PFFC - January 2008 - (Page 17) What’s happening at your company? Send your news to yolanda.simonsis@penton.com. NEWS CLIPS ARLINGTON, VA | The Packaging Machinery Mfrs. Inst. (PMMI), has a new membership category for materials and containers suppliers. Explains Chuck Yuska, PMMI president and CEO, “The end-user community is looking for total system solutions from its packaging suppliers, and PMMI will bring all of the supplier groups together within the trade association umbrella to foster collaboration and innovation development. There isn’t a single package that is brought to market today that doesn’t have package design, machinery, and components working together. The common thread between the groups is their strong focus on manufacturing.” For more information visit www.pmmi.org. IP, Memphis Aid Recycling MEMPHIS, TN | International Paper is partnering with the city of Memphis, Friends of City Beautiful, and FCR of Tennessee in the All Aboard campaign to broaden the scope of recycling in the city. Through this effort, the city added corrugated packaging and paperboard packaging to its list of acceptable recyclable items in the curbside recycling program. IP says paper, corrugated, cardboard, and paperboard packaging materials are by volume the largest component of Memphis’s waste sent to the landfill, but the All Aboard campaign will help the city lessen its environmental footprint by recovering these items. PMMI Adds New Category Harper Tour Is a Success CHARLOTTE, NC | Harper GraphicSolutions has wrapped its latest Harper Flexographic Solutions Tour, reporting it was the most successful and best-attended in its history. At six one-day events, 471 flexo industry professionals attended free educational symposiums where company staff and co-suppliers presented troubleshooting guidance in fields ranging from inks to platemaking, prepress, anilox issues, and more. Don’t Just Change Your Blades. Change Your Expectations. AT O W RK ONEONTA, NY | Apple Converting was happy with the superior printing and higher-speed coating it experienced after the recent installation of a Cerutti nine-color, 47-in. gravure press at its Oneonta facility. But the flexible packaging converter wanted the further ability to track and optimize every key stage in the printing process, minimizing waste and ensuring the best possible quality. To that end, Apple added the Autotron Packaging 2600 Register Guidance System from QuadTech. The system, designed for maximum quality, flexibility, and waste reduction, offers features for both shaftless and conventionally driven presses. According to Apple Converting, the QuadTech system makes short work of jobs such as printing pale colors and low-contrast varnishes on challenging substrates. uQuadTech | www.quadtechworld.com PFFC-ASAP 317 Register System Makes New Press Even Better Engineered to outlast standard steel blades. www.specialtyblades.com • 800-252-3371 uCerutti Group | www.cerutti.it PFFC-ASAP 318 Fewer blade changes • Lower long-term costs • Less blade handling • Cleaner cuts PFFC-ASAP 112 JANUARY 2008 | 17 WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM http://www.pmmi.org http://www.specialtyblades.com http://www.quadtechworld.com http://www.cerutti.it http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM
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