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January 11, 2016
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Fortis Acquires Smithfield Plant Serving The Flexographic Printing Industry In Print and Online at www.nvpublications.com Amcor Acquires Deluxe Packages by Greg Kishbaugh
Fortis Solutions Group acquired Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s label print- ing plant. The plant, based outside of Kansas City, Missouri, provides pressure sensitive prime, promo- tional and thermal labels to a num- ber of Smithfield Foods facilities as well as third party customers. It will operate under the Fortis Solutions Group name. Sun Chemical Acquires Colmar Sun Chemical has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire cer- tain assets and liabilities of Colmar Inks Corporation based in Ontario, Canada. Colmar’s customer lists, contracts, and finished inventory will be in- cluded in the acquisition. The trans- action is expected to close during the first quarter in 2016. Colmar is a manufacturer of liquid inks and coatings for the corrugat- ed and paper packaging market as well as specialty inks for the rod coatings market.
A new year has just begun and the packaging industry is al- ready seeing a host of major acquisitions. In one such devel- opment, Amcor, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, has acquired Deluxe Packages,Yuba City, California, a privately owned flexi- ble packaging business, which will form part of the company’s
newly-formed Flexi- bles Americas busi- ness group. Amcor repor tedly paid US$45 million for the business. Deluxe Packages was founded in 1969 when parent company Paper - board Packag ing
Corporation acquired the company in South Gate, California. In 1981, Deluxe Packages acquired Hobar Company in Red- wood, California, as well as the former Milprint plant in South San Francisco. Both of these facilities were combined into the company’s current Yuba City location in 1991. Deluxe Packages has a “superior” rating from the American In- stitute of Baking and utilizes Lean Manufacturing practices. Committed to sustainability, the company said it involves em- ployees, customers and vendors in the common goal of in- creasing environmental responsibility. The company utilizes zero VOC inks and adhesives in its man- ufacturing process and its equipment reportedly incorporates the latest technology for reduced power consumption. The company established an aggressive internal recycling
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Flint Group confirmed the acquisition of Xeikon, a digital solutions provider to the packaging and com- mercial printing markets. Xeikon’s products and services will now form the foundation of a newly created division to be called Flint Group Digital Printing Solutions. Sleeve Label Awards Open For Entries The AWA Sleeve Label Awards, now in its second year, is currently accepting entries until January 29. Devel- oped to recognize the sleeve label industry’s achieve- ments in stretch- and shrink-sleeve labeling and product decoration, the 2016 Awards are open to all participants in the value chain — designers, film pro- ducers, printers/converters, end users/brand owners. Selected by an independent judging panel of indus- try experts, this year’s AWA Sleeve Label Awards win- ners will be announced at a special awards ceremony during the 2016 AWA International Sleeve Label Con- ference & Exhibition to be held in Denver, Colorado, on March 3-4. Awards will be presented for best sleeve label, heat shrink TD sleeves, stretch sleeves, roll-fed MD shrink
CCL Acquires Mabel’s Labels
CCL Industries has acquired Mabel’s Labels and Mabel’s Labels Retail, privately owned companies with common shareholders based in Ontario, Cana- da, which it will integrate into its Avery segment. Mabel’s Labels is a North American brand for durable, personalized identification labels for chil- dren and families. The debt-free, all-cash purchase consideration, subject to customary closing condi- tions, is approximately $12 million. Actega WIT, Actega Kelstar Merge Actega WIT and Actega Kelstar, manufacturers of inks, coatings and adhesives for packaging and print- ing markets, have merged to form Actega North America.
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including food, medicine, consumer durables, rubber, and petroleum. Benefits associated with corrugated packaging such as sustainability and low cost makes it one of the preferred modes of packaging across various industries. Emerging markets offer tremen- dous growth opportunities for the corrugated pack- aging market due to increasing population and growing demand for consumer products in these re- gions. The e-commerce industry has emerged as one of the key drivers for the global corrugated packag- ing market. This is primarily because corrugated packaging is the most reliable form of packaging products in this industry. FLEXcon Renews SGP Platinum Patron Sponsorship FLEXcon, Sayville, New York, has renewed its Plat- inum sponsorship of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP). SGP’s mission is to encourage and promote partici- pation in the worldwide movement to reduce envi- ronmental impact and increase social responsibility of the graphic communications industry. FLEXcon participated in the second annual SGP Community Gathering at the Ritz Carlton in Atlanta, Georgia.The event brought together buyers, printers and suppli- ers within the print industry to discuss, debate and learn about sustainability trends.
The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, serving as Secretariat to the International Color Consortium (ICC), has an- nounced that the 2016 call for proposals from gradu- ate students seeking funding for their color imaging research is now open. Each year, the ICC awards funds for original re- search that serves to further the organization’s goal of creating, promoting and encouraging the standard- ization and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architec- ture and components. The submission deadline is April 15. Corrugated Market Expected To Show 4% Growth According to a new market report published by Persistence Market Research Global Market Study on Corrugated Packaging: Glassware and ceramics application to witness highest growth by 2020 , the global corrugated packaging market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 4.0 per- cent during 2014 to 2020, to reach an estimated $173.6 million by 2020. The corrugated packaging market is reportedly thriving mainly due to growing end-user industries,
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Stora Enso To Increase Stake In Inpac Packaging To 90% Stora Enso announced it would increase the owner- ship in its subsidiary Inpac Packaging in China. The company currently holds a majority stake of 51 per- cent and plans to raise it to reach 90 percent. Stora Enso puts the purchase price at approximately € 46m. The transaction is subject to approval by Chinese authorities and is expected to be finalized during the first quarter of the year. Stora Enso Inpac offers fibre-based packaging solu- tions with design, production, sales and R&D ser- vices. The company has production units in Qian’an, Dongguan and Jiashan in China with a workforce of 2,400 and serves global and local brand owners. In June last year, Stora Enso parted with an Inpac plant in Chennai in India and exited the Indian packaging market. The Chennai plant used to produce transport and consumer packaging made out of corrugated board. Workflow Tools For Packaging Continue To Expand InfoTrends has completed its market research study entitled The Future of Digital Packaging Workflows , whose focus is the global packaging market’s use of software tools to enhance production of all printed packaging. Taking into account all relevant software seg- ments, global sales of workflow software for pack- aging topped $1 billion worldwide in 2015, and that total is climbing steadily in all regions, according to InfoTrends. “There’s a lot going on in terms of workflow for packaging,” said Robert Leahey, Associate Director at InfoTrends and a senior advisor for the new research, “and a big future for tools that enhance it.” As evidence, he cited the trend among brands in all regions to order packaging more frequently and in smaller amounts, to customize marketing and make operations more efficient, in turn making workflow more challenging. Graphic Packaging Completes G-Box Acquisition Graphic Packaging International Holdings Mexico, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Graphic Packaging Hold- ing Company, has completed the previously an- nounced acquisition of G-Box, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican folding carton producers. G-Box has folding carton converting plants in Mon- terrey and Tijuana, Mexico.
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Smurfit Kappa Enters Brazilian Packaging Market Smurfit Kappa has acquired two integrated paper- based packaging businesses, Industria de Embalagens Santana and Paema Embalagens, based in Brazil, for a total consideration of approximately $186 million. Both INPA and Paema are privately owned integrat- ed packaging businesses. The combined operations have three recycled containerboard mills with a total capacity of 210,000 tons and four corrugated facili- ties servicing the Northeast of Brazil, through the Rio and Sao Paulo regions and the South of the country. The combined business employs more than 1,700 people and the group currently expects to generate syn- ergies of approximately $6 million by the end of 2017, primarily through operational improvements and sup- ply chain optimization as the businesses are integrated.
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Pamarco To Sponsor Print UV Conference
Pamarco will be a sponsor for the 2016 Print UV Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from March 16-18.The conference reportedly provides an oppor- tunity to learn from those printers that have experi- enced the process of converting to UV printing.
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Protective Packaging To Continue Strong Growth A new report from market research firmThe Freedo- nia Group predicts demand for protective packaging in the United States is forecast to expand 4.9 percent per year to $6.8 billion in 2019, bolstered by strong gains in Internet shopping. According to Protective Packaging, as consumers purchase more products on- line, demand will increase for packaging that can pro- tect these goods from shock, vibration, abrasion, and other damaging effects of shipping and handling. The study says environmental concerns will bring about a number of changes for protective packaging. Rigid protective packaging products are expected to post healthy gains as molded pulp and paperboard protectors both benefit from a less variable pricing structure and trends toward sustainability.
Clondalkin Takes Home EFTA Award
Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Harlingen won the 2015 award for Technical Innovation at the EFTA- Benelux Flexographic awards for its FleXtreme print- ing technology used to create the packaging for the Bofrost “Suppengemüse” brand.
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Clemson Clemson has named two seniors, Dustin Merritt and Rebecca Brown, as Packaging Science Outstanding Se- niors for the Fall semester 2015 at Clemson University. Dustin Merritt is a student veteran, given the oppor- tunity of serving as a member of the Commander-in- Chief ’s Guard in the Army’s 3rd U.S. Infantr y Established in 1994 in Memphis, Tennessee, Cyber Graphics is a privately owned pre-media and media provider, currently employing more than 110 people at four North American sites. The Cyber Graphics facil- ity in Milwaukee,Wisconsin, offers flexo prepress and technical support.They recently moved from their fa- cility in the suburb of Franklin into a newly remodeled office space in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. People & Places Cyber Graphics Invests In Esko Automation Engine To further automate and streamline its process, Cyber Graphics’ Milwaukee,Wisconsin, facility decid- ed to invest in Esko Automation Engine and support- ing Esko tools.
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Regiment, the official escort to the President of the United States. With interest in physics, chemistry, and engineering, he felt that a degree in Packaging Science at Clemson was the right field for him to be success- ful in his post military career. Merritt completed a co-op with Sealed Air in Duncan, South Carolina, as part of the Product Care R&D team. He also Rebecca Brown is the Dr. Robert F. Testin Packaging Science Outstand- ing Senior for Fall 2015. Brown is a Packaging Science major with a minor in French. For the past six months she has been working on a co-op at Halyard Health, a medical device company formerly known as Kimberly-Clark Healthcare. Over the past four years she has participated in a number of Packaging Science’s
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Adheso-Graphics, Inc. www.adheso-graphics.com AGI manufactures, distributes and converts current technology flexo mounting tapes and backing systems for corrugated plate mounting. Flexstik hard vinyl, Flex- Soft, bi.esse brand, Gold Series Thin tapes for sleeve and Narrow web plate mounting. Specialty tapes that cover the vast thickness range requirements and spe- cific adhesion systems for all flexo mounting require- ments. We provide technical service and problem solving services for unique customers & applications. A&V manufactures a complete line of photopolymer plate processing systems and is a leading distributor of flexographic platemaking materials. A&V also sells digital imaging systems and software specifically de- signed for flexography. Comexi Group Industries S.A.U. www.comexigroup.com The Comexi Group is a leading supplier of quality flexographic C.I. presses for the flexible packaging in- dustry worldwide. We also provide solventless lamina- tors, slitter/rewinders and related peripheral equipment such as automatic wash-up systems, solvent recovery systems, automatic roll unloaders, and plate DuPont Packaging Graphics is the world’s leading supplier of flexographic printing systems in digital and conventional formats; including Cyrel® brand pho- topolymer plates, Cyrel® FAST processing equipment, Cyrel® round sleeves, mounting and finishing prod- ucts. For more than 35 years, beginning with Cyrel®, the first photopolymer printing plate, through to today’s digital workflow revolution, DuPont has been driving innovation in the Flexo and package printing indus- tries. The Digital Cyrel® FAST imaging system has been broadly recognized for its efficiency, productivity, print performance, and environmental benefits. Eaglewood Technologies, LLC www.eaglewoodtech.com Eaglewood Technologies introduces the Sanilox™ Anilox Roll Cleaning System, an innovative, environ- mentally safe system, by the makers of Sani-Blast™ systems. Sanilox™ uses a touch-screen interface to clean rolls in-line or off-line with the simple touch of a button. It can be operated in English or Spanish and monitor roll inventory by entering roll information into the touch-screen interface. Eaglewood Technologies offers cleaning service in your facility, or a ship-in roll cleaning program. Flexo Market News I NTERNET D IRECTORY Anderson & Vreeland, Inc. www.andersonvreeland.com cylinder/sleeve storage systems. DuPont Packaging Graphics www.cyrel.com/na
program and works with its suppliers and customers to design and produce packaging that reduces overall material requirements. Deluxe’s customers include Sun-Maid raisons and prunes, Red Vines licorice and El Monterey Burritos. Deluxe Packages’ products include fresh cut pro- duce packaging with breathable laminations and micro perforations; dual-oven packaging and tray over wraps for frozen food packaging; and many others. Deluxe generates revenues of approximately $42 million. Last summer, Amcor divided its Flexibles Europe and Americas business into two groups — Flexibles Americas and Flexibles Europe, Middle East and Africa. With more than 180 sites, Amcor currently gener- ates close to $10 billion in annual sales. It employs more than 29,000 employees across its operations in 40 countries. The company operates in five business segments, including Amcor PET Packaging; Amcor Australasia; Amcor Flexibles;Amcor Sunclipse; and Amcor Asia. The Flexographic Technical Association’s 2016 An- nual Forum, themed Power of the Past, Force of the Future ,”will begin with discussions from representa- tives of two brands, General Mills, Inc. and Snyder’s Lance Inc. In her presentation, Taking an Active Role in Print Quality Continuous Improvement , Gail Wong, de- sign logistics manager, General Mills will reveal how her company makes it a top priority to review all as- pects of print quality with its partners. Wong will stress the importance of following industry stan- dards, abiding by accepted specifications, adhering to guidelines, and taking advantage of the certification programs currently available to the marketplace. Jay Bradish, procurement manager-graphics and prepress, Snyder’s Lance Inc., will then discuss his company’s Expectations in Print Quality Manage- ment . Bradish will highlight how Snyder’s Lance takes an active role when it comes to reviewing print results—especially for color consistency and quality—across all print partners and all substrates. He’ll also delve into how the final packaging is fur- ther evaluated by teams from Snyder’s Lance’s mar- keting and procurement departments for future strategic planning. FTA’s 2016 Forum is slated for March 6-9 at the Omni Fort Worth in Fort Worth,Texas. Brand Insights To Kick Off FTA Annual Forum
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People & Places SGK Eric Schultz has been appointed Vice President of Business Develop- ment for the Americas region for SGK, a division of Matthews Interna- tional Corporation. Schultz will be responsible for dri- ving business development initia- tives across consumer packaged goods (CPGs), retail and healthcare sectors in the Americas.
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RISI Kari Jordan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Metsä Group, has been named RISI’s 2016 Euro- pean CEO of the Year. RISI will present this award at the European Conference, which will take place in Berlin, Germany from February 29-March 2, 2016.
TLMI The Board of Directors of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) has confirmed that Mark Tib- betts has officially assumed his role as association President. SGP The Sustainable Green Printing Part- nership (SGP) announced the elec-
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tion of its Officers and Board of Directors for 2016. Lynn Krinsky, President, Stella Color, Seattle, Wash- ington, was unanimously elected to serve as Chair, SGP Board of Directors. Newly elected Board Members include: Libra Balian, Ann Inc.; Carlos Lahoz-Buch, HP; John Heaney,Adver- tisers Printing Company; Lou Liotta, Novitex Enter- prise Solutions; Francis Poirier, Jr., Specialty Printing, LLC; Jodi Sawyer, FLEXcon; and Christine Grant, Digi- tal Color Concepts. Paul Lilienthal, Pictura Graphics moves to the Immediate Past Chair position. PolyOne Joel Rathbun has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions for PolyOne, Cleve- land, Ohio. Rathbun previously served as General Manager of PolyOne's Specialty Engineered Materials business in North America. Clondalkin Chris Button has been named Sales Manager for Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury.
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Active, Intelligent Packaging To Surge
Demand for active and intelligent packaging in the United States is forecast to expand 7.3 percent annu- ally to $4.0 billion in 2019, well above the packaging industry average, according to a new a report from Freedonia. Active packaging provides functions beyond prod- uct protection and identification, such as moisture control; intelligent packaging incorporates features that indicate status or communicate product changes and other information.While many active and intelli- gent packaging products, such as packaged desic- cants and volatile corrosion inhibitors, have a well established presence, emerging products include an- timicrobial packaging, advanced time-temperature monitors, and smartphone-enabled interactive pack- aging products.All of these products are expected to see further development over the next decade as food safety concerns and interest in product connec- tivity create a need for products that can more effi- ciently perform related functions. Intelligent packaging demand will see the faster growth, advancing at a double-digit rate and reaching $1.5 billion in 2019 as products such as time-temper- ature indicators and smart labels and tags become more common, according to the report. Active packaging demand is forecast to grow 5.4 percent per year to $2.5 billion in 2019. The Label Printers Supports Mooseheart School Employees of The Label Printers,Aurora, Illinois, held an annual end-of-year fundraising drive for Moose- heart Child City and School, an organization chosen by employees, who also organized the fundraising programs.All of the activities in which employees par- ticipated resulted in the highest amount ever for one of the company’s holiday fundraisers. Packaging Tape Printing Market To Reach $28.78B The Packaging Tape Printing Market size is estimat- ed to grow from $21.42 Billion in 2015 to $28.78 Bil- lion by 2020, at a CAGR of 6.08 percent from 2015 to 2020, according to a new report from Marketsand- Markets called Packaging Tape Printing Market by product type (Hot Melt, Acrylic), Material (Polypropylene, PVC), Printing Ink (Water-based, UV-curable), Mechanism (Digital Printing, Flexog- raphy), End-user industry (Food & Beverages, Con- sumer Durables) - Forecast to 2020 .
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