Brook and Whittle has announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire Innovative Labeling Solutions, Inc. (ILS) and Wizard Labels LLC in partnership with founders, Jay Dollries, Steve Wolf and Steve Smith. Brook & Whittle is majority-owned by private equity firm Snow Phipps Group, LLC. The closing of the acquisitions is expected to occur within 30 days.

It’s important to invest in trusted technology, especially when at the forefront of the next big innovation. Once predominately produced via flexography, flexible packaging benefits from increased advancements in digital technology. Brand owners and their agencies demand shorter runs and increased versioning at faster times to market—all requirements met by digital printing. Print providers who identify the advantages of digital printing and are able to implement these capabilities in house are poised to offer customers exactly what they want.

Innovative Labeling Solutions has installed an HP Indigo 8000, making it the first North American converter with the full HP Indigo label platform.

Industry Q&A: Digital Printing - Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Jay Dollries, CEO of Innovative Labeling Solutions (ILS), a company that has a total of six digital presses ranging from narrow web to wide web at its Hamilton, Ohio, facility. Dollries took some time to talk about what digital printing has done for his printing company.

Ohio based Innovative Labeling Solutions and HP Indigo are out to demonstrate that digital printing can become as widely used for flexible packaging as it is for labels.