After a long journey at sea King Kong, known in the industry as the Windmoeller & Hoelscher 52″ MIRAFLEX AM 10 Colour Flexographic Printing Press, has come out of her shipping crate. As the riggers set her up, we can see she is going to be real comfortable in her new home at Associated Labels and Packaging, Kanada (as the Germans say).

Oh no! It's started! Our press baby has been home for two days and we're already taking "artsy" photos of her fingers and toes (Translation: photos of gears and printing decks).

Google: Sexy Kale. It’s where our minds went after writing this article on Environmentally Friendly Packaging and Compostable Stand Up Pouches. Don't search it - unless you want to fall down an internet image hole from days long forgotten.

If flexible pouch packaging could talk, we know that the stand up pouch would be the first to say, “Look at me! I’m awesome!”

Associated Labels made a trip to Germany to check out its 52″ MIRAFLEX AM named King Kong. King Kong is now at sea, Canada bound aboard the MSC LEIGH Vessel (above) and the "Night Before Christmas" suspense is killing us!

We're back from Germany, flipping through our phones filled with pics of beer, sausage, sauerkraut and a whole lot of machines. We barely survived a white knuckled rip down the autobahn en route to the Windmoeller & Hoelscher plant in Lengerich to meet our brand new 52″ MIRAFLEX AM press baby.

We're off to Germany to visit our brand new baby... and this one is advanced.

As a company we are constantly considering the environmental impact of packaging. We believe it's our job to innovate the future of label printing, stand-up pouches, digital label printing and flexible packaging.