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Award for Koenig & Bauer's artificial intelligence: For the project "Kyana - predictive maintenance with a digital twin" the subsidiary Coding received the Steinbeis Foundation's transfer prize - the Löhn Prize - on 27 September 2019. The award has been presented since 2004 for outstanding projects and achievements in entrepreneurial knowledge and technology transfer.

For everyone who visited Edale’s stand at Labelexpo, apart from the company’s distinctive orange livery, the first thing you will have noticed was there was no running press. James Boughton Edale’s Managing Director explains what seems quite a controversial decision.

TOP Packaging, the joint venture owned by Thimm Group and located in Tychy in southern Poland, has successfully taken over the local supplier of corrugated cardboard packaging, United Packaging SA, in Skarbimierz near Wroclaw. The Polish cartel office has examined the acquisition of the works with more than 100 employees and approved it, taking effect as of 01.10.2019. The Thimm Group, based in Northeim in the German state of Lower Saxony, is thus also continuing its growth course in Poland.

ESMA pavilion at the world’s premier fair for plastics and rubber industry, the K show (16-23 October 2019 in Düsseldorf), features four member companies, key suppliers for specialist printing applications such as packaging and automotive. Meet them in hall 4, booth C63.

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Avery Dennison, Esko, and GMG were among the category winners honored at this year’s prestigious Label Industry Global Awards, which took place on 24 September at Brussels Expo, Belgium, the first night of Labelexpo Europe 2019.

The organizer of Labelexpo Asia 2019 is hosting a series of morning roadshows across China during October in conjunction with key industry partner, the Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Association of China (PEIAC). Held in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai, the three events are an opportunity for printers and media to gain an exclusive insight into what the 2019 edition of Labelexpo Asia has in store.

From 23 to 25 September, the Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association will be taking centre stage at Pack Expo, the most important event for the industry in North America.

The organizer of the Labelexpo Global Series of trade shows for the label and package printing industry has announced a major new show serving the Latin American market. Labelexpo Mexico will take place over 23-25 June 2021 at World Trade Center Mexico City.

International beauty packaging manufacturer and provider Quadpack Industries has acquired the commercial rights to the patented bi-injection blow moulding (BIBM) process of German technology company Inotech. The terms of the agreement include the joint research and development of new beauty packaging solutions using the process. Financial figures were not disclosed.