SUPPLIER news

Kathryn Marx, vice president of marketing and strategic planning at Flint Ink, has been elected chair of NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. Announced at NPES' recent annual conference, she is the 25th chief executive officer of NPES and the first woman elected to the post in the association's 70-year history. In other association news, Gerald Nathe, president and CEO of Baldwin Technology, and Bernal Inc. received the 2003 Harold W. Gegenheimer Awards for Industry Service.