FMN | October 29th, 2018

FMN | October 29th, 2018

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October 29, 2018

Vol. 20 No. 22

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Brook & Whittle Buys Prime Package Brook and Whittle Holdings, Corp., Nor th Branford, Connecticut, a provider of pressure sensitive and shrink sleeve prime labels to con- sumer and medical end use markets, has investmented in Prime Package & Label Co., LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, a producer of pressure sensitive, shrink sleeve and heat transfer la- bels into a variety of consumer end markets. Similar to Brook & Whittle, Prime is exclusively focused on growth-oriented categories of the broader prime label market. The combination of Brook &Whit- tle and Prime increases end market, customer and geographic diversifi- cation while maintaining a strong growth focus. Prime expands Brook & Whittle’s manufacturing footprint from the Nor theast to the Midwest and Southeast with facilities in St. Louis and Nashville, Tennessee. Brook & Whittle is majority owned by pri- vate equity firm Snow Phipps Group, LLC. The terms of the trans- action were not disclosed.

NN arrow web converters from around the globe submitted more than 240 entries for this year’s TLMI Annual Awards Competition.Winners were announced at the recent TLMI An- nual Meeting held in Amelia Island, Florida, by Judging Commit- tee Chair, Paul Teachout,VP Sales and Marketing for Nilpeter.

A panel of 12 judges, each representing a different TLMI supplier member, gathered near TLMI’s headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, over the sum- mer to closely examine all Paul Teachout, Judging Commit- tee Chair, ( far left ) presents James DeFife of Multi-Color Corporation North America the Best of Show Award. Multi-Color Corp. ( above ) was awarded Best In Show at the recent TLMI annual meeting for its Sidewinder Spirits label.

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Prime was co-founded by Mario Gleijeses and Jim Traube in 1994 with a focus on high-end flexograph- ic printing.Traube will continue to be responsible for Prime’s day-to-day operations along with Jay Olen- dorff, General Manager. Prime is the first add-on acquisition that Brook & Whittle has completed since Snow Phipps’ initial in- vestment in October 2017. AICC Offers Flexo Best Practices AICC, The Independent Packaging Association, is hosting Best Practices for Flexographic Printing: Raising the Standard , January 23-24, at the PrintCon Center at Clemson University in Clemson, South Car- olina.This course is said to take the challenges out of high-quality flexographic printing on corrugated sub- strates and combines classroom training with time on press. Over two days, participants will focus on producing clean solids and line work as well as halftones and spot colors. Many typical troubleshooting issues will be addressed from dot gain and die-cutting to proper graphic design for corrugated.

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FIG To Distribute Presstek Products in India Further strengthening its relationship with Mark Andy Inc., Flexo Image Graphics (FIG) will now sell Presstek solutions to the Indian market. Recently ac- quired by Mark Andy Inc., the corporate entity has been working toward a seamless integration between

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the two brands and the parent company’s network of distributors. In addition to Mark Andy and Rotoflex equipment, FIG will sell and service Presstek DI presses.The dis- tributor will facilitate field upgrades of existing DI presses with the latest ECO-UV curing. FIG has served as a long-time partner of Mark Andy. In business with the press manufacturer for more than 18 years, FIG maintains a strongly qualified after- sales support team in multiple locations in the region. Global Market For Packaging Tubes Shifts The $2.5 billion packaging tubes market is slated to exhibit promising performance over the next decade, according to a new report from Future Mar- ket Insights. The global market for packaging tubes will possibly thrive at 5.4 percent over 2018-1028, attaining a value of around $4.5 billion by 2028 end. During the course of assessment period, packaging giants are ex- pected to concentrate on improvisation of existing formats of packaging tubes, which have been limiting the use of packaging tubes to pharmaceuticals, oral care products, and cosmetics. Gourav Roy ( left ), Managing Director of FIG, and Ian Pollock, Director of Presstek, firm up the agreement at Presstek’s London headquarters.

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ICPF To Provide Colleges $1M For Corrugated Curricula During the past two decades, the International Cor- rugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) has placed al- most $12 million of equipment, and millions more in software, within packaging programs at colleges and universities around the nation. Earlier this year, the ICPF Board of Directors re- viewed ten university proposals to further advance its corrugated curricula for students. The university pro- posals were received in response to ICPF’s Corrugat- ed Packaging Awards request for proposals that was released late last year. Because of the strength of the entries, the ICPF Board voted to provide funding and equipment over a three year period to support new initiatives at all ten universities. Funding was addition- ally approved for a rolling ICPF Corrugated Packaging Awards program to which additional universities can annually apply as new opportunities emerge to ex- pand corrugated programming for students. After signing letters of asset and extended partner- ship agreements with ICPF, those universities that have been selected to receive funding, equipment, and design software over 2018, 2019, and 2020 in- clude Clemson University, Millersville University, Rut- gers University, North Carolina State University, Indiana State University, University of Texas at Arling-

ton, Western Michigan University, Cal Poly, Lewis- Clark State College and Virginia Tech. Some of the elements of the ten new initiatives en- abled by ICPF will include: the creation of three new corrugated packaging design labs; the funding for ad- ditional dedicated corrugated faculty at four universi- ties that will expand the curricula and the number of undergraduate students within each program; the in- troduction of corrugated sales and business into packaging coursework; the launch of corrugated packaging curricula within two existing paper sci- ence engineering programs; the creation and execu- tion of a prototype to promote corrugated packaging to attract additional high school students into univer- sity packaging classes; the introduction of digital printing on two campuses, the expansion of a pack- aging design program to include the evaluation and testing of corrugated materials; the creation of new packaging degrees and certification programs for un- dergraduate students; and expansions of existing test- ing and packaging design labs. ICPF works with students from more than 40 uni- versities annually and has more than 25 university partners that are currently teaching corrugated cur- ricula. Each year, these campuses provide qualified student interns and new graduates to the corrugated packaging & displays industry.

Industry Events

Graph Expo 19 Sept. 22-25, 2019 Orange County COnvention Center Orlando, FL

Labelexpo India Nov. 22-25, 2018 India Expo Centre & Mart Noida, India

Labelexpo Europe Sept. 24-27, 2019 Brussels Expo Brussels, Belgium Print19 Oct. 3-5, 2019 McCormick Place Chicago, IL

All4Pack Nov. 26-29, 2018 Paris, France

TLMI Converter Meeting March 10-13, 2019 Omni Grove Park Inn Asheville, NC

TLMI Annual Meeting October 27-30, 2019 Omni LaCosta Resort & Spa Carlsbad, CA TLMI Converter Meeting March 8-10, 2020 Four Seasons Austin,TX

FTA Annual Meeting May 6-7, 2019 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center New Orleans, LA

printTHINK Summit Sept. 11-13, 2019 Hyatt Regency O’Hare Rosemont, IL

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converter submissions and to ultimately award seven Best in Class entries and one Best in Show. The TLMI Annual Awards Competition honors best- in-class package printing in a range of print process categories including flexography, letterpress, offset, multi-process printing and digital. The non-pressure sensitive categories of unsupported roll labels and cut & stack are also represented. “We were thrilled with the results of this year’s TLMI Annual Awards Competition,” said Dan Muenzer, TLMI President. “Entry submissions were up 25 per- cent from last year and we have streamlined the process so that it’s easier for converters to submit work than ever before. I want to encourage TLMI’s

new converter members to participate.Winning one of these awards gives converters a tremendous tool to have in their marketing arsenal and our winners are constantly reporting the messaging value these awards offer.” List of Best in Show and Best in Class winners: Best in Show : Multi-Color Corporation North America — Sidewinder Spirits Co. Best in Class, Digital : Syracuse Label & Surround Printing — Drawbridge Gin ( Front row left to right ): Lynn Higgs, Infinite Packaging Group; John Attayak, Inovar Packaging Group; Lori Campbell, The Label Printers; Linnea Keen, UPM Raflatac; Elizabeth Pecha-Poelker, Print- Flex Graphics; Craig Moreland, Coast Label Company; Jim Hammer, Hammer Packaging Corp.; Michelle Zeller, AWT Labels & Packaging; and Robert Parker, Label King. Current TLMI Board of Directors include ( back row left to right ): John Wynne, Fortis Solutions Group; Mark Glendenning, Inland Packaging; Scott Fisher, Smyth Companies; Patrick Potter, Flexo Wash LLC; Steve Schulte, Mark Andy, Inc.; Tim McDonough, Flexo-Graphics; and Michael Ritter, I.D. Images.

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