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14 | L&L<br />
HOT OFF THE PRESS<br />
A ROUND-UP OF THE LATEST<br />
GLOBAL LABEL STORIES<br />
FLEXCON MOURNS FOUNDER<br />
MYLES J. MCDONOUGH<br />
Flexcon has announced the passing of its<br />
founder and chairman of the board, Myles J.<br />
McDonough, on March 30.<br />
A resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, and<br />
The Carnegie Abbey Club, Portsmouth, Rhode<br />
Island, McDonough was an innovator and<br />
leader in the adhesives and coatings industry,<br />
and an honored philanthropist who was a<br />
passionate supporter of a number of charities.<br />
He founded Flexcon Company in 1956<br />
at the age of 26 as a flexible converter of<br />
plastic films. He grew the company from<br />
a two-person garage operation in Spencer,<br />
Massachusetts, to a leading manufacturer of<br />
pressure sensitive film products with 1,500<br />
employees worldwide.<br />
McDonough built his first equipment using<br />
parts from dismantled washing machines and<br />
created a multi-million dollar company in one<br />
lifetime without venture capital or bank loans.<br />
With characteristic humility, he once summed<br />
up his management style as, ‘I hire people<br />
smarter than myself and let them excel’.<br />
‘My father was a dedicated, honest and<br />
hard-working leader who was a role-model to<br />
me and everyone that worked with him,’ said<br />
Neil McDonough, president and CEO, Flexcon.<br />
‘His loyalty to customers and commitment to<br />
constant innovation remain the cornerstones of<br />
the company today.'<br />
NEWPAGE Corporation's new paper-based<br />
substrate for printing RFID labels<br />
NEWPAGE AWARDED PATENT<br />
FOR POINTTRAC TT RFID<br />
NEW paper-based substrate makes RFID ‘more affordable’<br />
NewPage Corporation has been awarded<br />
US (8,096,479) and Canadian (CA<br />
2678556) patents for its new paper-based<br />
substrate for printed RFID labels.<br />
PointTrac TT enables RFID label<br />
manufacturers to combine thermal<br />
transfer printed variable analog<br />
information with advanced RFID chip<br />
technology. This technology facilitates<br />
low-cost production of printed paper RFID<br />
labels when compared with traditional<br />
multi-layer plastic film substrates.<br />
‘The NewPage PointTrac TT technology<br />
will allow RFID chips to become more<br />
widely used in shipping, tracking and<br />
transactions by making conversion to this<br />
technology more affordable,’ said Jim<br />
Sheibley, director of specialty business<br />
and product development.<br />
RFID uses a wireless non-contact<br />
radio system for the transfer of data for<br />
automatic identification and tracking.<br />
PointTrac TT has special dual functionality<br />
built in so that printed barcodes on the<br />
label face can be read with a line of sight<br />
optical device or by using an out of sight<br />
electronic device.<br />
PointTrac TT is available with third-party<br />
chain-of-custody certifications, providing<br />
customers with high performance RFID<br />
products, while maintaining a level of both<br />
sustainable and renewable attributes.
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