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In the March installment of Roundtable, we sit down with John P. Christiano,Vice President, Technology at Davis-Standard LLC, Laurent Cros, CEO for Pearl Technologies Inc., Andy Christie, Managing Director at SAM North America LLC, Mike Andrews, Process Technology and Application Development, Extrusion Systems at Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp., Steve DeSpain, Vice President, for Reifenhauser Inc., Jim Campbell, Vice President of Sales at Hosokawa Alpine American Inc., and Vijay Shankar, Vice President for Mamata Extrusion Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Fox Packaging has announced a capital investment to upgrade its McAllen, Texas, facility by June 2017 in order to better service the needs of its customers with faster production times.

The company is expanding its sales team in order to meet the increasing demands of its customer base and to maintain the level of service its printers and converters have come to expect.

Sun Chemical’s expanded color gamut inks will be used on press during the Uteco open house scheduled on March 22 at the company’s Kennesaw, Georgia, facility.

Printing ink manufacturer Siegwerk has published its first-ever sustainability report, based on the international GRI standard, which lays a new basis for evaluating the company’s sustainable actions.

ICE USA, the International Converting Exhibition scheduled this year from April 25-27 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, is the only dedicated event for the conversion of paper, film, foil, nonwovens and other flexible web-based materials in the Americas.

Uflex has developed a way for converters to achieve a metallic effect on a non-metallic substrate via its new reflective color communication technology that works with its pre-press software and special laser engraving hardware. 

In the Jan/Feb installment of Roundtable, we sit down with Eric Smith, Vice President of Technology for Charter NEX and Eric Bender, Market Development Manager, New Platforms for Jindal Films Americas.

For Fritz Yambrach, professor and director of packaging at San Jose State University in California, decades of experience in the packaging industry and concern for access to water in impoverished or disaster areas led to an idea for a simple, yet life-changing solution: the Fritz Water Vest.

Back in 2014, INEOS announced that they were halting the production of Barex resins, the acclaimed resins used in chemical-resistant packaging. The announcement shook the flexible packaging industry...