OCONOMOWOC, WI – MGF Services & Equipment is excited to announce the addition of Colordyne Technologies’ UV and Water-Based inkjet print engines to their new equipment offerings. With over 40 years of experience, MGF’s consultative approach and commitment to outstanding customer service are what keep them thriving. Colordyne’s digital retrofit solutions allow users to turn their new or existing flexo press, web handling, packaging, and converting systems into state-of-the-art single pass hybrid printing platforms.

“It makes perfect sense for us to add the Colordyne digital retrofit print engines to our new equipment offerings for our growing customer base in the labels, packaging, corrugated boxes and converting market segments. We pride ourselves on being a dependable ‘Single Source’ provider and Colordyne’s solutions bring cost savings and superior performance with variable data, simplified for optimized production efficiencies,” says Mona Friedl, President of MGF.

MGF Services & Equipment is a full-service provider from machine shop fabrication processes, parts, and support services to buying and selling used print manufacturing equipment. MGF specializes in the commercial offset printing, direct-mail, digital printing & finishing, labels, packaging & converting, flexo and industrial manufacturing industries.

Colordyne Technologies, also Wisconsin-based, is a leading manufacturer of high speed, high resolution and low capital cost UV-LED and water-based inkjet print engines. Colordyne’s unique retrofit approach to digital printing allows label converters to seamlessly integrate process color inkjet directly onto existing production lines at breakthrough speeds and without the loss of current press functionality.

The MGF history dates back to the year 1976 when Walter Friedl dedicated his engineering and technical expertise to the redesign and support of large format offset presses. Mona’s maternal grandfather named Edward Kleist ran his own printing press company in 1922 from Milwaukee, WI.

In April of 2004, with over 25 years of printing machinery experience in the aftermarket parts and service support business for the maintenance and repair of production equipment, Mona closed the door of the family-run business and opened another, namely MGF Services LLC.

“The key to ongoing success in my world is to consistently find new ways to support and service customers. Most of the services that we offer today have been developed by listening to our customers and understanding their needs. Aftermarket products and refurbishing leaders differentiate themselves by providing superior services and enhanced product solutions. Innovation and creativity are vital for developing and providing continuously improved services and product solutions.”

The MGF philosophy centers around the reality that it is not always necessary to invest in new equipment in order to achieve the desirable results when a well-constructed strategy using re-engineered and enhanced existing assets can provide a more cost-effective solution to meet one’s investment objectives.

The MGF Team of experts can assist you to identify the best Colordyne Technologies digital retrofit print engine solution that will enable you to extend the production life of your existing or new flexo or converting systems for years to come.

About Colordyne Technologies
Headquartered in Brookfield, WI, Colordyne Technologies is a leading manufacturer of high speed, high resolution and low capital cost UV-LED and water-based inkjet print engines. They are designed for integration onto existing printing and converting equipment to create an affordable hybrid production press. Colordyne Technologies recognizes the years of investments made into the people and equipment that make up a label converting press room. Colordyne’s unique retrofit approach to digital printing allows label converters to seamlessly integrate process color inkjet directly onto existing production lines at breakthrough speeds and without the loss of current press functionality. Visit www.colordynetech.com for additional information.

Three-Day Event for Training on Label Printers, Label Design Software and Top Media Solutions

Los Alamitos, CA – Epson today announced it will be hosting a ColorWorks® training event for partners at its U.S. headquarters in Orange County, Calif., with ScanSource, a leading hybrid distributor connecting devices to the cloud. The three-day event, from Sept. 19-21, will focus on exclusive training, featuring label design software from Epson ColorWorks label partners, along with top media producers.

“We look forward to having the opportunity to showcase Epson’s industry-leading solutions to our partners, while also providing insight into the tools, programs and educational opportunities ScanSource provides in support of these solutions,” said Ansley Hoke, senior vice president of marketing, ScanSource, Inc. “We are excited to network with our partners at Epson’s headquarters and uncover new opportunities for growth and success.”

The event will include BarTender® label design software training from Epson label partner Seagull Scientific, as well as information from vendor partner DTG and top media producers General Data Company, Inc. and Mactac. The educational event was designed exclusively for value-added resellers and offers a deep dive into the Epson ColorWorks on-demand color label printer products. Training topics will include:

• Partner marketing support and custom configuration capabilities

• Color label overview and Epson’s leadership in on-demand labels

• Introduction to performance materials and adhesives

• Creating compliant, intelligent templates for specific industries

• Hands-on printer training for amazing customer demos

“These in-person events are really important. Our reseller partners get concentrated, in-depth, hands-on training with the printers, software and media – seeing firsthand how all the critical components work together,” said Victor Gomez, director, Industrial Labels, Epson America, Inc. “We are excited to welcome folks to our Orange County headquarters for training and networking.”

The event specifically offers training for Epson’s ColorWorks on-demand color label printers that offer flexibility for printing one or thousands of labels at a time. The full portfolio helps maximize efficiency and reduce obsolete inventory costs. Products demonstrated at the event will include Epson’s newest ColorWorks C4000 compact printer and the ColorWorks CW-C6000-series industrial label printers with auto cutter and peel-and-present models.

Attendees are also invited to an opportunity to tour Epson’s Technology Center in Carson, Calif. For additional information about Epson’s ColorWorks on-demand color label printers, visit epson.com/colorworks-color-label-printers.

About ScanSource

ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC) is a leading hybrid distributor connecting devices to the cloud and accelerating growth for partners across hardware, SaaS, connectivity and cloud. ScanSource enables partners to deliver solutions for their customers to address changing end-user buying and consumption patterns. ScanSource sells through multiple, specialized routes-to-market with hardware, SaaS, connectivity and cloud services offerings from the world’s leading suppliers of point-of-sale (POS), payments, barcode, physical security, unified communications and collaboration, telecom, and cloud services. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, ScanSource was named one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in South Carolina and on FORTUNE magazine’s 2022 List of World’s Most Admired Companies. ScanSource ranks #773 on the Fortune 1000. For more information, visit www.scansource.com.

About Epson

Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson’s goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.

Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/

Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson’s regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com.

Winners announced on opening night of Labelexpo Americas 2022

The results of the label industry’s prestigious global awards were announced on the opening night of Labelexpo Americas 2022.

The winners were chosen by a judging panel consisting of Lori Campbell, chairman of TLMI, Linnea Keen, president of TLMI, Philippe Voet, president of FINAT, Greg Hrinya, editor of Label & Narrow Web, James Quirk, then group editor of Labels & Labeling, and Jean Poncet, editor-in-chief at Etiq+Pack. The chair of the judging panel was Andy Thomas-Emans, strategic director Tarsus Labels & Packaging Group.

As previously announced, the winner of the 2022 R. Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award is Harveer Sahni. The judging panel felt Harveer meets all the criteria for excellence demanded by the industry’s most prestigious award for an individual’s contribution to the growth and development of the global labels industry. His history in building a company to manufacture self-adhesive labels in India, through to his central role in building the Indian label association and then acting as an influential ambassador on the world stage, all helped the judging panel to come to their decision.

The Rising Star Award went to Stijn Billiet, Global Sustainability Director, MCC Label. Stijn joined MCC in 2020 and made an immediate impact bringing sustainability onto the agenda of the business. Early 2021 he presented a roadmap for all global production sites to reduce their carbon footprint, guiding the Belgian facility to carbon neutral production. Stijn represents MCC in its collaboration with organizations such as Holy Grail, RecyClass, APR, and CELAB. The judging panel felt Stijn has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader and is already a strong voice within the labels industry.

The Environmental Sustainability Award was won by Flint Group Narrow Web for a new line of products designed to enable more sustainable packaging. The first product in the series, Evolution Deinking Primer, when used with Flint Group EkoCure XS inks, enables deinking of crystallisable shrink sleeves, allowing the clean sleeve label material to be recovered and recycled into PET packaging. The judging panel felt that the Evolution Deinking Primer makes a major contribution to developing a circular lifecycle for label materials.

The Innovation Award for companies with over 300 employees went to Actega for its Signite decoration technology. Utilizing the latest in UV-curable chemistry, Signite decorations are created entirely on press, eliminating the need for the laminated constructions used in traditional pressure-sensitive label production. Signite decorations are built in register with the graphics and label content, so there is no die cutting and no matrix to dispose of. Signite decorations are applied with a specialist inline applicator developed by Actega, initially for glass straight-walled containers. The judging panel felt this to be a step change in the way label decorations are produced and a major contribution to industry sustainability.

The Innovation Award for companies with under 300 employees was awarded to S-OneLP for its ReEarth compostable flexible packaging films.  ReEarth films have achieved ASTM D6400 commercial compostability standards and are both BPI and USDA Biopreferred certified. A compostable print film, adhesive, and sealant layer make up this laminated structure that can be surface printed with digital or flexographic technologies. The judging panel felt that with more label converters diversifying into flexible packaging products, a fully compostable solution is a great aid to future packaging industry sustainability.

The Rising Star award is sponsored by Avery Dennison; the Environmental Sustainability award is sponsored by Labels & Labeling; the Innovation Award for companies up to 300 employees is sponsored by Flint Group Narrow Web; and the Innovation Award for companies over 300 is sponsored by Xeikon.

This coming October will see BOBST present its sustainability-ready technologies at three separate events across Europe. The company will be showcasing its extensive know-how and technical capabilities in substrate functionality and process performance, which enable converters to maximize opportunities and take transformative steps towards a circular economy.

In addition to daily presentations and displays at the K show in Düsseldorf, BOBST is extending its reach by inviting flexible packaging converters to visit two Open Houses at its European Competence Centers – one taking place in Bielefeld, Germany, and the other in Manchester in the UK.

“The focus at all three locations will be on exploring the possibilities for packaging manufacturers to proactively meet the fast-evolving market demands and their related challenges, not only in terms of sustainability but across all the elements of the BOBST Vision – connectivity, digitalization and automation,” explains Sara Alexander, Marketing & Communication Manager, Flexible Packaging at BOBST.

Barrier Paper Solutions Open House

Bobst Manchester, UK, 18 October 2022

The Manchester Open House will demonstrate the latest achievements in developing viable fibre-based packaging solutions. Aptly titled Barrier Paper Solutions: A New Opportunity for the Flexible Packaging Market, the event will take visitors step by step through the development of the FibreCycle solution by BOBST and the project ecosystem of partners, which comprises UPM and Michelman. Developed within the scope of the oneBARRIER family of solutions, it responds to the escalating interest in paper packaging and delivers an industrially viable mono-material paper solution that utilizes the synergies between wet dispersion coating and dry vacuum coating technologies to produce high-barrier, recycle-ready flexible packaging.

K 2022 Trade Fair

Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, 19–26 October 2022

Sustainability and connectivity will take center stage on the BOBST stand (Hall 4, A39) at K 2022 in Düsseldorf. Interactive displays and video presentations will show how BOBST is making sustainability in packaging a reality through groundbreaking innovations and exceptional support.

BOBST and partner companies Dow, Michelman, Sun Chemical and Zermatt will be on hand to discuss the development of the PE mono-material oneBARRIER PrimeCycle solution, a recycle-ready, industry-viable alternative to non-recyclable metallized film. The partners will illustrate how their contribution to the project guaranteed a successful result.

Visitors will also be brought up to date on other advances under the wide scope of the oneBARRIER project, including the extensive testing program that led to the introduction of the high-barrier and recycle-ready fibre-based oneBARRIER FibreCycle solution, which has been developed with UPM and Michelman. There will also be updates on other collaborative projects with different ecosystems of partnerships falling under the BOBST pillars of sustainability.

The capabilities of BOBST Connect will also be highlighted. The user-centric platform, which can be shared by all BOBST equipment, links all steps of the workflow processes, and improves efficiency, control and data knowledge to drive quality and productivity across the entire value chain.

One Complete Solution Open House

Bobst Bielefeld, Germany, 19–22 and 24–26 October 2022

The program of the Bielefeld event will demonstrate the unique advantage of BOBST as the only manufacturer that can provide all equipment and processes for end-to-end flexible packaging production. A very wide range of different integrated workflows, equipment and process combinations are gathered as “One Complete Solution” which will allow visitors to experience a fully optimized flexible packaging workflow in action: from pre-press and flexo plate production, through to automatic plate mounting and setting, printing on the VISION CI flexo press, quality control with BOBST DIT digital inspection table and solventless lamination on the NOVA SX 550 LAMINATOR. BOBST flagship MASTER CI flexo press featuring advanced robotics for a fully automated press setup will also be shown in a separate demonstration. All orchestrated by BOBST Connect.

“We are ready to show BOBST’s transformative technologies which will offer flexible packaging manufacturers new capabilities for improving the productivity, quality and sustainability of their processes and prepare their businesses for the future of packaging production,” concludes Sara Alexander.

To attend any of these events, register here: http://www.bobst.com/k2022.

Elk Grove Village, IL — SCREEN Americas announces the expansion of its existing partnership with Nilpeter. The arrangement includes Nilpeter providing sales, installation and support for SCREEN’s Truepress Jet L350UV SAI series in Latin America. Known for its exceptional print quality and durability, the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI series is a perfect fit for the region as demand for high-quality inkjet printing continues to grow.

The alliance will enable both companies to strengthen their presence in Latin America by providing printers with more options for high-quality, reliable printing equipment as well as more immediate service to their customers. For the team at SCREEN Americas, the partnership represents an opportunity to expand its reach into new markets and bring more value to printers, according to Vice President of Sales Dean Kenan, who manages the company’s Digital and Packaging Solutions division. “Our goal is to always provide our customers with best-in-class technology that meets their specific needs,” said Kenan. “Partnering with Nilpeter allows us to do just that.”

Headquartered in Denmark with offices in the United States and Brazil, Nilpeter has been providing solutions for the label and packaging industry for more than 100 years. Its office in São Paulo, Brazil, will be the point of contact for printers looking to achieve quality label production with an industry-proven press such as the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI. “In the past 25 years, we have sold and installed more than 1,000 Nilpeter presses in Latin America,” said Managing Director Rubens Wilmers of Nilpeter in Brazil. “This gives us a unique understanding of what our customers need to be successful.” As part of the agreement, Nilpeter will service these presses as well. 

The announcement coincides with Labelexpo Americas 2022 in Rosemont, Illinois, where several members of the Nilpeter team joined employees of SCREEN Americas in SCREEN’s booth to share the news with the show’s attendees and demonstrate the benefits of the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI series. The press prints up to 60 meters per minute on a variety of substrates using CMYK formulas with the option of adding white, blue and orange inks to the equation. It has been especially popular with label printers looking to achieve opacity on transparent substrates.

SCREEN Americas and Nilpeter began their coalition in the spring of 2019 when the two companies established a solution titled PANORAMA which combined Nilpeter’s flexographic capabilities with SCREEN’s digital inkjet solutions. PANORAMA is available as either a stand-alone or hybrid configuration. With this latest agreement, SCREEN Americas and Nilpeter look forward to building on their previous accomplishments in the years to come.

About SCREEN Americas
SCREEN Americas, a SCREEN Graphic Solutions group company established in 1967, is a leading provider of digital inkjet technology serving the commercial, publishing, direct mail, transactional, packaging, and label industries. In 2021, SCREEN Americas relocated its headquarters to Elk Grove Village, Illinois, with an upgrade that included a 14,000-plus square-foot Inkjet Innovation Center.

Middleton, WI – Environmentally responsible TwoFer® Twin Signage, is the newest addition to NAStar Inc.’s TwoFer Linerless Label Solutions product category.

TwoFer® Twin Signage, with two face stocks and no liner, is fully recyclable and supports sustainability goals of label converters and their customers with zero liner landfill waste.

Comprised of two recyclable face sheets temporarily secured adhesive sides together until ready to be applied, and no liner, TwoFer® Twin Store Signage is used as labels or in-store signage for End Cap, Wall, or Aisle Graphics.  Both sides can be duplex printed in one pass flexographically or digitally in rolls and sheets.

Providing secure adhesion to most surfaces and easy removal when the promotion is over, other applications include TwoFer® Shelf Talkers, recyclable, back-to-back Shelf Tags. Patent Pending TwoFer® FastFoldZ speed tag application at store level with no liner to discard. TwoFer® Ship/Return Labels for ecommerce distribution and TwoFer® Charity Labels for fund solicitation utilize permanent adhesive versions.

*United States Patent US 9,613,547 B2 Dual-Faced Labelling Systems

United States Patent US 10,217,385 B2 Dual-Faced Labelling Systems

www.nastar-inc.com

The new Fiery Impress DFE will be featured with Colordyne’s UV-LED and water-based inkjet print engines at Labelexpo Americas 2022.

Brookfield, WI – Converters have new, high-quality, cost-effective options for hybrid flexo/digital production of premium labels thanks to a new solution at Labelexpo Americas that delivers more power than ever before. Colordyne Technologies, a leading manufacturer of efficient, high-resolution digital inkjet printers and retrofits, is partnering with Fiery®, Electronics For Imaging’s industry-leading developer of advanced servers for digital color print production, to be the first manufacturer in the world delivering UV-LED and water-based inkjet solutions that feature the market-proven, high-end prep and processing workflow capabilities of the Fiery Impress™ digital front end (DFE).

Colordyne’s high-speed, high-resolution process color inkjet print engines on display in booth 5923 at the September 13-15 tradeshow feature the Fiery Impress DFE, a brand new, turnkey inkjet print server technology. Colordyne’s inkjet engines driven by Fiery print server technology offer premium quality inkjet production for durable UV-LED labels, as well as water-based ink printing ideal for food and beverage and other CPG brands seeking eco-friendly, sustainable labels. Customers can easily integrate Colordyne’s inkjet engines on existing flexo and converting equipment to create an affordable single-pass hybrid printing press or employ as a standalone digital production press. The print engines support up to 7 colors with options for CMYK, white and additional process colors.

Affordable next-level automation and color management

“Using Fiery Impress with our 3800 Series inkjet engines, converters can retrofit their existing flexo presses at approximately half the cost of a new hybrid narrow web press,” said Taylor Buckthorpe, director of sales and marketing, Colordyne Technologies. “The comprehensive set of integrated Fiery products add a wealth of capabilities throughout the print process, helping manufacturing facilities produce more with their presses. When it comes to next-level automation and color management, we look at Fiery as the strongest partner to work with. Together, we will help converters drive efficiencies, while increasing quality and reliability as they grow their businesses with digital print.”

With over 2 million servers installed worldwide, Fiery technology is the leading DFE in digital printing. The launch of the Impress DFE – a ready-to-go, off-the-shelf platform that requires less time and less cost for hardware integration – streamlines the process needed to bring Fiery technology to new industrial and packaging applications.

The new Fiery offering helps ensure users can complete more jobs per shift thanks to a suite of file preparation and make-ready tools to automate many prepress tasks. Fiery Impress technology efficiently handles color management, including extended color gamuts beyond CMYK while delivering accurate ink cost estimates to help converters ensure profitability. Additional available tools, such as Fiery JobFlow™ prepress automation workflow software, can eliminate manual step-and-repeat work to help converters get digital and hybrid jobs to press faster.

Full-featured digital and cloud capabilities

Converters can also take advantage of more opportunities in multi-SKU, versioning and serialization by using a Fiery Impress DFE streaming option which delivers powerful RIP-while-printing capabilities for continuous, high-volume, variable-data printing. The Fiery Impress DFE delivers consistent, predictable results that match a designer’s intent with industry-standard native Adobe PDF Print Engine processing and PDF 2.0 support – a key competitive advantage not available in other RIP solutions. Fiery Command WorkStation® – the #1 operator interface for digital print job management – comes standard with the Fiery Impress DFE. Plus, Colordyne 3800 Series users can use the server to connect with a full suite of free and paid EFI IQ™ cloud business intelligence and analytics solutions. The Fiery Impress DFE can also integrate with leading label and packaging MIS platforms, connecting converters’ digital operations to company-wide workflows.

“Fiery DFEs have long been known for delivering superior color, image quality and efficiency, and our Fiery Impress DFE brings those capabilities to new markets, including labels, packaging and inline manufacturing,” said John Henze, vice president of sales and marketing, EFI Fiery. “This exciting new partnership with Colordyne Technologies represents an important market opportunity that combines the industry’s leading DFE technology with Colordyne’s remarkable inkjet engines for hybrid and digital label converting.”

The Fiery Impress DFE is also the first technology for Colordyne equipment capable of supporting the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) for a native, end-to-end PDF workflow using the industry’s leading rendering technology. Support for APPE gives users the advantage of optimal output using the industry’s leading rendering technology, optimizing the appearance of transparency blends, overprinting, spot colors, trapping and more.

“The Fiery Impress DFE will open doors to new opportunities in manufacturing workflows, especially for labeled products,” said Mark Lewiecki, senior product manager, Adobe. “Colordyne customers will benefit from the power of the Adobe PDF Print Engine, built on the same Adobe technologies employed by Adobe Acrobat and Illustrator CC. The result is maximum reliability, from design to proof to final output. Adobe and EFI continue to bring innovative technologies to market. We are happy to see that Colordyne and its customers will show the way forward in this dynamic growth segment.”

With its new, advanced workflow, Colordyne’s retrofit technology at Labelexpo Americas is a reliable and effective upgrade in the power and flexibility converters need to meet new market opportunities.

“Inkjet is important for growth-minded flexo converters, but the bigger opportunity comes with color capabilities and workflow advantages over a basic inkjet integration,” according to industry analyst Marco Boer of I.T. Strategies. “In a crowded field where there are many niche digital inkjet integrators, choosing one that offers a robust DFE workflow and extended gamut inks at a competitive investment cost can create a differentiating advantage in label production.”

About Colordyne Technologies
Headquartered in Brookfield, WI, Colordyne Technologies is a leading manufacturer of high speed, high resolution and low capital cost UV-LED and water-based inkjet print engines. They are designed for integration onto existing printing and converting equipment to create an affordable hybrid production press. Colordyne Technologies recognizes the years of investments made into the people and equipment that make up a label converting press room. Colordyne’s unique retrofit approach to digital printing allows label converters to seamlessly integrate process color inkjet directly onto existing production lines at breakthrough speeds and without the loss of current press functionality. Visit www.colordynetech.com for additional information.

About EFI
EFI™ is a global technology company, leading the worldwide transformation from analog to digital imaging. We understand our customers want breakthrough technologies to lead them through their digital journey. That’s why we’re passionate about driving their business growth with a scalable portfolio of products, solutions, services, support, and world-class partnerships for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, building materials, commercial print, and personalized documents with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and workflow software. They work together to increase profits, cut costs, improve productivity, and optimize efficiency – job after job, year after year. We’re committed to our customers’ success. (www.efi.com)

As of September 1st, Technicote, a North-American company specializing in self-adhesive solutions, is the latest addition to Beonta growing family of international companies. The acquisition marks Beontag’s entry to the North American market, and is another step in its global expansion and internationalization strategy initiated in 2020. Besides the United States, Beontag has operations in other countries, such as Argentina, Uruguay, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, among others.

This acquisition is more than Beontag wanting to enter a new market. It was also motivated because of the broad network of customers that Technicote has had for more than four decades and the diversity of products they offer in the segments of graphic and self-adhesive materials. Their portfolio offers a wide range of self­ adhesive rolls and sheets, as well as solutions in silicone coated release liners and is a perfect fit for Beontag’s expanding international portfolio of products. Technicote will also be integrating many of those products into their North American range.

ABOUT TECHNICOTE
Technicote was established in 1980 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio to service local roll converters. Since then, the company has consolidated and expanded business across the North-American market, offering solutions to the whole sector. Now, Technicote has three business units, four factories and over 200 employees. It is ISO 9001 certified, ensuring high standards of manufacture, and offers FSC® certified products.

ABOUT BEONTAG
With over 37 years of market experience, Beontag has a wide portfolio of innovative and technological products that service the retail, industry, and service sectors both in Brazil and abroad.

With modern manufacturing facilities, permanent investment and a highly qualified team, the company has been expanding its business globally and is one of the largest and most respected self-adhesive companies in Latin America. It also operates in the technology sector and has a wide portfolio of Internet of T hings (IoT) solutions, focused on the manufacture of radiofrequency smart labels, as well as on the development of software for the integration of the logistics chain, traceability, and product authentication.

UPM Raflatac, a global supplier of innovative and sustainable labeling materials, announces plans to open a new state-of-the-art terminal in Vancouver, Washington early next year. The new facility will strengthen UPM Raflatac’s network of terminals across North America and expand the company’s slitting and distribution capacity. This investment will also further improve product quality, benefiting customers across the western U.S. and Canada.

“We chose Vancouver, Washington as the site of this new state-of-the-art facility because of its strategic location to best service our expanding customer base, as well as the growing market in the Pacific Northwest and in California,” stated Tim Kirchen, Senior Vice President, UPM Raflatac, Americas.

UPM Raflatac is continually investing in operational advancements that will enable the success of their customers and meet the growing demand for pressure sensitive labels. Their new terminal will house multiple slitters and a large warehousing space to enable storage of high-quality film and paper laminates, as well as specialty products.

“We will have a significant increase in slitting capacity for various label material types, including wine and food. This new facility will greatly benefit our current and future customers across the western U.S. We look forward to further cultivating these relationships and starting new ones,” stated Christian Szameit, West Region Sales Director, UPM Raflatac, Americas.

Construction on the new facility is underway, and production is expected to begin in the spring of 2023.

UPM Raflatac
UPM Raflatac is leading in sustainable labeling through our innovative self-adhesive label materials and services. We offer high-quality paper and film label stock for branding and promotion, informational labels, and labels with functionality. We operate a global network of factories, distribution terminals and sales offices. Our company employs around 3,000 people and made sales of EUR 1.7 billion (USD 1.9 billion) in 2021. UPM Raflatac is part of UPM. Find out how we are labeling a smarter future beyond fossils at www.upmraflatac.com.