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Article: WVU-Tech presses for change: WVU-Tech publishing center to bring new type of printing training to W.Va.
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- March 5, 2004
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MONTGOMERY - Labels that wrap around items like plastic juice
bottles and glass salsa jars could be the key to improving the Upper
Kanawha Valley's business climate and the training for printing
students at the West Virginia University of Technology.
The school is turning 10,000 square feet of an existing campus
building into a publishing innovation center and adding a $170,000
flexographic printing press to its current printing facility. WVU-
Tech will be the only school in West Virginia with flexographic
equipment training.
"Flexo and narrow web packaging is the fastest part of the
printing industry. We're trying to get West Virginia focused on
that," said Jack ...