14 | Regulars / NewsNewsIntegration Technology launches US subsidiaryUV LED specialist Integration Technology has launched its United States-based sister company, Integration Technology America (ITA). The American arm forms a crucial component of the organization’s wider growth strategy as it moves to meet demand for high-quality, high-performance UV technology in the US market. (L-R): Steffen Reimund, Triton; Fernando Gabel All4Labels; Jaison Schlickmann, Flexoprint; ITA will operate from Illinois and is a Romeo Kreinberg, Triton; Laércio Stange Warmeling, Flexoprint; Adrian Tippenhauer, All4Labelswholly owned subsidiary of Integration Technology based in the UK.Flexoprint joins All4Labels Group All4Labels Global Packaging Group has acquired Brazilian converter Flexoprint Labels. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. LemuGroup America The Stange Warmeling and Schlickmann families have signed an agreement to establishedbecome co-shareholders in the All4Labels Global Packaging Group, making Flexoprint Labels a 100 percent subsidiary of the group. Flexoprint Labels is a packaging provider LemuGroup, a paper converting machine with a core focus on labels and sleeves. It has manufacturing sites in Brazil and manufacturer, is continuing to establish Paraguay. The owners of Flexoprint will continue to manage their business and will a strong presence in the United States additionally take on additional responsibilities for the group in the region together and Canada with the creation of with Fernando Gabel, All4Labels president for Latin America, and his team. LemuGroup America. Gabel said: ‘We are extremely pleased and proud to welcome the entire Flexoprint According to the company, the United team as new partners and member of the All4Labels family and together we will be States and Canadian markets are growing able to offer our customers a much more complementary product and end market in importance for LemuGroup, and the goal portfolio. We are looking forward to continuing the All4Labels success story together is to come closer to its customers – both and welcoming the new colleagues with open arms.’ on the sales and technical after-sales service sides. WLE rebrands to boon-techInfinity Foils opens facility Polish-Swedish Worldwide Label Equipment (WLE), a manufacturer and supplier of label fnishing equipment, has changed its name to boon-tech. The company will in Mexicofocus on performance-enhancing auxiliary equipment for the label industry.Infnity Foils has opened a new facility in The newly renamed company, formerly WLE, was initially founded by the Swedish Querétaro, Mexico. It is the third converting Wasberger Group. It serves customers worldwide and shares modern production location and the eighth distribution center facilities, service, and support infrastructure with parent company Grafotronic in since the company was founded in 2005.Warsaw, Poland.The company offers out-of-the-box machines designed to assist and Located in the central Mexican city of enhance all the processes surrounding label printing and fnishing.Querétaro, it is close to Mexico City and ‘boon-tech wants to improve effciency by supplying cost-effective plug and play other large printing hubs. The new branch solutions and has a strong intention of becoming the easiest auxiliary equipment will primarily service the Mexico and Central supplier to work with,’ said Morten Toksværd, business development director. ‘It’s America markets.a name change but also a new strategy, which is to make it as easy as possible for customers to buy and install these products. Compared to Grafotronic, boon-tech is more of a volume business – fast delivery, easy-to-use equipment. We want to be Fix-a-Form names the best at that, so the answer is to have a dedicated organization focused on that type of equipment.’ Mexico distributor boon-tech has launched a new slitter rewinder, Exigo, and Rebel, a compact digital Fix-a-Form International has appointed Jetrix fnishing machine. The company offers slitter rewinders, fan-folding equipment, fully Soluciones Gráfcas as its new dealer in and semi-automatic core cutters, spare parts and consumables. Mexico to expand its machinery sales in the Latin American region. Established in 2008 and based in Mexico Meech expands UK production facilities City, Jetrix supplies its products to the label, Meech International, a manufacturer of static control, web cleaning and compressed packaging and related industries. air technology, has expanded its UK facilities in Oxfordshire, with a new 29,000 The company is contracted to supply sqft production facility at Tungsten Park – just meters from the main building. The and support the full range of Fix-a-Form new unit houses production, purchasing, order processing and customer service machinery for label makers for multi-page departments with approximately 40 staff. The original building retains all other brochures and booklet labels. aspects of the business. labelsandlabeling.com