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Kansas City, Missouri based Vanguard Companies announced the appointment of Zack Edelman as National Account Manager. Zack will draw on his years of strategic selling to grow revenue, while sustaining a high-level of integrity and accountability. “We look forward to having Zack join Vanguard Companies where his industry insight, retail expertise,…

An election is underway to fill one Member-at-Large position on the TAPPI Corrugated Packaging Council (CPC), the governing body of TAPPI’s Corrugated Packaging Division that develops strategic plans, press products and events. Voting is open until close of business Friday, August 16.  The open position is for a three-year term. Voting…

Ontario, California based NeilMed Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest makers of saline nasal irrigation systems in the world, has upgraded its press room with a new Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 41-inch 11-unit perfector press from their current Koenig & Bauer Rapida 105 41-inch six-color press. Germany-based Koenig & Bauer said…

Clicheria DP Studio, founded in 1990 in Londrina, in the northern region of Paraná, Brazil, serves customers in the label and flexible packaging sectors with photopolymer plates for flexo printing.  The operations cover the whole country, as well as Bolivia and Paraguay. In a new partnership with XSYS, DP Studio has…

Edale, the British manufacturer of flexographic presses for the carton and label sectors, is entering the Chinese market having secured a new deal with folding carton converter, KAVA.    Jiangsu, China-based KAVA is to install a flexo-based FL5 press and servo-driven web-fed FDC-600 flatbed die-cutter, creating a fully inline single-pass carton…

Atlanta, Georgia based DS Smith, a fiber-based packaging manufacturer, announced the launch of PackRight 2.0, a hybrid collaboration experience. The new offering features interactive workshops to help businesses in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), e-commerce and other industries innovate and enhance the sustainability of their packaging using DS Smith’s proprietary…

Price, Utah based Peczuh Printing & Paperbox announced that Brandon Henderson has joined the team at Vice-President of Sales to enhance their continued growth and expansion. Brandon is a seasoned sales leader with over 13 years of experience in the packaging industry. The company says he excels in high-growth, dynamic environments…

Burlington, Ontario based Kernic Systems announced the recent completion of the installation of a compact scrap recovery system for the new Norlands Box Company Corrugated Sheet Plant in Surrey, British Columbia. The compact, turn-key system is designed to handle scrap material from up to two production machines. This system includes a…

AF&PA’s Vice President of Industry Affairs, Terry Webber, will join the Sustainable Packaging Innovation Forum taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 29-30. The 2-day business conference will spotlight sustainable packaging solutions that work for consumers, the environment and business reality.  Terry will join more than 150+ key stakeholders to assess what…

According to the UN, only 15 percent of the Sustainable Development Goal targets are on track. In September 2023, UPM joined the UN Global Compact Forward Faster initiative to accelerate this pace. To demonstrate its commitment to the Climate Action initiative and help its customers reduce the carbon footprint of their…