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NEWS CLIPS uInternational Paper, Memphis, TN, will invest about $10 million to convert its mill in Bastrop, LA, to 100% market and fluff pulp production. Equipment upgrades are expected to be completed by the fall of 2008. The mill will cease production of uncoated freesheet as well as other specialty papers. uDow Chemical Co., Midland, MI, and its affiliates announce off-schedule price increases for acrylic acid and esters, effective globally April 1, or as otherwise allowed by individual contract terms. uBobst Group North America, Roseland, NJ, reports that InTouch direct customer connection now is available to customers in Canada. The service allows customers to check parts availability, receive instant pricing, order parts, and track parts orders 24/7. uDynagram, Quebec City, QC, Canada, announces an OEM distribution agreement with HighWater Designs, Cheltenham, England, a provider of violet metal CtP solutions. Under the terms, HighWater will offer Dynagram’s inpO2 imposition products along with Highwater’s family of CtP solutions. uExtrusion Dies Industries (EDI), Chippewa Falls, WI, buys a facility near its headquarters for a new Technology Center, to include labs for developing die systems and for renting to processors and converters to use in product development and process testing. uAdvanced Vision Technology, Hod-Hasharon, Israel, completes 2007 with a 40% increase in revenues to US $39.9 million, compared with US $28.5 million in 2006. uHP, Palo Alto, CA, received the NAPL 2007 Industry Award for contributions to the advancement of the graphic arts industry. uKodak, Rochester, NY, breaks ground on a 16,000-sq-ft expansion of its plate production facility in Columbus, GA. A third production line will meet the need for digital plates. uChesapeake Corp., Richmond, VA, dedicated a new, 36,000-sq-ft pharmaceutical paperboard packaging plant in Kunshan, China, offering design service and housing equipment for digital platemaking, digital label printing, high-gloss varnishing, foil stamping, and laminating. What’s happening at your company? Send your news to yolanda.simonsis@penton.com. said gets preference on Wal-Mart shelves, advertising space, etc., as a result of being a “greener” package. “Wal-Mart is the biggest driver of this in the world,” he said. In the session titled “On the Radar By Deborah Donberg, Assoc. Managing Editor Screen,” Jim Kyger of PIA/GATF talked about HR issues; Doreen M. Monteleone, INDIANAPOLIS, IN | Sustainability is on the agenda FTA, addressed health and safety; and Gary at almost every industry meeting these days, Jones, director of Environmental, Health, but it was the agenda at the recent National and Safety Affairs for PIA/GATF, reported Environmental Health & Safety Conference. the EPA agenda today is very active and is Subtitled, “Green Pathways to Sustainability,” on the verge of making a significant decithe event was held March 10–12 at the sion on ozone standards. He also said EPA Sheraton in Indianapolis, IN. is expected to publish a draft of greenhouse The conference was sponsored by gas reporting regulations within nine months Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts and to have final regs in place by June 2009. Technical Assn. (PIA/GATF), Foundation The event included a tabletop exhibition; of Flexographic Technical Assn. (FFTA), the breakout sessions on inks and solvents, carbon Newspaper Assn. of America, and the Specialty footprint calculations, and HR issues; and a Graphic Imaging Assn. training session. Approximately 200 atThree associations tendees listened to talks handed out awards at a on issues specific to printluncheon on March 11. ing and converting techThe FTA honored Metro nology, as well as those adLabel Co., Toronto, QC, dressing human resources, Canada, for process implant safety, training, provement, and Plastics ergonomics, and more. Packaging, Hickory, NC, Mark DiVito of Reed for innovative technolBusiness Information ogy; C&H Packaging, offered the first keynote Merrill, WI, received address, reporting the honorable mention. results of a research study Gary Miller, director benchmarking the state of of PNEAC (Printers’ sustainability in the printNational Environmental ing industry. The research, Assistance Center), sponsored by Day Intl. Champaign, IL, prePFFC’s associate managing editor, and Xerox, was the third sented Paper, Film & Foil Deborah Donberg, accepts the wave of study, with prior Converter an award for “Publication of the Year” award from waves conducted within Publication of the Year for PNEAC director Gary Miller on behalf of the packaging industry. our September 2007 issue the entire PFFC staff. DiVito said the newest featuring “green convertstudy found very little ing.” Miller said, “This is difference between the printing and packaging truly a reference document on the environment industries on this topic. One big difference, and not only for the printing industry.” however, was the importance of Wal-Mart as an The William D. Schaeffer Environmental environmental leader: In the packaging studies, Award from PIA/GATF went to Robert Wal-Mart had huge numbers, whereas in the Birkland, president of Cirrus Consulting printing study, respondents were much more Group, Dallas, PA, an engineer who, among fragmented in their responses. other environmental achievements, worked Brian Shuttleworth, director of global operaon the original Clean Air Act. Birkland chaltional risk management and sustainability at lenged attendees to get involved with their H.J. Heinz Co., gave a second keynote speech. In communities to foster sustainability. addition to agricultural sustainability programs Birkland was introduced by last year’s related to growing tomatoes around the world, Schaeffer award winner, Stuart McMichael, Heinz has lightweighting projects underway for former president of Custom Print. McMichael packaging and partners with its major suppliers spoke with emotion about preserving our “fragfor ways to improve sustainability. ile earth.” He said we can do it and be successGetting back to Wal-Mart, Shuttleworth ful in business. The key is common sense. brought up the famous scorecard, using as an For more information visit example P&G’s condensed detergent, which he www.nehsconference.org. Conference Makes Green the Goal 18 | APRIL 2008 WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM http://www.nehsconference.org http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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