Ricardo Abud is the new president for CMD Corporation. Abud will lead the company on its commitment to advancing equipment technology to bring next-level success to customers; expanding CMD’s international footprint and market presence; and fostering a culture of customer focus.
Kala is expanding its digital printing fleet with an HP Indigo 6900 Digital Press, a newly released narrow-web press driving data for labels and packaging with higher speed and performance.
Flexographic Technical Association’s (FTA) Forum 2018 will begin with a session from the Flexo Quality Consortium (FQC) titled “Cultivating Our Future Through Research.” The session will host an array of speakers and data focused on providing important updates on current FQC projects and how looking to the future of flexo will impact today’s pressroom.
Squid Ink Manufacturing Inc. has added SI-PZ8010 UV LED White ink to its fluids family. UV LED curable white ink is approved for use in current Squid Ink CoPilot 128 and CoPilot 256 printing systems and should be used in conjunction with the Squid UV LED Curing System.
To deliver an interactive experience to consumers before, during and after consumption, Coca-Cola has rolled out cans of Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta and Sprite in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia featuring Reveal temperature sensitive inks by Crown.
ePac Flexible Packaging, an all-digital flexible packaging converter, purchased 10 HP Indigo 20000 digital presses to expand operations across the U.S. through mid-2019. The order quadruples production capacity for ePac and is the largest packaging deal for HP to date. The purchase is ePac’s second expansion with the high-capacity HP Indigo 20000 flexible packaging press since launching just 18 months ago with one HP Indigo unit.
Affiliates of Leonard Green & Partners, a leading private equity investment firm, have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ProMach from affiliates of AEA Investors. Founded in 1998, ProMach is a family of best-in-class packaging solution product brands serving manufacturers of all sizes, geographies and industries.
The BoxMaker, a Pacific Northwest leader in digital print production for corrugated packaging, held the inaugural Packaging Experience Summit on January 16, 2018. Major brands from Washington, Oregon and beyond were in attendance to learn from industry experts how to leverage the potential of digital print.
Videojet Technologies has introduced the Videojet 2351 and 2361 high-resolution large character inkjet printers for producers with on-demand case coding operations. The 2351 and 2361 not only print high quality, durable bar codes, text and images on white and brown corrugated boxes, but also offer a new standard in simplicity of maintenance, reliability and ease-of-use.
Greg Masingill will be taking over as Executive Vice President at Schneider Packaging. Masingill has integrated experience in corporate strategy, sales, marketing, logistics and product development, and worked for Seneca Corp for 15 years.