Brothers Pal and Robbie Dhanjui

Rod Froment VP & COO and Darrell Friesen CEO with Mosaic printed cans

Jet Label & Packaging Ltd., Western Canada’s largest producer of labels and printed tape turned 20 by turning refreshments at its anniversary celebration into uniquely labelled libations. The feat was accomplished with Mosaic printing Mosaic is short for HP SmartStream Mosaic, which can create countless unique-to-unit labels from a finite number of original designs. 

The on again off again deal

The increasingly messy dispute between Fujifilm and Xerox has just gotten really bad. With Fujifilm launching a $1 billion lawsuit against Xerox for the abandon $6.1 billion merger agreed to in January. Fujifilm is also seeking a termination fee of $183 million  if the deal does not go through .

Makers of the Kluge letterpress

Circulation of 4.5 million

St. Joseph Communications announced  the acquisition of Totem, a content agency, from Yellow Pages Ltd. Totem will now operate under Strategic Content Labs, the custom content arm of St. Joseph Media that creates print and digital products for clients such as  the Canadian Automobile Association  ( CAA Magazine with circulation of 4.5 million) .Other clients include Acura USA  , The Hockey News , British Airways, Porter, Eurostar, Mandarin Hotels and The London Magazine.

Plants in Ottawa and Mississauga

Lowe-Martin has let go or laid  off about 30 staff and has tightened expenses . The have also  temporarily rolled back wages . They have put a freeze on discretionary expenses. This belt tightening comes as a result of several factors happening at the same time. The installation of a new ERP system has had major problems, installation of a new Goss Web has taken longer than expected and a short fall of sales expecations all effected the bottom line.

Print Show in Chicago named one of fastest growing shows in US

left to right: Kevin Graham – Cansel Sales Rep, David Sayej –CVS and Agim Bekteshi- CVS

 SwissQPrint  Nyala LED purchased through Cansel. It is has  6 colour + White and Varnish (CMYKlclm –White and Varnish) .Creative Visual Solutions (CVS) will be using it  for P.O.P, Displays, as well as some specialty applications with the Varnish up to 10’ wide. It will be  adding higher quality prints at much higher speeds, as well as the ability to do some unique applications with spot varnish.

Edwards Brothers Mallory plant Ann Arbour Michigan

Goss Metro press shutting down at Calgary plant