrylic, and vinyl acrylic emulsion polymers effective January 21.

• Society of Vacuum Coaters, Albuquerque, NM, reports the preliminary program for TechCon, which takes place April 17-22, is available online at www.svc.org.

• Consolidated Printing Co., Chicago, IL, is certified by the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership as the first SGP Printer in the state of Illinois.

• FineEye Color Solutions, Grand Rapids, MI, donates and installs its ICEserver color quality optimization system at the Printing Applications Laboratory at Rochester Inst. of Technology, Rochester, NY.

• Fujifilm, Valhalla, NY, creates a new organization, Fujifilm North America Corp., by merging Fujifilm USA and Fujifilm Graphic Systems USA. Fujifilm Canada will become a subsidiary of the new company as of April 1.