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As North America’s first dedicated sheet feeding company, Corrugated Synergies International, LLC (CSI) is accustomed to setting new industry trends; the company did just that at the recent Electronics For Imaging, Inc. (Nasdaq:EFII) Connect users’ conference when it became the first company to purchase the full ecosystem of EFI™ technologies for corrugated packaging, featuring EFI Corrugated Packaging Suite manufacturing execution system (MES) software for business ERP and production management integrated with an EFI Fiery® digital front end (DFE) and the breakthrough Nozomi C18000 ultra-high-speed single-pass LED inkjet press.

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As competition for consumer attention and loyalty intensifies, brands are increasingly turning to packaging to achieve differentiation on retail shelves and enhance engagement. To deliver an interactive experience to consumers before, during and after consumption, Coca-Cola has rolled out cans of Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta and Sprite in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia featuring Reveal temperature sensitive inks.

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Durst, manufacturer of advanced digital production technologies, together with OMET, manufacturer of printing and converting machines, have strengthened their collaboration with the introduction of the new OMET XJet. Powered by Durst, the integrated hybrid solution for a wide range of high-performance labels and packaging printing guarantees flexibility and cost savings.

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The inventor of the revolutionary THQ printing technology took away the Prix de l’Innovation at the competition for the best work in flexographic printing. The jury also gave awards (FlexoStars) to four Bobst Group customers for the quality of their work in the corrugated cardboard category.

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Label Express, the UK label company based in Croydon, took delivery of their new BOBST M4 inline UV flexo press early in 2017 and reports excellent performance since production started. With speed of turnaround being the main focus of the business, it has found the M4 to be the perfect machine to deliver impressively fast performance whilst producing the premium print quality the company is renowned for.

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Sun Chemical will increase prices on all offset inks and coatings for its customers across all regions, effective 1 March 2018.

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Heidelberg supplies complete package comprising presses, software, services, and consumables under subscription agreement

Industry 4.0 solution ensures excellent availability and productivity across entire system
WEIG can achieve growth targets based on state-of-the-art technology

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Simplifying the route to smart-label packaging is the focus of a new Intelligent Labelling Solutions initiative from Avery Dennison. The Intelligent Labelling portfolio supports label converters as they explore new and sometimes unfamiliar opportunities in labelling and packaging. With a very broad range of options, the portfolio helps to maximise not only well understood capabilities, for example individually serialized digital print, but also evolving state-of-the-art technologies such as RFID.

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All export-import activities will be done via Abu Dhabi Ports’ flagship Khalifa Port.

Gulf Printing and Packaging, a subsidiary of Al Khat Packaging Co., one of the largest producers of printing and packaging materials in the GCC, has inaugurated its new UAE base in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD).

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Increasing demand for packaging

Six-colour Rapida 106 with coater and logistics installed
Replacement for three older sheetfed offset presses
Measurable factors such as population growth, economic prosperity and consumer behaviour form the generally accepted basis for predictions regarding the future demand for packaging. And the indicators are positive all over the world. In the Middle East, and especially in Saudi Arabia, an above-average increase in demand is expected. Saudi Arabia is today already importing packaging from the neighbouring countries.

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