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Specialty Label & Packaging—manufacturers of pressure sensitive labels & related products—has announced they are moving to a new 330,000 square-foot building in Windsor, CT. The new facility provides the company with almost 200,000 square feet of additional space, and provides room for expanding...

Responding to packaging waste as an “industry-wide challenge that we must all do our part to address,” Kraft Heinz CEO, Miguel Patricio, is working with UK innovator Pulpex, and planning to trial a paper-based, recyclable tomato ketchup bottle as part of an array of initiatives to reduce their...

According to Mailcom, the paper shortage has exploded into a full-fledged crisis in the early months of 2022, as printers & mailers scrambled to meet current & future job requirements. Paper is a commodity—prices fluctuate based on supply & demand—and prices surged in the last 6-months, doubling...

Here's an old thread that might be of value: https://printplanet.com/threads/kimosetter-problems.3430/

Bar Graphic Machinery (BGM)—flexible packaging & digital label converting/finishing systems, die cutting slitter rewinders—has announced the opening of a new USA demonstration center at its distributor/partner, J&J Converting Machinery’s location in Grandview, Missouri. The new facility will...

Fujifilm’s Activ Hybrid LED-UV Curing System can be installed on new presses & retrofit to existing equipment by label & packaging converters. The new system combines the latest high-power, low-heat LED-UV curing technologies with Fujifilm's ink expertise to improve label production on narrow...

Agfa has announced SolidTune, a prepress software solution for printing offset packaging that reduces the amount of ink needed by an average of 3%, with improved image quality. Built on the key elements of InkTune & PressTune, SolidTune is part of Agfa’s ECO3 program. During the last stage of...

Fujifilm has announced a double-digit percentage increase in the price of their aluminum offset printing plates, effective June 1, 2022. Due to the cost of raw aluminum, together with significant increases in logistics supply chain costs, it is Fujifilm's belief that in order to continue to...

Canon USA has launched PRISMAcolor Manager—a cloud-based solution that allows users to evaluate & monitor print quality. It can be used with a variety of Canon & non-Canon production printing devices. Using objective measurement methods to define color quality, PRISMAcolor Manager allows users...

You've printed & mailed the job, but your customer's impatient to see results, and soon they're asking whether you mailed it. You start wondering if it's all just sitting in some corner at a post office. "Informed Visibility" is the way to find out. Postage Saver’s new software app, Postal...

Trees-Into-Cartons-Cartons-Into-Trees (TICCIT) is a national initiative created in 2010—partnering with the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC)—to teach grade schoolers across the US about the paper-making process and how recycling works. After classroom learning sessions, students pot tree...

SAUERESSIG e.GEN—provider of prepress services & tools—has announced an alternative to Pantone for Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop users with their c.CLOUD—cloud-based color database plugin. To connect c.CLOUD with Adobe products, a plugin for Illustrator & Photoshop is provided that retains...

APTech and FSEA have announced live print finishing & embellishment equipment demos at this year’s Amplify Event—Print Finishing & Embellishment—set for June 14-16, 2022 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Front & center is Standard Horizon’s CRF-362 Creaser/Folder, designed to handle the...

They have a mill in Minnesota, so it might.

UPM and the Paperworkers’ Union have agreed on collective labor agreements for five UPM businesses. The strike at UPM mills in Finland will end immediately and employees will return to work. The strike covered UPM Pulp, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Raflatac and UPM...

Agfa-Gevaert has announced it will acquire—Cambridge, UK based—Inca Digital Printers, subject to obtaining customary approvals. Inca is a leading developer / manufacturer of advanced high-speed printing & production technologies for sign, display and digital package printing. Inca Digital...

Enfocus has announced a platform update for its preflighting & PDF editing program PitStop, as this software celebrates its 25th anniversary. PitStop enables streamlining operations to overcome preflighting, editing, repair and reporting challenges. Fully interactive, PitStop—a comprehensive...

Printing has a long history of attracting & retaining a workforce that replenishes aging-out journeyman & skilled talent. With a tight labor pool everywhere, Americas Print Show (APS22) has its focus on finding tomorrow’s workforce—with the goal of bringing resources, ideas, education and...

This is not specifically mentioned in the release. A good question to ask your Toyo rep.

Toyo Printing Inks has announced that its LP-9000 Toyo Life Premium Food LO/LM series of sheetfed offset inks has passed the INGEDE—International Association of the Deinking Industry—deinkability test with the maximum score of 100/100. When ink can be effectively removed from paper, it’s...