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What’s happening at your company? Send your news to yolanda.simonsis@penton.com. REPORTER Narrow Web & Label Spear Adds PPPI Unit CINCINNATI, OH | AT Keeping Up With the Competition RK LOS ANGELES, CA | Western Shield Label has installed a Mark Andy 2200 eight-color UV flexo press, which is enabling the converter to minimize lead times and maintain a competitive cost structure. “I am very excited about this investment,” says president Frank Connelly. “This 2200 provides additional high quality capacity, so it will enable us to continue growing our business in a measured way, while maintaining the quality and service our customers have come to expect. We are absolutely committed to investing in superior equipment, employees, and materials in order to serve our existing customers and pursue new business.” uMark Andy | www.markandy.com PFFC-ASAP 308 CHARLOTTE, NC | A new product from tesa tape, designated 4848 PV1, is designed to ensure protection against stains, scratches, dirt, dust, and paint spills on virtually any surface. It is constructed with a PE backing that has intrinsic protectors against UV rays that allow it to act as a sunscreen for up to four weeks of UV light exposure. An acrylic-based adhesive system ensures a solid bond to a myriad of surfaces yet removes completely clean when time for removal, company says. Film Is Protective Spear, a supplier of beverage labels, has purchased the Precision Printing and Packaging (PPPI) unit of Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group. Terms were not disclosed. PPPI prints 28 billion labels each year for AnheuserBusch and other consumer products companies. Mike Harding, CEO/president of the Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group, says, “We believe this is the right choice for PPPI. We’re pleased to continue our relationship as a customer of Spear.” W O GENT, BELGIUM | Avery Dennison has teamed up with EskoArtwork and ExxonMobil Chemical to offer colorguaranteed printing to digital label converters. As a result of this team effort, narrow web label converters using EskoArtwork software with PacVantage technology will be able to buy Avery Dennison selfadhesive labels faced with Digilyte films that activate the color guarantee. Guaranteeing Color TORONTO, ON, CANADA | Sirit has W O UHF Reader Is Upgraded Balkan Converters Go for Gidue SLOVENSKA, SLOVENIA | With help from its distributor Simark, Gidue has installed a six-color F-Combat 280 at Fleksotisk Logar. The press is printing self-adhesive labels and blister packs for the pharmaceutical sector. Gidue also has supplied Fleksotisk Logar with a Quadra flexo press dedicated to short runs. Simark was recently involved in other Gidue sales in the area: Sorex, which prints mainly self-adhesive labels, shrink sleeves, and wraparound labels, invested in a seven-color E-Combat 370; Macedonian customer Kiro Dandaro bought an S-Combat 370; Tenovis chose an eight-color I-Combat 430; and Radece Papir purchased an eight-color S-Combat 370. uGidue | www.gidue.com PFFC-ASAP 309 released a new firmware version for its INfinity 510 UHF reader, designated 2.0. Regional regulatory compatibilities that have been added include Australia, China, Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan, bringing the total to 18 regions. Among the upgrades are advancements in company’s proprietary tag acquisition algorithms, reportedly enhancing tag singulation performance capabilities and reader sensitivity. WINDSOR, CT | Scapa North America offers 815 heat-resistant, non-silicone tape that withstands temperatures to 350 deg F. It is designed to mask and hold tools, forms, and parts for metal and composite bonding, and for masking PCB contacts during conformal coating. Tape comprises high-temperature nylon backing, single coated with a rubber adhesive said to eliminate the potential for silicone contamination. Company says the 3.2-mil-thick tape is easy to apply and remove and withstands autoclaving if necessary. WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM Tape Stands Up to Heat AT RK ALEXANDRIA, VA | The 2008 Economic Jobs Study is available from the Envelope Mfrs. Assn. Foundation for Paper-Based Communications’ Inst. for Postal Studies. The report, an update to a 2003 study, says there are approximately 8.4 million jobs and over $1 trillion in revenue associated with the mailing industry. Firms associated with the mailing industry generate nearly $1.2 trillion in revenue. For more information visit www.emafoundation.org. EMA Offers Postal Report NOVEMBER 2008 | 25 http://www.markandy.com http://www.gidue.com http://www.emafoundation.org http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM

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PFFC - November 2008 Contents First Glance Calendar of Events From the Editor Web Lines Process Management News Clips Narrow Web & Label Reporter Narrow Web & Label: What’s New Products TLMI Awards Card Making Web Coating Ink Dispensing Lab/Pilot/Technical Facilities Directory Testing & Measuring Products What’s New Products Services Directory Classified Marketplace Advertisers Index Experience Speaks

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