The new Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) for Australia's food packaging was given the final go-ahead by commonwealth, state and territory consumer affairs ministers this week. Each label will indicate the proportion of Australian ...
Tags: Country of Origin, CoOL, Green Light, Food packaging
AstroNova has developed new label printer, QL-111, for industrial, commercial, warehouse and manufacturing/distribution facilities. Available from QuickLabel Systems, the QL-111 color label printer is designed to label all types of ...
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Constantia Flexibles announed that strong sales growth resulted from all business divisions and was achieved primarily by strong volume increases in all regions. Constantia Flexibles, one of the world's leading flexible packaging and ...
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Transilwrap Company, a manufacturer of specialty film products, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the specialty films business of US based Dow Chemical. Dow's specialty films business provides film solutions used in medical, ...
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Siegwerk Druckfarben, one of the international suppliers of printing inks for packaging applications, labels, and catalogs, has signed a contract to purchase the printing ink manufacturer ACTEGA Colorchemie and its subsidiaries. The ...
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Xeikon, an innovator in digital color printing technology, will be showcasingits Fusion Technology at drupa 2016, Messe Düsseldorf, May 31 to June 10. Following its highly successful launch at Labelexpo,Xeikon is delighted to present ...
Tags: Xeikon, Fusion Technology, Durupa 2016, Automated Digital Label
Esko has completely updated its software solutions and relaunched under the umbrella brand name “Esko Software Platform”. It's the next version of the well-known portfolio of integrated software solutions for design, prepress, ...
A new smart wine bottle with the ability to keep drinkers’ favourite reds and whites fresh for 30 days, while educating them on key characteristics and pairing options, will go on sale later this year. The Kuvée Bottle, which ...
Tags: KuvéE Bottle, Wine, Instant Re-Ordering
Benny Landa, founder of Indigo and now chairman of Landa Group, has announced that his company's new Nano-Metallography technology innovation for the graphics metallisation will offer zero-waste metallisation, reducing costs by more than ...
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For our March-April issue, we partnered with HP, Currie Group and Blue Star Print to produce 4500 different versions of the front cover, with three variable areas on the cover itself: the design on the can, the PKN masthead, and the version ...
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Xeikon will present its new Fusion Technology (first launched at Labelexpo) to a wider print production market at drupa, showing the possibility of fully automated, unattended label and packaging production. Fusion consists of a series ...
Tags: Digital Printing, Xeikon, Fusion Technology, Drupa, Packaging production
Prepress specialist Esko has updated its software solutions and relaunched them under the name of Esko Software Platform. Esko provides integrated software solutions for design, prepress, workflow automation, colour management and ...
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A Belgian brewery has announced it will do away with labels for its PET bottles. Martens Brewery, which became known for its digitally printed PET bottles late last year, is again leveraging Direct Print industrial-scale digital printing ...
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Meat products and snack foods have been identified as growth markets in the US according to America’s Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI). Surveying 70 US-based professionals across the food processing ...
Tags: PMMI, Meat Products, Snack Food
ConAgra Foods has joined other food giants in plans to use labels that disclose the presence of genetically modified organisms or GMOs in its food throughout the US. ConAgra and other food companies such as Campbell Soup Co , General ...
Tags: ConAgra Foods, GMOs, Labels