Fulfillment/Warehousing

RR Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD), Chicago, has entered into an agreement with Pearson, a leading company in education, business and consumer publishing. RRD will provide complete supply-chain management of 100 percent of Pearson’s printed and other learning materials...

Dover, New Hampshire-based Relyco announced the opening of a Dallas area sales office and the hiring of Shannon Greer as Southwest regional sales manager to run the new office. The company also announced its plan for a regional distribution warehouse in Texas to better serve its customers in the Western United States.

At first glance, the print industry and the music industry don't have much in common. One primarily deals in assorted paper products. The other deals in Justin Bieber. Draw up a Venn diagram for that, and it would be two freestanding circles separated by three page-lengths of empty space.

Carol Stream, Illinois-based CE Printed Products finalized plans to open a new production facility in Atlanta.

Midlothian, Texas-based Ennis is relocating its Carol Stream, Ill. facility to its larger facility in Princeton, Ill.

Chicago-based GPA, Specialty Substrate Solutions, a market leader in providing substrate solutions for offset and digital presses, announced the expansion of its services by adding three new warehouses.

Booklet Binding and Team Services announced the opening of its new production center in Carol Stream, Ill. The facility is one of the industry's few integrated production centers combining finishing, mailing and packaging services under one roof. With an additional 50 percent capacity, it is also among the largest marketing production, data, distribution and packaging centers in the country offering printers, marketing services agencies and their clients an unprecedented combination of capacity, speed, redundancy and security.

As digital book production continues to evolve, so does the need for equipment with greater productivity and flexibility. Muller Martini, Hauppauge, N.Y., and Océ, with North American headquarters in Trumbull, Conn., teamed up at this year’s On Demand Conference & Exposition, held from April 17 to 19 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, to demonstrate the benefits of inline digital book manufacturing. Muller Martini featured the next generation of its SigmaLine OnDemand technology, and Océ highlighted its powerful new VarioStream continuous feed printing system. The two companies demonstrated a complete inline book printing and finishing system configured to optimize versatility in two distinct

In response to increased demand for jumbo-sized rolls, fueled by on-demand and high-volume printing, Paris Business Products, Burlington, N.J., invested in additional machinery, including a turret-re-winder. The machinery has been incorporated into Paris’ Westampton, N.J. manufacturing plant and is currently being used for production. Paris anticipates strong growth of popular 50" diameter rolls with a wide variety of forms sizes and optional perforations and punches. The additional capacity also allows Paris to offer Express Rolls, popular sized blank rolls for rapid delivery. Another significant benefit that Paris offers is the ability to custom print rolls. With up to four colors, Paris will custom print

AFE Industries, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., announced the installation of a new 10-color Aquaflex DBX Press in its US1 facility in Santa Fe Springs. The 10" wide web press is equipped with 10 flexo print stations, a UV silk-screen print unit, a variable imaging ink-jet print station, a hot-stamping unit, front/back laminating units, front/back UV-curing units and three rotary die-cutting units. This press adds to the facility’s extensive capacity for plastic and paper phone cards, while expanding the process-color tag and label printing capabilities, including the ability to print four colors on the front and back. In addition, the press has the flexibility