Pressure sensitive label materials supplier UPM Raflatac has decided to invest around €13m in a new coating line at its self-adhesive labelstock factory in Nowa Wies, Poland. The investment will allow the company to increase the ...
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Renewable and recyclable materials provider UPM is set to shut down its paper mill located at Docelles in France. For closing the Docelles mill,the company had already completed employee information and consultation negotiations,and also ...
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Minerals Technologies has signed an agreement with UPM-Kymmene Corporation to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Changshu, China. To be located in Jiangsu province on site at UPM's paper mill, the new ...
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UPM Raflatac, a supplier of pressure sensitive label materials, has launched a new label film for A4 and cut-size printing in logistics and transport applications. The new Polylaser Logistics Fit label stock offers all the required ...
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UPM Raflatac has added three new products to a range of thermally printable tags purpose-designed for netted produce. The new Fruit Tag Gloss, Fruit Tag Thermal Eco and Fruit Tag Thermal Top feature a special adhesive which gives dry ...
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UPM Raflatac has added three new products to a range of thermally printable tags purpose-designed for netted produce. The new Fruit Tag Gloss, Fruit Tag Thermal Eco and Fruit Tag Thermal Top feature a special adhesive which gives dry ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, printable tags, tags
Labelexpo Asia 2013 reached new visitor heights as it celebrated its tenth anniversary edition. Held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) during 3 – 6 December, the four day exhibition was attended by a huge number of ...
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The LCA model enables the companies to track their products from raw material through to consumer use and disposal, and detects areas of major environmental impacts and then help reduce those impacts. "To achieve the ultimate goal of ...
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Finland-based label materials provider UPM Raflatac has partnered with Unilever to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging labels across their lifecycle. Under the partnership, the companies have developed lifecycle assessment (LCA) ...
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The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
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UPM was announced as the sector leader for the materials industry at the launch of CDP’s forests annual report. CDP’s forests program asks companies to disclose their exposure to deforestation risks through their use of five ...
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Plastek design, manufactures and decorates packaging products for the personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food markets. UPM Conveyors installed the first system for Plastek UK in 2005 and have now completed their third additional ...
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There is new recycled containerboard capacity scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2013. Blue Paper, a joint venture between VPK and Klingele Papierwerke (Germany), is in the final stages of converting a fine paper machine (from UPM ...
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UPM has achieved a top position in Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Nordic 260 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) for the fifth year running. UPM was ranked in the index with top scores: 99 points out of 100 maintaining the ...
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UPM Raflatac has introduced a new permanent adhesive RP 30 XTRA for labeling wines, spirits and beverages. According to the company, RP 30 XTRA holds good adhesion on glass, which will enable smaller label sizes and more complex label ...
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