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Mike Jackson, president and CEO of Verso Paper Corp., accepts the American Forest and Paper Association's 2008 Environmental and Energy Achievement Award from Donna Harman, the association's president.
Verso Receives Top Environmental Award
Verso Paper Corp, Memphis, Tenn., was awarded the 2008 Environmental and Energy Achievement Award from the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA) for its work with the Bucksport Environmental Innovation Partnership (BEIP). The BEIP is a collaboration of Verso's Bucksport Mill in Maine, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the town of Bucksport, the University of Maine, environmental groups and citizens. The group was created to help the mill further reduce its environmental footprint.
The BEIP began with an agreement the mill reached with the DEP and EPA to identify and implement a series of plant-wide emissions reduction projects. The projects served in lieu of previously mandated air emissions control equipment for a gas turbine that was installed at the mill in 2001. The BEIP then evaluated nearly two dozen projects, approving eight at a cost to the Bucksport Mill of more than $4.3 million. These included technical improvements to all four of the mill's paper machines and the conversion to natural gas in one of the mill's boilers. The improvements reduced nitrogen oxide emissions by 30 percent, sulfur dioxide emissions by 54 percent, water use by 8 percent and sewer losses by 19 percent. The projected annual saving from these projects are $1.3 million, the company says.
versopaper.com
JUST OUT
Ward/Kraft Inc., Fort Scott, Kan., announced its expansion into stock process color gift cards and coordinated carriers. The new stock plastic card offering includes pre-printed cards in 12 different special occasion or holiday themes, process color printed on 30-mil. composite plastic. Cards can be customized on the back of any design in black ink. The cards feature magnetic stripes compatible with most encoding formats. Stock carriers are printed in colors and designs to complement stock card themes. Carriers are available in two sizes and are shipped pre-scored and flat.
The company also announced an expanded suite of long run security label options, which now includes anti-fraud deterrent technologies for face stock printing and embedded deterrent substrate solutions. Face stock printing options include chemical sensitivity coatings, five copy resistant stains, embedded security fibers, toner adhesion coatings and custom watermarking. Embedded solutions now include thread that places structured magnetic threads into paper label substrates as the label paper is made. Embedded solutions also include security threads made from polyester, metalized film, de-metalized film, magnetic and fiber optic materials. Another embedded option integrates an invisible mark into the paper, which appears when the label is scanned with a special pen. Finally, the company is offering machine readable taggants that allow equipment such as printers to communicate with a host device to suspend printing until the label taggant is recognized and accepted.
wardkraft.com
SanMar Corp., Seattle, recently debuted its 2009 apparel and accessories catalog. With 452 pages featuring more than 875 products, this year's catalog is the largest to date. New products include six styles from sports-licensed headwear company New Era and knits from Port Authority and Sport-Tek. Under an agreement reached earlier this year, SanMar is the exclusive supplier of New Era to the corporate identity market. SanMar has also added 18 new outerwear styles, ranging from lightweight soft shells to heavyweight parkas.
sanmar.com
Needle-trap.
Schreiner MediPharm, Blauvelt, N.Y., introduced the Needle-Trap system to help prevent accidental needlestick injuries to healthcare providers from disposable syringes.
The system features an integrated safety mechanism that is a component of the self-adhesive syringe label. The design allows the needle to be safely and easily secured after it has been used and enables healthcare providers to use the same injection technique and disposal process as before, the company says. The Needle-Trap labels can be integrated into conventional labeling systems and are adaptable to the most common syringe types. Needle-Trap can also provide optional detachable documentation labels to reduce the risk of medication errors. This functional label innovation has received FDA 510(k) clearance for marketing in the U.S. and has won an award from FINAT, the international label manufacturers' and converters' association.
schreiner-medipharm.com
SATO, Charlotte, N.C., announced the release of Label Gallery 3, its labeling software series. It features two new software development kits, improved printing control, Unicode compliance, and Windows CE.NET support for mobile devices. The Label Gallery 3 software series includes Free, the basic edition of Easy, the full version Plus and the high-end solution TruePro, which is also offered in a pocket or a network version. New with Label Gallery 3 are two developer series offerings, including Label Gallery SDK for PCs and Label Gallery Pocket SDK for mobile devices. Label Gallery is now Unicode-compliant in all modules for multilingual label printing and has been rewritten on the Windows CE.NET compact framework. The new version supports a wider range of mobile devices and allows for easier upgrades and modifications, the company says.
satoamerica.com
SERVICES
Mohawk Fine Papers Inc., Cohoes, N.Y., is now a member of the Economic Chamber North in the Forest Stewardship Council International (FSC). The FSC organization consists of three international chambers: economic, social and environmental. Members participate in the general assembly, the highest decision-making component of the FSC, where they take part in the process of standard setting, election of the board of directors, and voting on motions to determine the direction of FSC activities.
mohawkpaper.com
Business card-sized magnets from PrintingForLess.com.
PrintingForLess.com, Livingston, Mont., now carries business card-sized magnets with 4-color printing on high quality magnet stock and a protective aqueous coating. The glossy magnets can be printed with existing business card designs or customized.
printingforless.com
GrayHair Software Inc., Mt. Laurel, N.J., received U.S. Postal Service certification as an NCOALink Limited Service Provider. This certification allows GrayHair to offer the technology as part of its mail tracking and address services. NCOALink processing uses data derived from the USPS change of address (COA) database, using a secure process enhancing the security of COA information. NCOALink technology allows mailers to update lists with address changes before they are entered into the mail stream.
grayhairsoftware.com
Ford Printing & Mailing Inc., City of Industry, Calif., installed a Presstek 52DI digital offset press for its color printing runs from 250 to 20,000. Ford selected the 52DI to better service their traditional customer base of trade printers and to "differentiate ourselves from the competition as we reach out to new markets with direct mail programs and cost-effective, high quality offset printing," the company said.
fpmdirect.com
Diamond 6000LX
Orange County Container Group, City of Industry, Calif., replaced its 7-color, 56-inch carton press with a 56-inch Mitsubishi Diamond 6000LX press equipped for inline aqueous and ultraviolet coating. The Diamond 6000LX prints on 0.004-inch to 0.040-inch stock at high speed, including packaging board and synthetic substrates. The 8-color press is expected to enhance the OCC Group's reputation for providing creative and cost-effective packaging solutions, the company says. It can print on thermoplastic materials used in the creation of lenticular images. The OCC Group specializes in retail and industrial corrugated manufacturing, graphic packaging and point-of-purchase displays.
orangecountycontainer.com
Design and Graphic Art of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, a 21-year-old commercial printing company, added a Mitsubishi Diamond 3000LS sheetfed press to its equipment lineup. The highly automated five-color, 40-inch press features an inline coating unit and delivery extension. The Mitsubishi IPC II intelligent press control provides touch screen control of all press functions for makeready, startup, job changeover and quality assurance. Design and Graphic Art of Monterrey is able to offer its clients faster turnarounds and greater quality as a result of the installation.
FYI
RPI, Seattle, announced the expansion of its executive team and corporate offices. The administrative staff includes new executives Russell Nickel as chief financial officer, Rick Bellamy as chief information officer and Gary Horsfall as vice president of manufacturing. RPI's new corporate facility is located at 12720 Gateway Drive South, Building 7, Suite 212, Tukwila, Wash., 98168.
rpiprint.com
SUPPLIER NEWS
HP, Palo Alto, Calif., has introduced the industry's first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, which can serve as a replacement platform for mainframe applications in finance and telecommunications industries. The HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem uses the same amount of power as existing NonStop server offerings, the NB50000c delivers twice the performance and occupies half the data center space while offering 35 percent lower cost of ownership than competing offerings and up to a 50 percent decrease in cost per transaction, the company says.
The company also announced a comprehensive set of consulting services designed to help communications companies improve their competitiveness as they adapt to the convergence of telecom, IT and entertainment. Building on its experience in these industries, HP has created Solutions Consulting Services (SCS), which offers portfolio management, financial evaluations and product and process consulting. With HP SCS, communications service providers can identify new revenue opportunities, enhance the customer experience, improve operational efficiency and manage the risks of new technology implementation.
hp.com
Neenah Paper Inc., Alpharetta, Ga., completed the sale of its Pictou pulp mill to Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, a new operating company of Atlas Holdings LLC and Blue Wolf Capital Management LLC. As part of the agreement, Neenah Paper paid an initial $1.8 million to Northern Pulp at closing. A second and final payment of $10 million will be made in the third quarter. In return, Northern Pulp has assumed all assets and liabilities associated with the Pictou operations, as well as existing customer contracts, supply agreements, labor agreements and pension obligations. Following this sale, Neenah will become a pure premium paper and specialty products company and will no longer own any pulp mills. The company will continue to own 500,000 acres of timberlands in Nova Scotia and has announced its intent to sell these timberlands within the next 12 months.
neenah.com
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