FMN | December 23rd, 2019

FMN | December 23rd, 2019

Vol. 21 No. 26 FLEX Serving The Flexographic Printing Industry In Print and Online at www.nvpublications.com ® Flexo Industry Thrives Through Innovation Labelexpo Asia Breaks Records An N.V. Publication Market News

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The organizer of Labelexpo Asia 2019 has confirmed that its 9th edi- tion of Labelexpo Asia was its largest yet, reporting an 18 percent growth in buyer visitors and a floorspace that was 26 percent larger than its previ- ous edition.

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T he flexo industry runs on innovation. This year saw anoth- er 12 months of acquisitions and equipment purchases, as printers fought hard to stay toe-to-toe with their competitors. This week we look back at the first six months of the year, con- tinuing next issue with the final six months of the year.What fol- lows are some of the headlines that made waves in the industry in 2019. Fortis Solutions Group LLC , a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, acquired Infinite Packaging Group, Inc. , a portfolio company of Svoboda Capital Partners LLC. Infinite,

Taking place December 3-6 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), a total of 23,636 visi- tors flocked to the four-day show from a total of 90 countries, compared to 20,084 visitors from 81 countries at the 2017 edition. The show featured more than 350 suppliers from the re- gion and worldwide, showcasing the latest label and package printing ma-

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with facilities in Lewisville, Texas, and Catoosa, Oklahoma, is a full-service converter of label products, including pressure sen- sitive labels, shrink sleeves and complementary products and services. Infinite reportedly serves a diverse group of clients in several consumer vertical markets including consumer products, retail, food and beverage, nutraceuticals and health and beauty. In addition, the company has developed a specialized line of products and solutions for e-commerce sales.

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FTA Forms ‘Women of Flexo’ Committee Following a successful meeting at FORUM 2019 in May and a leadership meeting at Fall Conference 2019 in October, FTA has announced the formation of the Women of Flexo Committee. Dr. Nona Woolbright of Clemson University and Jennye Scott of Berry Global will co-chair the committee, which will work to fur- ther support and promote women in the flexographic industry through a variety of opportunities. As a way of reaching the objectives set forth by its leadership team, the Committee will be organizing and working in four subcommittees, each of which rep- resents a singular objective: • Marketing/Strategy : Increasing awareness of the Committee, and defining its long- and short-term goals; • Recruitment : Coordinating with schools to find Committee members and network; • Mentorship : Develop relationships between Com- mittee members new to the industry and those with experience; and • Leadership Diversity :Work toward increasing fe- male representation on panels, speaking opportunities and industry leadership roles. The next Women of Flexo meeting will take place at FORUM 2020 on Sunday,April 19.

National Railway Museum To Host EFIA Annual Event The European Flexographic Industry Association (EFIA UK Ltd) will hold its next annual awards event on March 19, 2020, at the National Railway Museum, York, England. The EFIA Print Awards 2020 Gala Dinner event will once again celebrate the outstanding achievements of the flexographic industry in what has proved to be a turbulent economic and legislative environment. The event celebrates collective and individual successes along with the advancements of the sector, providing a platform to highlight the companies and individuals that make such progress possible. AICC To Host Flexo Printing Seminar AICC will host a seminar, Flexographic Printing:Rais- ing the Standard , on January 29-30, 2020, at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.The seminar will focus on producing clean solids and line work, as well as halftones and spot colors by balancing classroom ses- sions and time on press. By this method, participants will reportedly have a deeper understanding of the con- cepts and gain experience building standard works.

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The show’s new feature areas included Flexpack Asia, which displayed the latest flexible packaging technology. A series of packed live demonstrations at the Flexible Packaging Arena took place on the show floor each day of the show.Making its debut, and intro- duced barely three months ago at Labelexpo Europe 2019 in September, this area of the show enabled visi- tors to see two press lines in action showcasing flexi- ble pouch production. Similarly, the returning Smart Zone enjoyed a con- stant flow of visitors. Displayed products included next generation 3D holograms, nano-materials, ad- vanced decoration technology, special inks and RFID/ NFC labels. TRESU Creates Customer Care Business Unit Printing equipment and machine manufacturer TRESU has created a new business unit in order to pro- vide its customers with lifetime support and help cus- tomers drive down excess waste, cost and down time. TRESU Customer Care reportedly helps customers in- crease their overall equipment effectiveness (OEE),which impacts the costs of production and yields a lower cost to print.TRESU Customer Care has two primary goals:maxi- mizing uptime and driving down the cost to print. Among the features of the comprehensive program are a technical hotline for urgent assistance; sched- uled maintenance; spare part assistance and an online “webshop”with original spare parts and consumables, ready for daily shipments. Augmenting those provi- sions are programs of remote management,machinery upgrades and hands-on training at TRESU’s Training and Demo Center in Denmark.

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de Valldigna near Valencia and Fraga in Catalonia and two in the province of Huelva not far from Seville.Ac- cording to International Paper, Envases Grau employs 70 people. Durst , a manufacturer of advanced digital printing and production technologies, entered into a 50/50 joint venture with printing press manufacturer Koe- nig & Bauer for the joint development and marketing of single-pass digital printing systems for folding car- ton and cartonboard corrugated industry. BST eltromat International , a manufacturer of quality assurance systems for web-processing indus- tries, and cooperation partner Nyquist Systems, man- ufacturer of the TubeScan portfolio for 100 percent inspection and web monitoring for the narrow web market, celebrated the 1,000th TubeScan produced. TSC Auto ID Technology , a global presence in the AIDC bar code printer industry with an American headquarerts in Brea, California, acquired Diversi- fied Labeling Solutions, Inc. (DLS).Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, DLS was founded by Bob Hakman in 1985.Today, DLS is a labeling solutions provider with more than 200 team members; four locations: Illinois, Georgia, Texas, and Nevada; and more than 320,000 square feet of production space.

PPC Flexible Packaging, LLC , a provider of cus- tom flexible packaging for specialty food and health- care markets, acquired Payson, Utah–based Temkin International . PPC, headquartered in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, is a flexographic printing and converting of flexible films, bags and pouches. Temkin International, founded in 1980 and headquartered in Payson, Utah, is a provider of rollstock, stand-up pouches and floral sleeves and operates manufacturing facilities in Payson, Utah, and Bogota,Colombia with offices in Miami, Flor- ida, and Toronto, Canada. AR Packaging Group AB , Lund, Sweden, acquired all outstanding shares in Istragrafika, d.d. , a produc- er of folding carton products for the tobacco, food and consumer goods segments. Istragrafika, headquartered in Kanfanar, Croatia, has a workforce of approximate- ly 160 employees. Istragrafika was established in 1956 and previously owned by TDR, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco plc. International Paper took over Envases Grau in Spain, a company with four packaging plants and ca- pacities of around 15,000 tons per year. Envases Grau is a family-run manufacturer of corrugated board and wooden packaging, especially for fruit and vegetables. The company operates four sites, one each inTavernes

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MacDermid Launches Solution For Post-Print Corrugated MacDermid Graphics Solutions has launched LUX ITP EDGE, an In-The-Plate flat top dot solution for post-print corrugated. With an optimized dot struc- ture, LUX ITP EDGE reportedly reduces fluting with- out the use of additional plate making techniques or exposure systems. LUX ITP EDGE, the latest addition to MacDer- mid’s LUX ITP product portfolio, is designed to print high-quality images on post-print corrugated with near 1:1 reproduction up to 120 lpi and proven results with minimal bump requirements up to 150 lpi. LUX ITP EDGE can print retail-ready packaging featuring high- end graphics with fine highlight dots on corrugated surfaces, according to the company. AICC Announces 2020 Spring Meeting Registration Registration for the 2020 Spring Meeting hosted by AICC, The Independent Packaging Association, April 1-3, at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa, in Carlsbad, California, is now open. The meeting will feature a three-day series of gener- al sessions, workshops, and networking events that of- fer information and new trends.The meeting will also feature the 7thAnnual Independents Cup Charity Golf Tournament. In conjunction with the meeting, AICC will offer a revamped Sales Management Forum and program for AICC Emerging Leaders. Keynote speakers include Steve Robinson, former CMO and EVP, Chick-fil-A, and Captain Richard Phillips, the real-life inspiration for the movie“Captain Phillips” and Author. The focused session,“The Climate for Your Compa- ny’s Growth in 2020” will feature speakers; Adam Jo- sephson, Director, Equity Research, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc. (Packaging Sector) and Mitch Klingher, CPA & Partner, Klingher Nadler, LLC, who will offer an overview of containerboard and box demand num- bers and what they mean, as well as, an update on M&A. Nathan Safran,Vice President, Research, NAPCO Media, will share findings that highlight trends, adop- tions, and behaviors of brand owners and the pack- aging sector. The session will close with a member panel that will discuss their thoughts on the current climate and the factors they consider when making capital investments, acquisitions and their views on organic growth. Panelists & Moderator include; Gene Marino, EVP, Rusken Packaging, Mike Akey, President, Akers Packaging Inc. and Nick Smith, President & CEO, Rand-Whitney.

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Omet India Opens In New Delhi

Constantia Flexibles Celebrates Grand Opening Constantia Flexibles unveiled its new plant,Constan- tia Ecoflex Ahmedabad, at a opening ceremony on No- vember 20. More than 300 guests, including the Austri- an ambassador to India, Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofe, and RS Sodhi, Managing Director of Amul industries and expert in the field of sustainability,as well as select- ed media representatives, attended the grand opening. Following the official part of the opening, including speeches and the ribbon-cutting, guests and media representatives attended a guided tour through the new plant.They had the opportunity to take a look at the technology that produces the packaging solution EcoLam by Constantia Flexibles. Ecolam is high barri- er flexible packaging that combines the resource-ef- ficiency of plastic with recyclability back into new packaging films, said Achim Grefenstein, SVP Group R&D, who drew the development of the EcoLam de- velopment in close collaboration with the Indian team. The Ecoflex plant opened after more than two years of intensive preparations.Test runs started in Septem- ber 2019. It has an area of 24,500 square meters and currently employs 50 people.The number is expected to triple by the second quarter of 2020.The plant will supply customers worldwide.

Omet India, the new Omet technical-commercial subsidiary headquartered in New Delhi, India,was offi- cially inaugurated on November 29, in the presence of more than 80 members of the Indian printing industry, including printers, suppliers and brand owners. With the India facility,Omet added a new element to its group of branches around the world: Omet Ameri- cas in Elk GroveVillage, Illinois;Omet Suzhou in China; and Omet Iberica in Barcelona, Spain. Local agentWeldon Celloplast has led the installation of more than 30 Omet printing machines in the region. Many Omet customers attended the presentation of the new offices,includingAny Graphics,Zircon and Re- nault,who already works with several Omet machines. Harveer Sahni,Chairman ofWeldon Celloplast,spoke about the birth of the collaboration with Omet since the 1990s, when he met Angelo Bartesaghi, founder of Omet, during his visit to India. Marco Calcagni, Omet Sales and Marketing Director, spoke about the Omet group and officially introduced his son,Andrea Calcagni,who recently joined the company as International Strategy and Business Development Manag- er,and is currently in India to work with Pawandeep Sahni to develop the new Omet business in New Delhi.

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polypropylene (BOPP / MOPP), PVC, and paper sub- strates.At this, the parent plant, the first 570 mm web width Nilpeter FA-Line for water-based inks has now been installed. Designed For Production At the start, the machine was designed for the pro- duction of paper materials, which are used for adhe- sive roll cores, tickets, and other paper products. How- ever, in order to expand the possible product portfolio in advance, the machine is also equipped with a rotary die-cutter, a cross-over unit, and expansion options for UV- and LED-drying.This alternative drying technolo- gy can subsequently also be used in combination with the existing hot air drying system. Due to the high de- gree of automation, the short web path, and the sig- nificantly reduced waste, even very small jobs can be produced with maximum efficiency, according to the company. Through Müroll GmbH’s subsidiary Logett GmbH, which specializes in the production of self-adhesive labels, there is also access to further market segments, which opens up additional synergy effects with the new FA-22.

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company now holds a majority interest in the compa- ny, which makes inspection systems for narrow web printing processes. OPM Group , Leeds, UK, installed a 14-color Nil- peter FA4 flexo press with inline finishing.The press is configured with a Martin Automation MBS auto- matic butt-splicer, an LRD automatic transfer rewind and an AVT Helios 6 inspection system.The Nilpeter FA4 runs with a web width of 420mm and prints at speeds up to 175m/min. It was installed by OPM with de- and re-lamination, UV-lamination, die-cut, screen, hot-foil, cold-foil, embossing, in-setting and cross-over printing units. Celloclair AG , a packaging manufacturer based in Liestal, Switzerland, reportedly became the first com- pany in the country to install a 20SEVEN press, the 10-color CI flexographic printing press from Bobst . It was also the first Swiss company to utilize the new Connected Services offering from Bobst, enabling a new form of cooperative partnership and optimized, connected machinery in the age of Industry 4. Electronics For Imaging (EFI) entered into a de- finitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group, LLC , in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion.

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Great American Packaging , Los Angeles, Califor- nia, purchased a new Koenig & Bauer Flexotecni- ca EVO-XD eight-color press. The press increased the six-color custom printed products currently be- ing produced to eight colors as well as allowed the firm to create multi-color images in both process and spot color. Multi-Color Corporation , Batavia, Ohio, entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Platinum Equity LLC . Golden West Packaging Group LLC , Sacramen- to, California, a holding company for packaging busi- nesses, formed in 2017 by private investment firm Lindsay Goldberg, acquired Allpak Container . This represented Golden West’s third acquisition following its acquisition of five Northern California-based pack- aging manufacturers (Cal Sheets; Capital Corrugated; Heritage Solutions; Packaging Innovators; and Package One), and its acquisition of Southern California-based Fleetwood-Fibre Packaging & Graphics. BST eltromat International , a manufacturer of quality assurance systems for web-processing indus- tries based in Bielefeld, Germany, increased its stake in Nyquist Systems GmbH , Landsberg am Lech, Germany, through its parent company elexis AG. The

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Top Print I-Labels Technology , Chengdu, China, added an Omet XFlex X4 press. Part of a group of com- panies with headquarters in Singapore, the Chengdu facility, which opened in 2013, is complemented by plants in Suzhou and Chongqing, which employ 80 people.The 8-color X4 came equipped with cold foil, twin die stations,web turn bars, and delam/relam facil- ity, able to work to full capacity in the company’s new 6,000-square-meter factory. AWT Labels and Packaging closed on the acquisi- tion of Citation Clinical Labeling Systems , a global provider of clinical labeling since 1963, based in Haup- pauge, NewYork.The business is now owned by AWT and operates under the name of Citation Healthcare Labels. Citation provides clinical trial labels for phar- maceutical and biotechnology companies, clinical re- search organizations, and clinical packagers.The com- pany was founded in 1963 by the family of Richard Bolnick, who remained as President of Citation, as a diversified distributor of printing and labels. Nilpeter USA and Screen Americas , who an- nounced their partnership with the Panorama digital label printing platform, established a comprehensive go-to-market program to help label/packaging printers and converters take advantage of the flexibility built into the Panorama solution and profit from the synergy between the two companies.The Panorama one-source go-to-market program includes market evaluation, utili- zation analyses, ROI >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16

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