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Arctic Blue Gin package wins AIMCAL Product of the Year award

US-based Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) presented its 2020 Product of the Year award to Hazen Paper Company for an Arctic Blue Gin package featuring images of flaming Northern Lights. Metsä Board, the leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group, designed the package structure, the original graphics and the embossing. The impressive package uses the lightweight and strong MetsäBoard Pro FBB Bright folding boxboard 350 g/m2.

Now also labelling of variable carton heights

- The carrierless HERMA InNo-Liner system can now also label variably fed, i.e. differently sized shipping cartons in any order.
- With the sensor-controlled, variable labelling height HERMA is starting series production of the system.
- A free HERMA app makes the system with Augmented Reality available immediately to anyone interested in experiencing it on smartphone and tablet.

O.D.D. chooses Screen's L350UV+ LM for greater flexibility and efficiency in high quality printing

Full service printer uses Screen's latest label printing system for the heart of its efforts to further strengthen its position in the expanding label printing market.

Sustainability in packaging printing

The VARIOMAN machines and environmental protection go together like ink on paper.
Sustainability is the future. Only a few years ago far too few printing companies were committed to environmental protection. Now manroland Goss is conquering the future of the printing industry with the convincing concept of the VARIOMAN.

UPM Raflatac’s new improved topcoat for PP and PE films makes printers’ life easier

UPM Raflatac is introducing a significantly improved universal topcoat for all its main PE and PP film products in the European market. The new topcoat will allow a greater range of printing methods to be used on standard films, reducing inventory requirements and making printers’ production processes more efficient.

Innovative Polish Company Moves Business Core to Corrugated Digital Printing with EFI Nozomi C18000

Digit Pack, a relatively new company in the corrugated sector in Poland, has invested in the EFI™ Nozomi C18000 six-colour, single-pass LED inkjet printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. The new printer will allow Digit Pack to expand its business in corrugated digital printing, partaking in the exciting, growing opportunities of the sector's digitisation.

Mark Andy Installs First Evolution Series in Europe

Colorado Etiquettes, the Rouen-based family business that has been supplying the French label industry since 1973, has installed the first Mark Andy Evolution flexo press in Europe. At a ceremony to commemorate the occasion, Tom Cavalco, Executive Vice President of Sales for the American manufacturer said: “I am delighted to see that our latest flexo technology is applicable to and affordable by the smaller label converters who are looking to improve their productivity and extend their market opportunities. I congratulate Colorado on being the first label converter in France to benefit from what the Evolution has to offer.”

Let’s experience the future

New consumers’ values, desires and choices are the main inspiration for Quadpack 2024 themes

Read more: Let’s experience the future

IGEPA Packaging enters into innovation cooperation with Pacproject

At the beginning of this month, the IGEPA group is cooperating in the field of packaging with the internationally operating packaging agency Pacproject from Hamburg. The cooperation includes the mutual transfer of knowledge in the areas of packaging development, process optimization as well as in the strategic environment in order to offer a faster reaction time and the appropriate solutions for customers of both companies.

Rise in Alcohol Prices Creates Financial Impact for Packaging Companies

For flexographic companies using solvent-based platemaking processes, the sharp rise in alcohol prices we are seeing in several EU countries increases the cost of flexographic plates by as much as 3 EUR per square meter.

Close the loop with UPM Raflatac Americas’s new Label to Label recycled paper label materials

UPM Raflatac is proud to introduce the label industry’s first paper face material constructed from recycled label materials. Now available in the Americas market, new Label to Label products can help any sustainability-minded converter or brand embrace the circular economy without sacrificing performance.