People & Places
Anderson & Vreeland Avery Speight has joined Anderson & Vreeland as Technologies Special- ist. In his new position, Speight will provide technical support for Ander- son & Vreeland customers through- out the United States and Canada. Speight comes from Central Pied- mont Community College in Char- lotte, North Carolina, with a heavy focus on flexographic printing and the optimization process for f lexo prepress & platemaking. He was lead narrow web flexo press operator for Avery Speight
multiple volunteer projects and com- petitions such as the Phoenix Chal- lenge, where his team won for Graphics & Execution in 2016.
Flint Rico Hagedorn has been named Senior Manager Technical Services Plates for Flint Group Flexographic Products. Since joining Flint Group in 2011, Hagedorn has been part of the technical ser- vice team for printing plates. Rico Hagedorn
AVT Matt Bennett has been named Pres- ident of the Americas for AVT. Bennett will manage and execute all sales, marketing and customer support activities for AVT in the Americas.
Matt Bennett
UPM Raflatac Completes Labelcote Assets Acquisition UPM Raflatac has completed its acquisition of se- lected assets of the South African labelstock distribu- tor Labelcote. UPM Raflatac will continue to operate the formerly Labelcote-owned slitting and distribu- tion terminal in Johannesburg. In addition to the new Johannesburg terminal, UPM Raflatac currently has sales and terminal operations in Pinetown in the Dur- ban area and Cape Town in South Africa. Tiger Packaging, known by its trading name Label- cote, is a South African business specializing in the slitting and distribution of pressure-sensitive label- stock and tag materials.
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