UPM Raflatac Celebrates 10 Years Of Label Life
Autumn Graphics (CONT’D FROM PAGE 37)
“The plate room staff are enjoying faster exposure times and more consistent plate production,” said Opera- tions Manager Wess Gano, “and are spending much less time calibrating and recalibrating.” He added that addition- al Shine LED Lamp Kits will be installed at other Autumn sites in the future. By utilizing customers’ existing fluorescent exposure frames, the Shine LED Lamp Kit can be retrofitted in the field in a few hours, according to Miraclon, offering users up to 5,000 hours compared to 800 hours for fluorescent tubes. The Shine LED Lamp Kit won top awards for both Sus- tainability and Technical Innovation at this year’s FTA Ex- cellence in Flexography Awards. Autumn Graphics provides converters, printers, agencies and consumer product clients with pre-media production, plate production, brand management, 3D packaging devel- opment and print production technical services. Founded in 1982, the company has been a FLEXCEL NX System user since 2008, having been a beta site for the technology.
Label Life by UPM Raflatac is marking 10 years of its life cycle assessment service. Over the past decade, Label Life has been a comprehensive life cycle assessment tool
for label evalua- tion, reportedly en- abling businesses to make informed, environmentally responsible deci- sions. Continuous- ly evolving to cover an ever-widening portfolio of more sustainable prod-
ucts, Label Life now accounts for more than 90 percent of UPM Raflatac’s commercial portfolio by sales volume. Label Life provides environmental information on label materials, utilizing the standardized method of life cycle assessment (LCA) to calculate their environmental impact from cradle-to-grave. Customers benefit from individual footprints or “product passport prototypes” (PPPs) dis- playing 25 indicators, as well as focused comparisons of three key metrics — greenhouse gas emissions, energy demand, and water consumption.
People & Places FPA Alison Keane, will step down from her position as President & CEO of The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) on August 1, 2024. The organization is initiating a search to identify a new leader. The association is drawing on the steps in its succession plan to guide the process of selecting a new
Alison Keane
President & CEO. It formed a search committee to oversee the process and has retained executive search firm Vetted Solutions to coordinate the search. NextGen Label Group Bob Friedburg has been appointed Vice President of Busi- ness Process Engineering & IT for NextGen Label Group,
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North Syracuse, New York. Friedburg has more than three decades of expe- rience in the label printing industry. Friedberg will lead the charge in optimizing business processes and implementing cutting-edge systems, all while ensuring the security and efficiency of NextGen Label Group’s
Bob Friedburg
network infrastructure. His leadership will be particularly instrumental this year as he spearheads the implementa- tion of the company’s new business system, which aims to improve the overall customer experience.
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