New Association for IML, IMD.

Last month saw the official start-up of the In-Mold Decorating Association (IMDA), an association of molders, printers, materials suppliers, and equipment manufacturers involved in in-mold labeling and decorating (IML and IMD) for any plastics process. IMDA is dedicated to education, development, and growth of IMD/IML technologies and markets.

Executive director Ronald B. Schultz says the fledgling organization is launching a membership drive. It currently has close to a dozen members. A website is in development, and members will publicize the group at NPE 2006 in Chicago this June.

Schultz is founder and president of RBS Technologies in Scottsdale, Ariz., a consulting firm active in flexible packaging and IML. He created the directory-type website, SourceIML.com, which provides free listings of companies involved in IML and IMD. Tel: [phone] * E-mail: [e-mail]