28 Sept 2011
AVERY DENNISON PLACES THINSTREAM™ TECHNOLOGY WITH LEADING CONVERTERS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
LEIDEN, the Netherlands — 28 September 2011 — Avery Dennison and Gallus announce that Eurostampa Industria Grafica s.p.a. in Bene Vagienna, Italy, will be the first recipient of a Gallus Cold Die Unit with Avery Dennison ThinStream™ technology. Eurostampa is a family-run business focusing on wine and spirits, ready to drink containers, chocolate, food, beer, cosmetics, mineral waters, tubes and cartons.
In North America, Brook & Whittle Ltd., of North Branford, Connecticut also has acquired an Avery Dennison ThinStream cold die unit, developed by custom equipment builder, Drilling Technical Services. Brook & Whittle produces labels for a variety of end use industries including the beverage, personal care, food and household sectors.
Avery Dennison ThinStream, a revolutionary new die-cutting technology developed by pressure-sensitive label material manufacturer Avery Dennison, allows the die-cutting of labels with a liner as thin as 12 microns, half of the current minimum in the market. ThinStream technology also eliminates die strikes, one of the industry’s top quality concerns. The patented technology for ThinStream was licensed in March to the Gallus Group, which has created the Gallus Cold Die Unit to accomplish this major advance in die-cutting technology.
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About Avery Dennison
Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) helps make brands more inspiring and the world more intelligent. For more than 75 years the company has been a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology and materials, retail branding and information solutions, and organization and identification products for offices and consumers. A FORTUNE 500 company with sales of $6.5 billion in 2010, Avery Dennison is based in Pasadena, California and has employees in over 60 countries. For more information, visit www.averydennison.com.
About Gallus Group
The Gallus Group is a world market leader in the development, production and marketing of narrow-web reel-fed presses for label printers. The Group's folding carton business develops and markets narrow and wide-web reel-fed presses and die-cutters for the cost-effective inline production of folding cartons and cardboard products. Besides its portfolio of presses, the Group also provides consumables and a global, decentralized service and spare parts network. Gallus and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the global market leader in solutions for the print and media industry, have been working in partnership since 1999. The Gallus Group has a workforce of 565. This includes 260 employees in Switzerland, where the Group has its headquarters in St. Gallen. For more information, visit www.gallus-group.com.
About Drilling Technical Services
Drilling Technical Services, Inc is an engineering and services company specializing in the mechanical, electrical, and process engineering of mid-width and narrow web printing, drying, converting, RFID and digital printing equipment. DTS has a particular emphasis on web transportation, die-cutting and laminating solutions, as well as process automation and integrations. Located in Milford, OH, DTS is strategically located just outside Cincinnati and has been in business since 1998.