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PaperWorks Industries, a leading North American integrated full-service packaging provider based in Philadelphia, will be adding a new 56" Rapida 142 seven-color press with UV capabilities to its facility in Mt. Gilead, NC. The press is due to be delivered in the next few days with a mid-March start-up date after installation and press training.

Don Sibley, Sibley Peteet Design; Donald Prust, Neiman Marcus; and Adrian Hasenbauer, Slingshot LLC, comment on the value of attending the Print Council’s "Print Delivers" event. Presenters shared the latest findings about print media effectiveness.  Sponsored by the Print Council and hosted by Williamson Printing, the event featured speakers from the U.S. Postal Service, Kodak, Heidelberg and Sappi.

KBA North America, a global press manufacturer, announces that Ulrich Wicke, the former web offset sales manager for the Spanish and South American markets, will be taking over the position of vice president of sales and service for the web offset division in North America while Heinz Schmid, who has been the vice president of web offset sales for KBA’s newspaper and commercial web market for an unsurpassed 30 years will remain with KBA North America an advisory position to the team.

DALLAS—Press manufacturer KBA North America has completed its move to the new 60,000-square-foot headquarters on the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport complex for all sheetfed and web operations. Holger Garbrecht, KBA North America president and CEO, said the consolidated location will allow sales, training, service and the parts department to interact and reach customers quickly and efficiently.

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