Nashua (NSHA) 8-K Nashua Corporation Announces Favorable Ruling In Cerion Litigation

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 22, 2005

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NASHUA CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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Massachusetts
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation) 1-05492
(Commission File Number) 02-0170100
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)

11 Trafalgar Square, Suite 201
Nashua, New Hampshire 03063
(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

(603) 880-2323
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 8.01 Other Events

On August 22, 2005, Nashua Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation (“Nashua”) issued a press release announcing the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois issued an order in the complaint filed by Phillippe Olczyk, and others against Cerion Technologies, Inc., Nashua, and others granting the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing the plaintiffs’ complaint. The suit was initially filed in 1996 against Cerion Technologies, Inc., Nashua and other defendants. The original complaint alleged that Cerion Technologies, Inc. had issued materially false and misleading statements and omitted the disclosure of certain material facts in connection with its initial public offering. Cerion Technologies, Inc. ceased operations in November 1998.

A copy of the press release is attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K at Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(c) Exhibits

See Exhibit Index attached hereto.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	NASHUA CORPORATION
Date: August 22, 2005	By /s/ John L. Patenaude
		John L. Patenaude
		Vice President - Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press release issued by the Company on August 22, 2005

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