Europe: Successful brand identity factors, label industry trends shared at FINAT Congress
The label industry is no longer a separate and definable niche in the broader field of packaging print.
It has a new and extended profile...
Europe: Xeikon introduces first imager made in-house
Xeikon’s ThermoFlexX 80 is the first in-house designed and manufactured model in its imager range since the company acquired FlexoLaser in 2012.
Available from August,...
Europe: RPC Kutenholz custom designs functional, modern bottle for dessert sauce company
Schwartauer’s 2kg Dessert Sauces has donned a bottle by from RPC Kutenholz, which is designed to bring a modernity and convenience to consumers.
It has...
Europe: Essentra Packaging offers tape for resealable snack packs
Essentra Packaging’s Re:Close Tape is adding user-friendly reclosability to millions of packs of bagged snacks on-shelf in Europe, a new development which facilitates portion...
Europe: Region to recycle plastics as China rejects more waste shipments, says analyst
China no longer wants to be the world’s dumping ground for plastic waste, according to research from information provider IHS.
As a result, recyclers in...
Europe: Association shares metal packaging benefits on website
Empac, European Metal Packaging, the association consisting of European producers of rigid metal packaging and their supply chain partners has launched a website to help...
Europe: Schumacher Packaging opens corrugated packaging plant in Germany
Schumacher Packaging began operations at its new, corrugated packaging plant in Greven on June 30, 2014.
The site was completed in less than one year...
Americas: Green packaging company Cascades sells three units to Rolland Enterprises
Cascades Inc., a company in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, says it has reached an agreement with Rolland...
Americas: Xitron introduces prepress workflow, tool kit for flexographic and packaging applications at ExpoPrint...
Xitron, a developer of raster image processor (RIP) and workflow products for the printing industry, introduces Navigator F/P, a prepress workflow and tool kit...
Asia Pacific: Singapore-funded research finds squid sucker ring teeth can be used to make...
Squid tentacles are loaded with hundreds of suction cups, or suckers, and each sucker has a ring of razor-sharp “teeth” that help these predators latch...