UV curing refers to a particular way of energy/radiation curing wherein various product formulations, including coatings, inks, adhesives, and further materials may be cured, rather than using traditional methods which are usually energy ...
US-based Vomela Specialty has completed the acquisition of the Bureau of Engraving’s printing division. According to Vomela, the acquired printing division will form a part of the company and will be operated under the name The ...
Munich-based WACKER Group has adopted the motto "Discover Tomorrow's Solutions" for this year's Middle East Coatings Show (MECS), in Dubai from March 10 to 12. The company is unveiling a new dispersible polymer powder for cost-efficient, ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
easyFairs, organisers of the fastest growing network of European packaging events, has announced that its packaging portfolio right across Europe will evolve around four major core show concepts: Packaging Innovations, Empack, Label&Print ...
The business, which has 27 packaging shows in 11 countries across Europe, is to align each of the events under one of four brands: Packaging Innovations, Empack, Label&Print and Luxury Packaging. The move is designed to provide ...
Tags: Luxury Packaging, Label&Print
The Klockner Pentaplast Group has launched a new pharmaceutical laminated barrier film production line at its site in Villa Del Totoral, Argentina. The laminating line, which involved an investment of $3.3m, is set to expand the company's ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Barrier, Packaging, Klockner
Victoria University has a big act to follow. At last year’s IAPRI World Packaging Conference, a record 170 delegates from 24 countries were represented. There were 93 presentations for the oral and poster categories, produced by some ...
Tags: environmental performance of packaging, packaging ecodesign tool
Flint Group Flexographic Products has introduced the new high durometer digital photopolymer flexographic printing plate, nyloflex ACE UP Digital. Specially designed to be used with water based inks in corrugated preprint and aseptic ...
KBA's majority takeover of Kammann Maschinenbau in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, sees the firm enter the directly decorating luxury glass packaging sector. Along with screen-printing systems, Kammann's flexible transport systems can also be ...
Tags: KBA, Packaging Market
Austria-based packaging solutions provider Mayr-Melnhof Karton (MMK) has introduced new coated recyclable cartonboard grade 'FOODBOARD' for food packaging. FOODBOARD includes an ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly barrier ...
Tags: Mayr-Melnhof, Food Packaging
Like most nascent technologies, digital print is a hotbed of innovation, with countless R&D hours being poured into developing higher speed, wider web presses, achieving single pass production and improving colour consistency. But how ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, digital printing
The firm said that its new ‘Direct Dispenser’ is a fast, automatic labour-saving way of dispensing process colours, coatings and ready-mixed colours that need no blending directly to the packaging printing press. Suited for ...
Tags: Direct Dispenser, Inks
cynora GmbH and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) jointly announce the successful launch of Project cyFLEX. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will serve as a basis for generating flexible and luminescent surfaces for smart ...
Tags: Luminescent Packaging, Lighting
Klockner Pentaplast, a global packaging, printing, and specialty solutions provider, is set to invest €45.6m, as part of its production capacity expansion plans for 2013-2014. The company will expand its facilities in Cotia, Brazil; ...
Tags: Production Capacity, Food
Packaging technology is an important symbol of modern civilization, and modern civilization packaging machinery is to achieve material guarantee. With the rapid development of commodity economy prosperity and people's living standard ...
Tags: Packaging Machinery, Packaging, Processing Machinery, filling machine