Valmet will supply a Valmet Brown Stock quality analyzer (Valmet Kappa Q1) for CMPC Celulosa in Santa Fe, Chile for its fiber line 1 producing ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free) bleached eucalyptus pulp. To be installed in the blow line of the ...
Belgium-based Esko said it will exhibit a range of new and powerful flexo platemaking solutions for brand owners and label converters at this month’s Labelexpo 2017 in Brussels. The company says that its technologies come with clear ...
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Mark Andy Digital One, a CMYK dry-toner device with inline decorating and converting, has received the BS5609 certification on Avery Dennison substrate. BS5609 is a certification that guarantees label durability in harsh marine and ...
UK-based press manufacturer Dantex will be showcasing its new PicoJet Digital UV inkjet press at the upcoming Labelexpo Europe to be held this September at Brussels, Belgium. The new inkjet press has a width of 350mm and a 75m/min (250 ...
Impossible Foods says that it has passed important milestones for food safety, including a unanimous expert-panel affirmation of the safety of a key ingredient used in its products. A panel of food safety and allergy experts at three ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency said investigations into the Fipronil incident in Europe continue and it has now established that more eggs from affected farms than previously identified came to the UK. It is very unlikely that these eggs ...
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Inci-Flex, a flexo and gravure prepress business based in Fisciano (Salerno province), Italy, has presented an automated flexo platemaking process, which the company says will assure quality, standardization and productivity. The Italian ...
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Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc (PIRT) of Monmouth Junction, NJ, USA - which designs and manufactures both shortwave-infrared cameras and one- and two-dimensional imaging arrays based on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) - has announced ...
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Esko's XPS Crystal flexo plate exposure unit has received the respected Printing Industries of America (PIA) InterTech Technology Award. Since 1978, the InterTech Technology Awards have honored the development of technologies predicted to ...
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Crown Beverage Packaging North America has designed a new pre-portioned single-use can for US-based La Colombe Coffee Roasters. MiniVault has been designed to deliver café quality ground coffee to consumers in a vessel, which is ...
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Mondi Industrial Bags, along with cement producer LafargeHolcim, has developed a new paper-based solution, called Splashbag. The new paper-based solution can be used for the protection of moisture-sensitive filling goods such as building ...
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Teasdale Latin Foods, which is majority owned by private equity firm Snow Phipps Group, has acquired Rudy's Tortillas, a provider of high quality tortillas and chips into the foodservice channel. Founded in 1945 and based in Carrollton, ...
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Sweden’s sausage expert, the Lithells brand, is introducing a line of barbeque sausages in a new packaging solution from SchurStar Systems. Schur Star said its packaging solutions can help Lithells’ brand can stand out on the ...
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Ireland's Reprographic Systems installed the first Crystal 5080 XPS exposure units in the UK. XPS Crystal is claimed to produce LED UV Exposure that is digitally controlled to result in high quality and highly consistent flexo plate ...
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The global UV LED market will increase from $288m in 2017 to $526m in 2020 while it rises at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34% during 2015-2020, projects LEDinside (a division of TrendForce). UV LEDs are used particularly in ...
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