BURLINGTON, Ont.: Siemens Canada picked a suitably sunny day to announce that its plant in Burlington, Ont. is now producing SINVERT solar inverters for Ontario’s clean energy market, which the company says should lead to 50 new skilled jobs.

One innovation often deserves another—especially when it comes to healthy new products such as drinkable yogurt beverages produced by Danone Inc.

There’s no business like show business for the technologically-savvy Canadian label manufacturer and converter ASL Print FX of Vaughan, Ont., whose latest work for the Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc wine label—owned by highly-acclaimed Canadian-born Hollywood living legend Dan Aykroyd—earned the company a World Label Award for technical achievement last month, along with priceless publicity of basking in  the spotlight of World Label Award Association ’s awards gala in Palm Beach, Fla. Selected as winning entry in the international competition’s Flexo Multi-Process Color Process category, the Dan Aykroyd label (see picture) was printed stochastically to enhance print quality using UV (ultraviolet) flexo inks, according to ASL president Charlie MacLean, incorporating advanced finishing techniques and processes such as holographic cold foil, matte/gloss varnish, gold hot-stamping, and raised-varnish silkscreening

MISUMI USA is presenting its Technical Seminars at the upcoming 2011 Automation Technology Expo Canada at the Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, ON.

Razor-thin profit margins are nothing new in the notoriously competitive label industry, but some companies manage to deal with them better than others by consistently offering excellent pricing, high-quality labels and the latest, cutting-edge printing technologies. Specifically, companies like Ste-Julie, Que.-based Imprimerie Saint-Julie Inc. —a successful, family-operated label supplier employing 85 people at two label converting facilities specializing in flexographic and digital printing processes.

A combination machine from XYZ Machine Tools has enabled subcontractor Wicks Engineering to improve productivity at its facility in Leeds. Wicks specialises in prototype work as well as repair and maintenance projects that can demand a significant amount of reverse engineering. Wicks Engineering specialises in prototype and repair and maintenance The company’s work has included film props for movies including ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code’

Quality and taste are never out of fashion when it comes to packaged food products, but it is important to keep your packaging capabilities and know-how up to date to keep your customers and consumers happy and loyal, as folks at Cibona Foods Inc. know very well

GRIMSBY, Ont —RMT Robotics has signed an agreement to supply a multi-gantry cured tire palletizing and shipping buffer system to Hanwha TechM Inc., one of South Korea’s largest industrial engineering companies. The gantry system is expected to be installed in a Korean tire manufacturing facility in late 2011.

GRIMSBY, Ont —RMT Robotics has signed an agreement to supply a multi-gantry cured tire palletizing and shipping buffer system to Hanwha TechM Inc., one of South Korea’s largest industrial engineering companies. The gantry system is expected to be installed in a Korean tire manufacturing facility in late 2011. The RMT cured tire system directs tires toward a bank of gantry robots, capable of sorting hundreds of concurrent codes and storing thousands of tires at once

Trying to become a leader in the vast North American market for product labels can be a sticky business at times, but that’s just how the Toronto-based Metro Label Group Inc.