N.V. Business Publishers Corporation (with offices in New Jersey and Illinois) is truly the only trade journal specialist that serves the worldwide corrugated and folding carton industries with separate publications. The company is fully integrated with publishing, design, reproduction and origination. N.V. produces a selection of magazines (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and bi-monthly) exclusively covering every aspect of the Corrugated, Folding Carton, Flexographic Printing, and Recycling industries. An added extension for our worldwide publications is our affiliate in England, Brunton Publications, Ltd.
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The explosion of e-commerce in the last decade has caused consum- er packaged goods (CPG) compa- nies to rethink day-to-day processes across their entire enterprise, ac- cording to the Omnichannel Retail - Operating Harmoniously in an Integrated Digitally Enabled Sup- ply Chain white paper from PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. In the United States, online sales are growing 15 percent a year, com- pared to just a 1.5 percent increase in overall retail sales, as reported by McKinsey.The U.S. Chamber of Com- merce reported Q1 2019 online sales as 10.2 percent of total retail sales, with the market share rising steadily quarter after quarter. With omnichannel, the challenges are even more complex. Omnichan- nel has come to mean a fully inte- grated approach to e-commerce and refers to a multiple channel model of selling products. First and fore- most, companies within the omni-
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People & Places Anderson & Vreeland Jessica Harrell has been named Director of Technologies for Ander- son & Vreeland Inc., a manufacturer of flexographic print technologies, equipment and consumables. Harrell will be moving from her cur- rent position as Technologies Manag- er, where her main responsibility has been leading the Technologies Team
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McDowell Label & Screen Printing ; Moroccan Nights. Multi-Process - Pressure Sensitive - Excludes Wine & Spirits - Line & Screen Tone - Prime. McDowell Label & Screen Printing ; Go To Black. Multi-Process - Non-Pressure Sensitive - Line & Screen Tone - Prime. McDowell Label & Screen Printing ; Sahara Jewel. Multi-Process - Non-Pressure Sensitive - Color Process - Prime. McDowell Label & Screen Printing ; Deviously Black. Roll to Roll - Includes Shrink Sleeve - Single Printing Method - Line - Prime. Second PlaceWinners Schreiner Group L.P. ; Sun Label. Flexography - Ex- cludes Wine & Spirits - Line - Non-Prime. Outlook Group ; Forbidden Root Strawberry Basil. Flexography - ExcludesWine & Spirits - Color Process - Prime. ASL Print FX ; Serenity Sauvignon Blanc. Flexogra- phy or Letterpress - Wine & Spirits- Line - Prime. McDowell Label & Screen Printing ; Small Batch. Flexography or Letterpress - Wine & Spirits - Line - Non-Prime. Multi-Color Corporation North America Wine
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Schreiner Group L.P. ; Reverse Side Printed La- bel for Emergency Drug Auto Injector. Multi-Process - Pressure Sensitive - Excludes Wine & Spirits - Line - Non-Prime. McDowell Label & Screen Printing ; Double Dip. Multi-Process - Non-Pressure Sensitive - Line & Screen Tone - Prime . Hamillroad Software Names Peret As Bellissima Partner UK-based prepress company Hamillroad Software has extended its network of Bellissima DMS approved technology partners to include Peret GmbH. Peret is a technology provider, creating process con- trol solutions for the prepress, print, and packaging market. Hamillroad Software has approved Peret’s FLEX³PRO and FLEX³XXL-PRO for use with Bellissima DMS as part of the initial plate setup and ongoing qual- ity control processes. Using the FLEX³PRO, prepress and printers can analyze flexographic printing plates after imaging, giving the technician the ability to an- alyze LAMS, photopolymer and elastomer plates, 3D flexo dot shapes, and print samples. The Bellissima DMS Partner Program aims to estab- lish mutually beneficial relationships with providers of complementary products in the printing and graphic arts industries. PACK EXPO Program Feeds More Than 6,000 Kids PACK for a Purpose: Robots Fighting Hunger filled more than 6,000 bags of kid-friendly, nutritious food for children facing food insecurity at this year’s PACK EXPO Las Vegas and Healthcare Packaging EXPO, Sep- tember 23-25. The first-of-its-kind collaboration be- tween show producer PMMI,The Association for Pack- aging and Processing Technologies, and Blessings in a Backpack, incorporated exhibitor supplied robots that demonstrated various automated capabilities while picking and filling bags with food. The initiative was part of the new show floor destina- tion, the Robotics Zone. The filled bags were donated to Blessings in a Back- pack programs in Las Vegas, Nevada; Chicago, Illinois; and Reston,Virginia, to feed school-aged children over the weekends. Following on the success of the PACK EXPO Las Vegas collaboration, PMMI and Blessings in a Backpack will again collaborate at PACK EXPO East, March 3-5, 2020; Pennsylvania Convention Center, Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Royston Labels Adds Fourth Nilpeter FA-4* Press Royston Labels, located just south of Cambridge, England, has purchased a new Nilpeter FA-4* with multi-layer capabilities, bringing its Nilpeter press total to four.The new FA-4* will be utilized for the produc- tion of high-end drinks and personal care labels.
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E-Commerce (Cont’d from Page 1) channel supply chain must adapt to orders coming in from many disparate channels.According to the PMMI white paper, omnichannel companies must become proficient at managing and fulfilling orders simultane- ously from many sources,which could include a direct online portal, vendor requests, third-party warehouse and drop-ship orders. A high level of integration is one of the defining traits of all omnichannel companies. To succeed, omnichannel companies must manage shorter pro- duction cycles, keep track of inventory levels across numerous locations and vendors, track packages accurately and externally in real-time and process a high volume of returns. Companies stepping into the omnichannel universe need to innovate new packaging configurations that are suitable for this new type of distribution, as well as automate new processes to improve efficiency and create new data collection points. They are fac- ing external pressures from retailers, industry peers and consumers to minimize packaging and prevent product damage.These companies continually look to collaborate with partners to forge operating models and solutions, while communicating with customers to provide a seamless, repeatable and integrated shop- ping experience. As they pursue omnichannel strategies, 71 percent of companies interviewed for the report agreed the biggest impact was on software and enterprise sys- tems, while half of these companies report the need for modifications to their existing systems. Sourcing the needed advancements to support the omnichannel can be challenging, according to the white paper. PACK EXPO East 2020, to be held March 3-5 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania will provide an opportunity to take a more focused approach to explore packaging solutions and systems needed to support this growing sector. Avery Dennison Receives ISO Certification Avery Dennison has received ISO 17025 accreditation for its Mentor, Ohio, Innovation Center for the third year in a row. The Center was originally accredited in June 2017. ISO 17025 certification covers 55 labora- tory tests, conducted at the facility, for adhesives and pressure sensitive films and label materials.The Center’s accreditation means that suppliers who purchase from Avery Dennison do not have to locate and work with a third-party ISO 17025 laboratory for testing.
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The AICC held its Southwest Summit, October 22-23, at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas. Southwest Re- gion Director Eric Elgin and his wife Julie of Oklahoma Interpak welcomed nearly 40 attendees at theTuesday evening reception.The program kicked offWednesday morning with AICC President Mike D’Angelo provid- ing an overview of AICC activities and programming. Next, Dan Pascale of Margolis Healy and Associates gave a presentation titled Securing Your Workplace . Pascale, a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), out-
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lined what an organizational security landscape looks like; how to identify the types of threats there are in the workplace; the challenges to implementing an ef- fective security program; how to conduct a self-assess- ment of a facility; a review of specific recommenda- tions and how to put it all together. The next presentation was given by Kendrick Jones of Kivu Consulting entitled Cyber Security in a Man- ufacturing Environment – Best Practices . Jones, an Analyst in Cyber Risk Management, took the audience through in-plant hardware that can be the source of cyber threats;visited each department on the manufac- turing floor from design, to production, assembly and shipping. He asked the attendees to ask themselves “Where’s my information?” He closed by presenting several ransomware scenarios and how all forms of cy- ber-attack are on the rise. Attendees then took a tour of the Smurfit Kappa Ex- perience Center in nearby Irving,Texas. Jeroen Dank- baar,Director of Innovation & Development, led a tour of the Experience Center,which provides Smurfit Kap- pa designers and customers with several experiential opportunities from a fully equipped testing lab to an augmented reality retail environment and an eye track- ing preferences station.
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FLXON Dan Foy has joined as the Print Im- provement Team at FLXON as Tech- nical Sales Engineer for the Central U.S. region; an area that includes the states of: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, New Mexi- co and Colorado. Apex Phill Rogers has been appointed Market Area Sales Manager in Ireland and the UK for Apex. Rogers has approximately 20 years of experience in the flexographic industry within the UK. In that time he has occupied various positions ranging from production, operations, commercial and sales and technical support. Hybrid Software Hybrid Software has promoted Mike Agness to Executive Vice President for the Americas, responsible for all sales and operations in North and South America. People & Places
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