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CONTENTS Volume 53, Number 1 Features

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Celebrating Canadian Print The eighth annual Canadian Printing Awards gala in late-November recognizes world-class printing, environmental progress and individual industry achievement

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Faces of Print More than 300 printers and suppliers from across North America come together to support the future of Canadian printing

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Gold Standard An independent judging panel poured over 225-plus submissions to determine the top environmental and quality printing projects

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NEWS TC Transcontinental spends $75 million for 74 Sun Media newspapers, Bay Psalm Book fetches $14.2 million at auction, and Newsweek plans for a return to print

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Calendar February 2014 World Association of Newspapers explores the future in Stockholm, Sign China Expo 2014 covers 130,000 square feet, and Graphics of the Americas begins in Miami Beach

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SHOW Graphics Canada 2013 A pictorial report of many of the printers and suppliers who attended the late-November biannual tradeshow at the International Centre in Toronto

PrintAction magazine, organizers of the 8th annual Canadian Printing Awards, would like to thank all of this year’s award recipients, gala attendees and sponsors for supporting continued printing innovation and success in Canada.

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Victoria Gaitskell Can Your Package Really be Recycled or Composted?

A look inside the Peel Integrated Waste Management Plant and its new plastics approach in serving over 330,000 households and 80,000 multiresidential units

Archive

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January 1999 Eleven countries replace their national currencies with the Euro, Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, and Quebecor purchases Sun Media for $983 million

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PERSPECTIVE

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anada Post in early December introduced a Five-Point Action Plan in an effort to return to financial sustainability by 2019, which most significantly includes the elimination of home delivery and anywhere from 6,500 to 8,000 jobs. The initiative, that can be described as a restructuring of Canada’s mail system, opens up new opportunities for private businesses, but it clearly presents new challenges to printing and allied industries.

The Crown corporation’s plan comes eight months after an April 2013 study by the Conference Board of Canada that projected Canada Post’s financial loss would reach $1 billion by 2020 unless fundamental changes were made. In its 2012 Annual Report, Canada Post reported that Canadians mailed almost one billion fewer pieces of domestic letter-mail in 2012 than they did in 2006.

Once fully implemented in five years, Canada Post estimates its new postal approach will improve the bottom line anywhere from $700 to $900 million per year, relative to the current system. The first pillar of the 5-point plan, to convert the entire nation onto a community mailbox delivery system, is expected to provide the majority of these savings at around $400 to $500 million per year. The elimination of home mail delivery, which is still enjoyed by approximately one third of all Canadian households, will present significant challenges to commercial printing, particularly in sectors like direct mail.

These challenges become larger still within Canada Post’s second pillar of its 2019 action plan to increase the pricing of domestic letter-mail, a measure projected to add $160 to $200 million to the bottom line. On March 31, 2013, Canada Post will introduce a tiered pricing structure for domestic letter-mail in which stamps purchased in booklets or coils will cost $0.85 each and then $1 each when purchased individually.

As its third pillar, Canada Post plans to open up more franchise postal outlets in retail businesses across Canada, which is expected to contribute $40 million to $50 million to its bottom line. Streamlining operations is the term used to describe Canada Post’s fourth new pillar, which includes technology updates like faster sorting equipment, more centralized distribution, and running fuel-efficient vehicles.

This fourth pillar is expected to contribute $100 to $150 million, annually, to the bottom line. The fifth pillar of Canada Post’s five-year plan is to address its cost of labour, which will result in a labour force reduction of between 6,000 and 8,000 positions. The average age among current Canada Post employees is 48.

An update on the latest flexographic trends and technologies

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PRINT NEWS thick, reaching a maximum speed of 1,011 square feet per hour and an apparent resolution of 1,200 dpi. Founded in 1964, Simpson Screen Print today produces a range of commercial and large-format work through several production processes, including traditional screen printing, offset, toner and inkjet.

& Vreeland began a significant push into the Canadian market in 2012 and has since established locations in Montreal and Mississauga. The distributor is to represent the entire Esko product line in the country, including all hardware and software for packaging and labels, sign and display, commercial printing and professional publishing.

United Precision Cutting Technologies of Toronto purchased Wades Bindery Repair Service Ltd. based in Cambridge, Ontario, as celebrated by John White, Wade Sears, Dwane Sears, Mark Pellman of Baum Corporation USA, and Mitch Rich of United Precision. Brothers Wade and Dwane Sears, who started their company in 1986, are to continue on with United Precision. Rich, after founding Duracut Machine Knife in 1997, began in late-2010 to merge Duracut with three others companies, including United Press & Bindery, Precision Systems and then Graphic Equipment to form United Precision.

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Mary Phillips Hadfield, Co-founder of Kwik Kopy, passed away at her home near Tomball, Texas, on November 26, 2013. She was 83. Hadfield was born September 1930, in Michigan, but grew up in Waco, Texas, moving to Houston in 1954 after graduating from Baylor University. Four years later, she met her eventual husband and business partner, Bud Hadfield. The two wed in 1960 and were married for 50 years until Bud’s death in 2011. In 1967, Bud and Mary Hadfield together launched Kwik Kopy Corporation, which is now one of the world’s largest quick-printing franchises.

Bay Psalm Book, proclaimed as the first book printed in North America, recently fetched a record US$14.2 million at auction with its purchase by David Rubenstein, founder of The Carlyle Group. The book is not only known as a symbol of Puritanism, but also as an icon of the founding of America. Rubenstein’s copy of the Bay Psalm Book is one of 11 surviving copies. It was produced in 1640

by British colonials in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Originally 1,700 copies were printed. The last copy that sold at auction was in 1947 for a sum of $151,000.

Printing Industries of America, led by CEO Michael Makin, is closing its technical training facility in Pittsburgh and moving all education programing online for 2014, in an effort to reduce costs. The PIA renovated its training facility for research and education in May of 2005, which added 10,000 square feet to the existing building. It currently houses a Heidelberg Speedmaster 102, a Heidelberg Printmaster 46, a Xerox iGen4, a Konica Minolta bizhub PRESS C8000, a Ricoh C901S, an Océ Arizona 360GT UV, and prepress and finishing equipment.

Sascha Brandhorst, Managing Director of Neo7even GmbH, and Christopher Berti, Head of Product Management for Prinect at Heidelberg, celebrate the signing of a new contract in which Heidelberg has invested in Neo7even to gain a foothold in multi-channel publishing.

Neo7even has 50 employees based in Siegen, Germany. Heidelberg explains Neo7even software will allow print shops to store all the data for a project centrally in a neutral format on a database and publish it in a standardized way on various media channels.

Life Like Imaging installed a new Agfa Anapurna M2540 flatbed inkjet system into its Mississauga facility, as celebrated by Ron Fogarty, Andy Infelise, Agfa’s James Burghgraef, Paul Infelise and Heath Lalonde. The Agfa Anapurna M2540, with a pin register bed size of Anderson & Vreeland becomes an au- 8.3 x 5 feet, reaches speeds of up to 484 thorized reseller of Esko products in square feet per hour in Express Mode. In Canada, extending the United States- what Agfa classifies as Production Mode, based partnership between the two com- the UV-curable inkjet printer reaches a panies, which began in 2008. Anderson speed of 301 square feet per hour.

K-North Services of Georgetown, Ontario, reached a co-marketing agreement to offer and service the full line of Brausse Group’s converting equipment in eastern Canada, as celebrated by Peter Boyle, Service Manager at K-North Services; Mark Caffary, GM of Brausse; Steve Ranson, President of K-North Services; and Alan Thompson, VP of Sales and Marketing for Brausse. Headquartered in Richmond, BC, Brausse’s equipment range primarily falls into three categories, including die-cutting and creasing, foil stamping, and folder/gluers.

Postmedia Network finalized a deal to have TC Transcontinental print the Vancouver Sun newspaper, following an earlier announcement that the printer would also produce the Calgary Herald.

Postmedia had been investigating the possibility of building a new plant to print the Vancouver Sun and The Province in house, while also negotiating with the Local 2000 union about an expiring collective agreement on November 30.

The new Vancouver Sun agreement is to span five years beginning in early 2015.

BOSS Logo, a Toronto-area trade printer, installed a new Esko Kongsberg cutter as part of its expansion efforts into large-format printing. The table has an automatic sheet feeder and take-up system, as well as the roll-sheet-feeder option to unwind on top of the Kongsberg table’s bed. The company, founded in 1995 in Markham, has also invested in i-cut Layout and ArtiosCAD soft- François Olivier, President and CEO ware to accompany the Kongsberg. of TC Transcontinental, reached a $75 million agreement, through TC Media, to purchase 74 Quebec-based community newspapers and associated online properties owned by Sun Media, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media. Olivier expects the transaction to add around $20 million to TC Transcontinental’s operating income. Commencing on or about February 1, TC Transcontinental will also start to print some of Quebecor Media’s magazines and direct-marketing materials.

Digital Imaging Association’s annual holiday luncheon at The Boulevard Club on Toronto’s lakeshore featured a keynote from Andrew Davis, Co-founder of multimedia agency Tippingpoint Labs, and dozens of printing professionals from across the region. The DIA also introduced its Executive Committee for 2014, including: President Jana Lucatch of Magnum Fine Commercial Printing; First VP Paul McCarthy of Konica Minolta; Second VP Dino Sinnathurai of Kempenfelt Group; Treasurer Mark Norlock of KBA; and Past President Ed Rooney of The Lowe-Martin Group.

Simpson Screen Print & Lithography of Bloomingdale, Ontario, installed a 6-colour Screen Truepress Jet W1632UV flatbed inkjet system, which actually took place back in August 2013. The Truepress Jet W1632UV is the first Screen-branded wide-format UV inkjet printer jointly developed with Screen’s group company Inca Digital. It accepts media formats up to 62.9 x 125.9 inches and 1.9 inches

Media Resources of Toronto installed a MultiCam 3000 Series CNC router, measuring 80 x 144 inches. Founded in 1967, and formerly called Grant Signs, Media Resources also has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Miami, San Diego and New York, collectively employing over 140 staff members. The company describes itself as a specialist at paper and flex banners, custom 2D and 3D billboards, digital LED panels and large-format printing.

Newsweek, under the new ownership of IBT Media since May 2013, is planning to resurrect its weekly print edition this January or February, just over a year after its former owner moved the 80-year-old property into online-only news. Newsweek was first published in February 1933 and had been printed by Quad Graphics since 1977. IBT Media expects to produce an initial 64-page weekly edition, according to The New York Times, with a goal of reaching a print circulation of 100,000 subscribers before 2015.

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The Canadian Marketing Association hosts a half-day seminar at The Advocates’ Society in Toronto to take an in-depth look at Canada’s anti-spam law and to share compliance tips. $395*

Digital Signage Expo 2014 takes place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, which includes a full day of pre-show education on the 11th and an awards gala at the Paris Casino.

Sign China Expo 2014 begins in Guangzhou with 13 exhibition halls covering 130,000 square feet of space, expected to hold 1,800 exhibitors and brands, as well as around 80,000 visitors.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers hosts the DagsVara 2014 conference in Stockholm to explore best practices and innovative strategies for newspapers.

SGIA runs its first of three free signage Webinars in February focused on Ways to Grow, followed by Who is Responsible for Correct Colour on the 19th, and Water-based Garment Inks on the 26th of February.

Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Florida, which includes over 50 seminars and a Landa Nanography keynote. $369*

Printing Industries of America hosts its Automation Solutions Network Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida, with a tour of the DME agency focusing on variable data production. $395*

The Digital Marketing Certificate Course organized by the Canadian Marketing Association begins in Toronto, continuing until May 15, with what is described as practical hands-on training. $2,435*

RISI is holding its first Forest Products Investment Conference in New York City geared toward investors and analysts tracking forest products companies, as well as landowners, endowments and forest products producers.

3D Printshow USA, following earlier European stops in London and Paris, takes place at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, with exhibitors and workshops. $75*

Stockholm, Sweden is the most populus city in the Scandinavian peninsula.

Founded in 1250, the city today is spread across 14 islands in the southeast of Sweden. Comprised of 26 municipalities, the Stockholm metropolitan area has two million citizens, which represents 22 percent of the country’s population. It is the cultural centre of Sweden, home to over 100 museums, earning it the nickname of Venice of the North.

Pricing listed at standard rates, with * denoting the availability of member or early bird discounts.

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PRINT SHOW

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rinting professionals from across Canada travelled to Greater Toronto in late November to take in three days of the biannual Graphics Canada tradeshow. “By all indications, visitor quality was high and many exhibitors reported good leads and sales of equipment,” reported Dan Mustata, Show Manager of Graphics Canada.

If you were unable to attend the show, or want a refresher on what technologies were on display, check out PrintAction’s November 2013 issue (also available online) in which 50 exhibitors describe specific show highlights of both new and established products.

KBR Graphics’ Steve Klaric, Stephanie Balayan, Sergey Krantsevich, Wen Bian of Graphic Whizard, and Karl Belafi Jr. of KBR

Preston Herrin, Selin Arakelian, Jose Valencia, Nancy Movsisyan, Todd Kamali and Varaz Gharakhanian

Members of Pitney Bowes’ Graphics Canada team

Dylan Westgate and Michael Steele of Sydney Stone

The team from Sina Lite: Megaera Bonsall, Mithun Rajendram, Ashley Mok, Angela Chau, Alina Esmatyar, Mike Meshkati, Lesley Baston, Brian Meshkati, Liza Lam, Andrew Cox, and Marc Arsenault

Steve McClinton and Bernard Hellen of Cascades Fine Papers

Jackie and Dave Kisiloski of Pressdown Services

Andrea Adams and Dan Huff of Multiple Pakfold Business Forms

James and Leo Sciarrino of Custom Colour Imaging & Publishing with Esko’s Marc Raad

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Slava Apel of Amazing Print Tech

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Dan Crnarich of EFI

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Fujifilm’s David Friberg, Steve Davies, Mace Hoover, Nat Parente, Tony Karg, Joe Furman, Dan Hess, Frank Skupien, Graham Douglas, Jay Lalonde, Christian Trudeau, and Pierre Proulx

Kapil Sunak of BOSS Logo

Robbie and Pal Dhanju of MPI Print

Richard Tung of Printers’ Parts & Equipment

Dave Roberts and Richard Oluszak of Shelf Talkers Manufacturing

Proveer’s Cristin McNeely, Janet Carmichael, Diana Ward, Karl Budhoo, Michael Ash and Roger Tsai

Linda Nutbrown and Stephen Bard of Bard Business Solutions

Masterwork USA’s Shuai Liu, Zhi Hai Shen, Carol Jiang and Chao Wu

Terry C. Stapley’s Bob Brickell, Lynda Brickell and Bob Brickell Jr.

Wade Sears of United Precision and Mark Pellman of Baumfolder

Laura Parro and Karen Tran of 3L Display

Jay Nazir, President of EZ Trade Signs

Rachelle MacKell and Denise Campbell of DFS All Trade

Jay Mandarino of C.J. Graphics and Dean McElhinney of Unicom Graphics

Ricoh Canada’s Chris Porter and Shekar Saminathan

Josh Perkins of Avanti demonstrates Slingshot MIS

Mary Jakubowski, Emily Wong, Martin Habekost, Emma Blanchard and Elina Shafigullina of Ryerson’s GCM program

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VICTORIA GAITSKELL

Can Your Package Really be Recycled or Composted?

N owhere is the environmental impact of packaging more obvious than at a waste and recycling plant. So last fall, when the Regional Municipality of Peel announced an expansion of its Blue Box Recycling Program, I visited the Peel Integrated Waste Management Facility – the largest plant of its kind in Canada, situated on a 16-hectare site in Brampton, Ontario – to clarify which types of packaging have recently become recyclable. I also got the scoop directly from Kevin Mehlenbacher and Karyn Hogan, both professionals at the Waste Management Division of Peel’s Public Works Department, on how printers can know that the packaging they produce is environmentally sustainable.

The Peel plant serves the Cities of Brampton and Mississauga and the Town of Caledon, comprising a total of some 330,000 households and 80,000 multi-residential units. The plant houses a waste transfer station (to transfer black-bagged garbage from collection trucks onto long-haul trailers destined for a landfill site), a massive organics composting operation (to process kitchen organics collected via curbside Green Bins and yard waste), and a single-stream Material Recovery Facility (MRF, the recycling part of the operation), with a capacity to process 130,000 tonnes of recyclable material collected from curbside Blue Boxes annually. The term “single stream” means that households

mix together in the Blue Boxes all recyclable items, including packaging made of paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum, steel, and plastics; then this mixture is carried by collection trucks to the plant for sorting.

Kevin Mehlenbacher, Specialist, Waste Collection and Processing, explains that, after the collection trucks drop the mixed recyclables off at MRF’s tipping floor, a front-end loader pushes them onto two inclined conveyor belts that transport them through a sequence of machinery and rooms for mechanical and manual sorting. In mechanical sorting, appliances like screens, magnets and air jets are used to sort the recyclables into individual streams, each consisting of one type of material. This process is aided by some 120 temporary workers, divided into two eight-hour shifts, who help sort the recyclables as they speed by on the fast-moving conveyor belts and remove any stray objects that would contaminate the sorted materials. Finally, two balers form each of the sorted materials into bales, which are shipped out to secondary markets via transport trucks.

Inside the Peel Integrated Waste Management Facility serving the Cities of Brampton and Mississauga and the Town of Caledon.

products, • Large clear plastic tubs, lids and trays used for salads, cakes, delicatessen foods and cooked chickens, • Clear plastic egg cartons, • Take-out containers and microwaveable trays, • Garden nursery pots, cells, trays and flats, • Plastic vitamin and prescription bottles, and • Thermoform blister packaging.

Other major Canadian cities and municipalities, including Calgary, Durham, Halifax, Halton, Hamilton, London, Niagara, Ottawa, Toronto and York, also recycle these items, which formerly had to be captured from the Peel MRF’s post-recycled waste by reprocessing at another recycling facility. Mehlenbacher says Peel’s waste composition audits indicate that processing these mixed rigid plastics at the MRF will capture an additional 1,600 to 2,100 tonnes of plastic per year – another of the continuous positive steps Peel is making towards its goal of recycling 70 percent of its waste by 2016.

The processing of the additional plastics has cost Peel around $3,107,500 in Newly recyclable items Mehlenbacher explains Peel has now capital improvements to the MRF’s sortexpanded the list of items that can be ing equipment, plus about an additional recycled via its Blue Box Program to $330,000 annually for increased operating costs. Likely Peel will recover half include all mixed rigid plastics, such as: of the capital-improvement costs from • Clear clamshell packaging used the Continuous Improvement Fund, a for fruits, vegetables and bakery

partnership program of Waste Diversion Ontario, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, the City of Toronto and Stewardship Ontario to improve Ontario’s municipal Blue Box Programs.

Markets for recycled materials

Mehlenbacher says the MRF typically sends out 15 to 20 trailers of recovered materials a day, bound for destinations that vary in distance from a few blocks away to as far as China. “China is a growing economy, so they are looking for raw materials,” he says. “For example, if our local newsprint recycling facility is not able to take the full amount we generate, we send the surplus to Quebec, the States, or overseas.” He reports that the sale of recycled materials earns $10 to $15 million in annual revenues which help offset the MRF’s other waste-management costs.

Karyn Hogan, Specialist, Waste Reduction and Reuse, explains that, besides improving the MRF’s recycling rate, another main reason why Peel has recently added mixed rigid plastics to its Blue Box Program is that staff finally found a secondary market for these materials.

She says access to end-markets often determines which materials a municipality can recycle, and the search is complicated by the fact that municipalities must compete with manufacturers as vendors to the same markets.

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George Mazzaferro

Jack Youngberg

Founder & CEO, RP Graphics Group

Founder, Somerset Graphics

Alexandra Djukic

Manager of Social Enterprise, Phoenix Print Shop

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Dylan Westgate

Managing Director, Sydney Stone

Photo by Clive Chan

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Celebrating

Canadian Print More than 300 people from across North America, as well as a few guests from overseas, attended PrintAction’s November 21 gala to celebrate world-class achievement in the eighth annual Canadian Printing Awards. The program is divided into three distinct sections, including Environmental Printing, Quality Printing and Industry Achievement.

Members of our distinguished judging panel, including seven returnees, agreed submissions into the current program held the highest quality of print to date. This year also received the highest number of submissions – over 225 – in the program’s history. Five rounds of voting and debate were needed to determine the 2013 Best of Show project (page 16).

PrintAction’s team determined this year’s Industry Achievement award winners, presented to individuals who made an extraordinary impact on Canada’s printing industry over the past year, while also considering their own track record of success. Two individuals received the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, named after the publication’s founder, John A. Young.

John A. Young Lifetime Achievement Award Gaetano Gagliano Jack Youngberg

Founder, St. Joseph Communications

Founder, Somerset Graphics

Printing Leader of the Year George Mazzaferro Founder & CEO, RP Graphics Group

Emerging Leader of the Year Dylan Westgate Managing Director, Sydney Stone

Community Leader of the Year Alexandra Djukic

Manager of Social Enterprise, Phoenix Print Shop

All five Industry Achievement winners will be profiled in successive issues of PrintAction.

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Corey Clancy of Somerset Graphics and Matthew Alexander of Colour Innovations

Steve Ranson of K-North Services, Sue Baines of Komori and Jack Youngberg of Somerset

Steve Marshall of Sun Chemical Canada

Kodak’s Greg Running, Mike Halliwell and John Gvazdaitis

Bob Corner of Spicers with Todd and Peter Cober of Cober Evolving Solutions

manroland Sheetfed’s Gina Gigliozzi, Sean Springett and Sera Biancucci

Bill Wilson of Heidelberg Canada

George Mazzaferro of RP Graphics, PrintAction’s 2013 Printing Industry Leader of the Year

Karl Belafi Jr. and Stephanie Balayan of KBR Graphics

Paul Tasker of Spicers

Harry Johnston, Carol Jiang and Alain Ciclet of Masterwork USA, platinum sponsor of the 2013 Canadian Printing Awards

Mike and Dean Froome of M&T Printing, and Tony Karg of Fujifilm

Javed Abbas, Charles Morale and Emilio Mazzonna of St. Joseph Communications

More than 80 awards were presented at the November 21 gala to celebrate printing, environmental progress and individual achievement

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Jay Page of Somerset Graphics, Dick Kouwenhoven of Hemlock and Rich Pauptit of Flash Reproductions

Andrew Likakis of Somerset Graphics, Dave Rose of Wellington Printworks, Suzanne Olley of Lowe-Martin and Simon Spina of Advertek

Steve McClinton of Cascades Fine Papers

Louise Kralka of PDI Group and Richard Kouwenhoven of Hemlock Printers Stacy Daley of ASL Print FX, Lisa Feeney of C.J. Graphics, Alain Paquette of Artcraft Label, and Gord Griffiths of Lowe-Martin

Patrick Coyne of Lowe-Martin

John Gagliano accepting the John A. Young Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of his father, Gaetano Gagliano

Jay Page of Somerset Graphics

Ray D’Antonio of St. Joseph and Christian Morin of Impart Litho

Nikos Kallas of MET Fine Printers

Sam Mueller of Simpson Screen Print and Kevin Cross of Compuset

David Allen of Rhino Print, Scott Gray of MET, Claudio Castricone of RP Graphics, and Michael Renaud of Lowe-Martin

Curwin Friesen of Friesens Corp.

Ralph Misale of Eclipse Imaging, Martin Johanns of Simpson Screen Print and Koko Boudakian of Image Four

Richard Armstrong of Heidelberg Canada speaks about the importance of scholarships through the CPISTF

Lynda Mullen and Ward Spencer of C.J. Graphics, Don Robinson of Heidelberg Canada, and Ed Rooney of Lowe-Martin

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Best of Show

MET Fine Printers Nike TECH PACK Nike TECH PACK, received a Gold Award in the category of Books, sheetfed offset.

The panel of nine Canadian Printing Awards judges, after collecting their favourite pieces, then needed five rounds of voting to determine this year’s Best of Show award, chosen from the more than 225 entries. MET Fine Printers produced the project on its UV, 40-inch manroland after more than 50 press checks.

Canadian Printing Awards Judging Process The 2013 Canadian Printing Awards (CPA) program was expanded to better account for the challenges of employing different production processes for specific print applications, such as dividing books into offset and digital categories, catalogues into sheetfed and web, and packaging into rigid and flexible.

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kets lead to the conversion of recycled materials into an almost infinite variety of consumer goods: “For instance, 240 plastic jugs can be remade into one plastic Muskoka chair. Nine 2-litre pop bottles make one extra-large polyester t-shirt.”

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In conjunction with expanding its Blue Box Program, Peel has recently collaborated with the Cities of Toronto and Hamilton and the Regional Municipalities of Durham, Halton, Niagara and York (collectively all forming an area known as The Golden Horseshoe) on a public-awareness campaign called

experimental compostable packages, then pulled them off the shelves of Canadian retail outlets. Frito Lay’s was a bag made mainly from polylactic acid for SunChips and Kraft’s was an “Earth Pack” bottle made of tapioca starch and bamboo for Dentyne, Trident, and Clorets gum. The main reason for these recalls was that, despite the compostability claim advertised on the packages, based solely on laboratory testing, the packages failed to break down in Canadian municipal composting facilities. (Consumers also complained that the chips bag was too noisy.)

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Peel’s waste management plant includes a Material Recovery Facility with the capacity to process 130,000 tonnes of recyclable material collected from curbside Blue Boxes annually.

Recycle More. Two-thirds funded by Stewardship Ontario and the Waste Diversion Ontario Continuous Improvement Fund, this $600,000 campaign delivered the message that additional mixed rigid plastic packaging items can now be recycled to nearly seven million Ontario consumers via print media and radio, internet and billboard advertising launched between September and November 2013.

Because for decades most major Canadian municipalities have operated recycling programs and published their own marketing collateral, including Websites with intricate instructions on how to dispose of various types of waste, the environmental issues associated with packaging have been public concerns for a long time in Canada. But Recycle More and the continued efforts of municipalities and other environmental groups are helping to make today’s consumers even more environmentally knowledgeable than they were in the past. So in an effort to keep up with ever increasing public expectations, environmental sustainability continues to be a bigger driver of innovation than ever before in packaging design.

Consumers have also learned recently that a compostable label or symbol on a product is not necessarily a true indicator of environmental friendliness: Last year in widely publicized incidents, food giants Frito Lay (a division of PepsiCo) and Kraft Canada introduced

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Like municipally untested compostability claims, another potentially misleading message for consumers comes from the recycling symbol with a number inside found on many plastic items that are not actually recyclable. In fact, the number is only used to identify what type of plastic resin the item is made of, and does not necessarily mean the item is recyclable in municipal Blue Box Programs.

Size also matters: Hogan says certain items, such as plastic drinking straws and coffee pods for use with single-serving coffee makers like Keurig, Nespresso, and Tassimo are too small to be sorted because they fall through the MRF’s sorting screens. She reports that Peel’s composting facility is currently testing the compostability claim of a plantbased coffee pod that has recently been

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put on the market. “One of the hardest things about my job is trying to keep up with all the changing material types, since every day manufacturers make something new. Usually we’re the last to learn about these new packaging products,” says Hogan.

Mixed resin challenges

Another factor that thwarts recycling is the combination of many different types of plastic resins in a single package. For instance, because take-out coffee and soft-drink cups typically contain layers of plastic and paper fibre, they cannot be

returns, and less staff time spent cleaning up broken packages. Additionally, flexible packaging weighs less and takes up less room than rigid packaging, resulting in reduced shelf and storage space, as well as lower transportation costs.

Package life cycle assessment

Ironically, environmental arguments are regularly used to persuade packagers to convert to flexible packaging, since it sometimes takes considerably less energy to produce in contrast to some types of rigid packaging. Additionally, flexible packaging’s relative compactness, which

Single-use coffee and tea pods cannot currently be recycled due to their small size.

either composted or recycled and must go in the garbage in Peel. Increasingly, Hogan notes, traditional glass bottles, metal cans and paperboard cartons are being replaced by flexible pouches composed of several layers of different plastic resins which are neither recyclable nor reusable. By contrast, she says traditional cartons and glass jars can usually be recycled and reused indefinitely.

Despite these practical realities, the trend to convert from rigid to flexible packaging continues to grow. One presentation during the February 2013 International Converting Exhibition, ICE USA 2013, estimated that the global flexible packaging market, valued at $71 billion in 2011, will grow by around five percent a year, reaching $90 billion in 2016. It also predicted that North America will be one of the world’s two top regional markets with 25 percent share.

(The other is Central/East Asia with 24 percent share.)

Reasons for this forecasted growth include the myriad of new plastic films and closure mechanisms for flexible packaging that are being introduced into the market. The combination of laminated plastic layers used in most flexible pouches and bags is also popular because it can be custom designed to suit specific products and retailers.

Generally, flexible packaging also allows more of the entire surface area to be printed than rigid packaging, allowing more space for product promotion.

Some flexible packaging also demonstrates superior resistance to damage or defacement during handling, resulting in fewer customer complaints and product

allows for more product per shipment, creates a proportional reduction in carbon dioxide emissions that makes the package environmentally friendly in a different way from the ability to compost or recycle it. Many environmental packaging experts suggest that a complete life cycle assessment, taking into account each aspect of how the package is designed, produced, shipped and disposed of by the consumer, is needed to determine to what extent any package is environmentally sustainable.

Nevertheless, since the end of a package’s life cycle is Hogan’s specialty, she would like to see legislation place more responsibility on packagers to design for both recyclability and compostability.

When Peel staff lead waste-plant tours or in-school presentations to students from packaging courses at colleges and universities or industry associations, they urge their audiences to think more about both outcomes when creating their designs. “Find out if municipalities can compost it. Or find out not only if their MRFs can sort it, but also if an end market for it exists.

“We’ve already invested a huge amount of taxpayers’ money to purchase the infrastructure and equipment to process waste. New packaging needs to work with the existing system, or else the only way we will be able to recycle or compost it is to spend a lot more money to expand the facility again with expensive new equipment.” vicg8.blogspot.ca @vicg8 ca.linkedin.com/in/vicg8

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Eleven European countries replace their national currencies and introduce the Euro as a single, shared currency; Mars Polar Lander is launched to test our neighbouring planet’s southern pole; Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota; and President Bill Clinton begins his impeachment trial in the Senate.

Quebecor Bids for Sun Media

Quebecor Inc.’s Chief Operating Officer Pierre Karl Péladeau moved to purchase Sun Media for $983 million in cash ($21 per share), in addition to taking on $345 million of Sun Media’s debt. Sun Media rival Torstar initially offered $750 million in cash and shares for Sun, followed by a larger bid of $900 million, before Quebecor came in with its ultimately successful bid greater by $2 per share.

The move came two year’s after Péladeau’s father, Pierre, unsuccessfully tried to takeover Sun Media. It immediately made Quebecor the second largest newspaper publisher in Canada behind Southam-Hollinger, which had merged in 1996. “The Sun Media acquisition is the next important step in the development of another Canadian success story,” said PK Péladeau.

At the time, Sun Media owned roughly $80 million worth of printing presses, production equipment and mailroom assets.

Data Business Forms Hosts Frank Abignale Point-One Buys Agfa Galileo

Point-One Graphics, a trade printing operation in Etobicoke, Ontario, purchased a new Agfa Galileo computer-to-plate system from distributor Partners Graphic Support. Celebrating the deal on the Print Ontario show floor are (left to right): Philip Hampson of Partners with Dennis and C.K. Low of Point-One.

Frank Abignale, whose early life as a multi-million-dollar forger was played out by Tom Hanks in the Hollywood movie Catch Me if You Can, was the star speaker at a fraud prevention seminar hosted by Data Business Forms. Before his 21st birthday, Abignale had cashed over $2.5 million worth of fraudulent cheques in 26 countries.

The seminar focused on the importance of protecting printed documents with security features. Abignale noted how advances in technology is making illegal document reproduction easier than ever before, while advocating the use of watermarks, laid lines, void pantographs, haloed numbering, microprint and even new thermochromic and fluorescent inks.

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MK21060STE

Foil Stamping / Die Cutting Combination with Stripping

A Unique Machine for Foil Stamping and Die Cutting in Seam-less Operation

A Unique New Design Concept

Improved production and reduced labour cost, without any reduction in efficiency or quality, a unique machine for foil stamping and die cutting in one seam-less operation

MASTERWORK USA INC.

3700 Rose Lake Drive, Suite B Charlotte, North Carolina 28217 Phone: 704-357-0188 Fax: 704-357-0788 www.mkusa.com

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