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COMPANY NEWS

Polykar Adds Third W&H Multi- Fortis Solutions opens new
layer Co-extrusion Line manufacturing facility in

California
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industrial grade liners, today announced the installation of Uprovider Fortis Solutions Group has expanded its
network by opening a new manufacturing facility in
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Napa, California. The company will use the facility
to produce pressure sensitive labels for the wine,
craft beer and spirits industries. According to Fortis
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line with the company’s aim to drive growth through
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in the wine and spirits industries have repeatedly
told us there is a need for a local, agile, high-quality,
customer-focused printer. “Rather than acquire an
existing business, we were able to bring together a
very strong team with extensive experience and build
a facility from the ground up around our customer-
centric values. “In keeping with our national yet local
began production this week.The Optimex lends itself to a approach, we found a great location in Napa from which
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high outputs while ensuring maximum quality and faster offer an additional market segment to our national
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the consistent and increasing demand from customers president Brendan Kinziethe and director James Stone
for high quality and complex structures in the North will lead the operations in the facility with help of their
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reach 22 million pounds and will result in quicker product
turnaround.Commenting at the machine start up, Amir
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see our third Optimex line installed, not only for the much-
needed increase in production, but also for the addition
of half a dozen new technical positions in our co-extrusion
department which will help us ramp up our share of the
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was installed in 2014, and was the 100th such line sold
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Polykar that the Optimex would be a consistent and reliable
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turn label production solutions to designers and brand
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owners. Headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia,
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value on the quality of machinery as we do,” said Andrew printing, extended booklet printing, folding cartons,
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