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Hatfield, PA (Vocus) February 18, 2010

K?NEX fans can now add new coasters, construction machinery and cool mini-robots to their collections. This year, K?NEX will introduce Construction Crew Series 1 & 2, Amusement Park Series 2 and Micro-Bots to join the hugely popular Collect & Build Series. Building enthusiasts can collect all the sets in each series!

Construction Crew Series

Create vehicles that will make the earth move with the Collect & Build Construction Crew Series?! Construction Crew 1 includes an excavator, front loader, steam roller and backhoe. Each set comes with approximately 120 K’NEX parts that build a working construction vehicle, a K’NEXman, and accessories to add to the fun! By combining all four sets young builders can create their own construction site! Suggested retail price $ 11.99. Available January 2010

Crazy about construction? Construction Crew Series 2 adds even more fun builds including a bulldozer, giant excavator and dump truck to round out the series! Each set comes with over 200 parts to build a heavy-duty vehicle and a K’NEXman driver. Bring the bulldozer and dump truck to life with realistic motorized movement, and listen as the giant excavator makes real construction sounds. Combining the three sets lets kids build a giant house on their construction site! Recommended for builders ages 5+. Suggested retail price $ 24.99. Available August 2010.

Each Collect and Build series, like each individual set, provides a complete building experience which can be enjoyed alone or together by combining the series and the sets.

Amusement Park Series

Introduced in 2008, the K?NEX Amusement Park Series? has quickly become one of the most popular assortments in K?NEX history. Now the series is expanding with the addition of three new rides: the Corkscrew Coaster, Wonder Wheel, and Vertical Viper Coaster. All three are motorized for exciting, realistic performance! Each set comes with over 300 parts and everything kids need to build a working thrill ride. Combine all three for a complete amusement park at home! Recommended for builders ages 7 and up. Suggested retail price: $ 20.99. Available August 2010.

Micro-Bots Series

On the heels of last year?s popular Moto-Bots Series? new Micro-Bots are here. Each mini-robot ? Scooter?, Hopper?, Speedy? and Crawler? ? has over 100 parts and a motor that allows for unique mechanical motion features as each robot’s name suggests! Scooter scoots along, Hopper jumps, Speedy is lightning-quick on wheels, and Crawler creeps along on four legs! Collect all four and combine sets to build 2 larger robots ? then turn them on for head-to-head battling action! Recommended for builders ages 7 and up. Suggested retail price: $ 11.99. Available January 2010.

K?NEX Collect & Build series feature uniquely shaped packaging specific to each theme, and include step-by-step instructions to make building easy. All the Collect and Build series and sets work together and provide even more building fun as kids collect them all They are available at major retailers nationwide.

About K?NEX Brands

Founded in 1992, K?NEX Brands, the world?s most innovative construction toy company, was established to make and sell what has become one of the world?s leading integrated construction systems for children. Winner of over 200 international awards and recognitions, American-made K?NEX encourages youngsters to ?imagine, build and play.? For more information, please visit http://www.knex.com.

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Packaging Machinery Market to Exceed US$ 40 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, California (Vocus) June 15, 2010 –

Packaging is a highly versatile facet of a product, which can be easily attuned to changing consumer preferences. The packaging industry is benefiting to a large extent from increasing consumption spurred by continued growth and higher disposable incomes in developing markets worldwide. Enhanced automation, integration, remote diagnostics, faster changeover, versatility and shorter turnaround times are key determinants of market growth. Emerging market trends include increasing deployment of servos, networking architectures, and robotic applications in packaging machinery. Another upcoming trend is the growing deployment of multi-tasking flexible packaging machinery, attempting to reduce lead-time and to curtail frequent replacement costs.

The US represents the single largest market for Packaging Machinery globally. However, growth in the global market is expected to be fuelled by strong demand from emerging regions such as Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East, while growth in developed markets continues to stagger owing to market maturity. Strongest performances from emerging regions are due to accelerated industrial demand, rapid expansion of food processing and consumer durables sectors, and burgeoning foreign investment in local production facilities. On the other hand, the North American, Japanese and Western European markets are projected to register slow growth.    

The global packaging machinery market is led by Wrapping machinery. Ageing population, shorter innovation cycles of drugs, and tightening legislations of packaging are likely to increase sales of blister packaging machinery. A growing need for tracking packages shipped worldwide and escalating labeling and marking requirements are poised to bolster demand for coding/marking/labeling machinery.

Food processing industry remains the largest end-use market for packaging machinery worldwide. Demand for packaging machinery from beverages industry would primarily be driven by growing consumption of packaged beverages in developing countries and rising use of higher-end, productive equipment in developed countries. Sales of packaging machinery to the pharmaceutical industry would be stimulated by aging population in developed regions that is in turn driving sales of these products, increasing use of disposable medical devices, and growing use of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in developing regions worldwide.

The global market for packaging machinery is huge and highly fragmented. Competition within the industry is generally on the basis of technological sophistication, customer service, and performance parameters. Globally, no individual company claims a significant market share. Key players profiled in the report include Bosch Packaging Technology, Bradman Lake Group, CKD Corp., Coesia SpA, EDL Packaging Engineers Inc., Illinois Tool Works Inc., KHS USA Inc., Klöckner-Werke AG, Krones AG, Lantech, and Tetra Laval among others.

The report titled “Packaging Machinery: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of the global packaging machinery market, current market scenario, key market trends, product introductions, recent corporate initiatives, and focus on major and niche market participants. The study analyzes market data and analytics in terms of value sales for the global as well as regional markets including – the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Latin America. Product segments analyzed include – Aseptic Packaging Machinery, Blister Packaging Machinery, Bottles Cleaning/Drying Machinery, Bottling and Canning Machinery, Cartoning/Case Forming Machinery, Coding/Marking/Labeling Machinery, Flexible Packaging Machinery (Form-Fill-Seal Machinery and Pouching Machinery), Laminating/Delaminating Machinery, Palletizing Machinery, PET Packaging Machinery, Testing/Inspecting/Detecting Machinery, Thermo Forming Machinery, Vacuum Packaging Machinery, Wrapping Machinery [Bundling/Strapping/Lacing Machinery, Individual Wrapping Machinery, Over-Wrapping Machinery, Shrink Wrapping Machinery, Stretch Wrapping Machinery and Twist Wrapping Machinery], Miscellaneous Packaging Machinery, and Accessories and Parts.

For more details about this market research report, please visit –

http://www.strategyr.com/Packaging_Machinery_Market_Report.asp

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