Orders for its products in the first six months of the year approached €300m due to its strengths in packaging printing. A €10m pre-tax profit generated in Q2 reduced its pre-tax loss from €18.8m at the end of March to ...
Making RFID tags affordable is one of the key drivers in the rapid development of Printed Electronics (PE). With traditional RFID tags being considered expensive, fragile and open to questions about security and performance, the concept ...
Tags: Printed Electronics, RFID tags, Packaging, Printing
Paperboard and rigid packaging company ASG (AGI-Shorewood Group) has signed on as an HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press launch customer and is set to install an HP Indigo 5500 Digital Press later in 2013. Both the presses will be installed at ...
Tags: ASG, HP, Digital Packaging Press
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery (MHI-PPM) and Ryobi have entered into a shareholder agreement to set up a joint venture (JV) and integrate sheetfed press businesses. Both the Japan-based companies, MHI-PPM and ...
Tags: Mitsubishi, Ryobi, Sheetfed Press
Is the New Zealand equity market a bubble? With global short-term interest rates at close to zero and a number of central banks pumping liquidity into markets as fast as their printing presses allow, there are clear signs that asset bubbles ...
Tags: Paul Glass, Construction
Xeikon has developed a new fuser drum Alpine, which has a flexible outer layer to help to produce consistent print on uneven as well as textured media, specifically on recycled board stocks. According to the Netherlands-based company, the ...
Tags: Xeikon, Fuser Drum
Centuries ago, our world functioned solely on manual labor. Our tools were extensions of ourselves, and required physical competence and an element of strength to use. With modern technology, we use machinery more often than manual labor ...
Tags: Modern Machinery, Processing Machinery, Manufacturing Machinery
Global supplier of packaging equipment and services Bobst is all set to present its range of equipment for converters in the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible materials printing and converting industries, at Converflex ...
Tags: exhibit packaging, packaging, printing
Germany-based company Rotocontrol is set to introduce its new systems at Propak Africa, taking place from 12 to15 March 2013 in Nasrec, Johannesburg. Rotocon, the local agent for the company in South Africa, will demonstrate RSC 340mm web ...
Tags: flexible packaging, carton board, packaging
Germany-based Rotocontrol has installed an RSC slitter rewinder in Panprint, a converter located in New Zealand. Rotocontrol general manager John Lowther said the company and its local New Zealand agent, Converting Technology, were ...
Canada-based Color Ad Packaging has placed an order with Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H) and its subsidiary, Garant Machinenhandel, for a HELIOSTAR gravure press, a MIRAFLEX flexographic press and three TRIUMPH bag machines. The new ...
Netherlands-based AB Graphic has named Nilpeter as its distributor for the Middle East. AB Graphic International spokesperson Matthew Burton said the company's new partner in the Middle East will provide ongoing technical support for its ...
Tags: AB Graphic, Nilpeter, distributor
US-based PAC Worldwide has created the new Pouchjacket line,in response to the needs of its customers for a protective packaging solution for retail/food products. According to the company,the custom laminated flexible pouches are made ...
Tags: PAC Worldwide, Pouchjacket line, packaging, laminated flexible pouches
US-based multi-color packaging converter Hammer Packaging has broken ground on a 13,000ft2 expansion at its corporate headquarters located in West Henrietta, New York. The addition, expected to complete in November 2012, will be ...
The biennial Harrogate event, known previously as Northprint, is going in for a revamp for its next edition on 14-16 May 2013, in a bid to emphasize the increasing importance of the packaging market in the print sector. Packaging-specific ...
Tags: Northprint, packaging market, print sector