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What’s happening at your company? Send your news to yolanda.simonsis@penton.com. REPORTER AT O W Narrow Web & Label Inspection Leads to Quality DEESIDE, WALES | Label manufacturer Systems Labelling has invested in five CHECKpress web inspection systems from Surfscan Technologies. The systems have been installed on four Mark Andy eightcolor 4150 presses and one Comco press. The systems were configured using 200 hr of programming time by Surfscan’s development team to meet the label company’s precise requirements. “Quality lies at the heart of everything we do here,” says Tony Exford, sales director at Systems Labelling. “When I explain to our customers and potential customers the sophistication of the Surfscan system, they are rightly impressed. By Systems Labelling managing offering 100 percent validated director Steve Pickford (left) and inspection, it takes the issue of director Gwyn Bouch endorse poor quality out of the equation the new Surfscan CHECKpress and underpins our own quality inspection system. Reportedly, claims. It is, in fact, a very impor- zero customer rejects were experitant element in our sales pitch. enced on the trial press (pictured). And you can’t argue with that.” One of the many spinoff benefits of the CHECKpress, according to Systems Labelling, is waste reduction. The CHECKpress has been programmed to measure the density of ink using its greyscale value, and this allows advance warning before ink runs out, which, in turn, saves operator time. uSurfscan Technologies | www.surfscantech.com PFFC-ASAP 301 RK Splicing Tape Offered WINDSOR, CT | Scapa North America offers 571, a highly conformable, heat-resistant tape designed to splice silicone coated substrates. Also used for high temperature masking, chemical masking, and general purpose bonding, product offers a silicone adhesive with high initial tack and shear resistance to ensure an excellent bond on a range of substrates, including those that are silicone coated. The silicone adhesive on this single-coated tape is soft and conformable and bonds well to irregular surfaces, company says. uScapa North America | 860-228-8056 | www.scapana.com PFFC-ASAP 319 Award for Enterprise BURR RIDGE, IL | GSI Technologies was recently honored by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Chicago with a First Place “Below the Radar” Award for the success of its “Lab to Fab” business model. The award recognized GSI for leveraging “its strength in functional printing to carve out new applications in the field of printed electronics, serving customers in the medical, smart card, and solar industries.” The award recognizes and promotes outstanding examples of innovation in the Chicago area that are largely unnoticed by the general business community. The forum looked at innovation in five categories: Business Model Innovation, Design Innovation, Technology Innovation, Innovation Management, and Product/Service Innovation. uMark Andy | www.markandy.com PFFC-ASAP 302 Centers for Recycling Open CHICAGO, IL | RFID Partnership GARDEN GROVE, CA | All Barcode Systems, a label manufacturer and automated data collection equipment distributor, has been accepted as an Honours Partner with Intermec, Everett, WA. Scott Steiner, president of All Barcode Systems, says, “Our partnership with Intermec gives us the added product lines of one of the most respected technology companies in the world. Their RFID products will add great depth to our current RFID offerings.” DUNCANSVILLE, PA | Aquaflex reports a partnership with France’s SRAMAGSMAG. In 2004 Aquaflex was acquired by F.L.Smithe and today employs 250 split between its plant in Duncansville and an engineering office in Montreal, QC, Canada. “After acquiring Aquaflex we first concentrated our marketing on North and South America,” says Stuart Roberts, VP of F.L.Smithe. “We didn’t want to take on the European market without having a competent partner able to operate Europe-wide. We plan to launch this operation in a big way with a stock of parts and a demo press installed at SMAG’s plant by October 2008.” WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM Aquaﬂex Gets a Partner Channeled Resources Group reports the opening of two North American Recycling Service Centers in Hayward, CA, and Marathon City, WI. The centers begin with specific focus on providing solutions for “spent liner” (silicone-coated release liner) and used hot stamp foil (metallized PET). Each facility supports the “one pallet” recycling concept, which allows for as little as one pallet of material to be delivered to the service center at one time. OCTOBER 2008 | 23 http://www.scapana.com http://www.surfscantech.com http://www.markandy.com http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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