German carmaker Audi has started construction of the new EUR900m sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufacturing plant in San José Chiapa, Mexico. Claimed to be the Audi's first own car manufacturing plant on the American continent, the ...
Retrofit Frame Increases Forge's Tonnage Capability Erie Press Systems has successfully engineered and installed a complete retrofit open die frame structure at Patriot Forge in Brantford, ON, Canada. The project required replacing the ...
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Packaging printer in Spain Ovelar has bought a new MPS UV flexo press, MPS EF-410, in a bid to increase its shrink sleeve labels production. The new press, which has a printing width of up to 410mm, is the second MPS press that Ovelar has ...
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Izhora Pipe Plant (IPP), a producer of large diameter pipes using strips supplied by the Cherepovets Steel Mill, both business units within the Russian Steel Division of Severstal, one of the world's leading steel and steel-related mining ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
US-based CCS Printing has announced the addition of a new Hewlett-Packard (HP) Indigo 7600 Digital Color Press, in a bid to strengthen its digital offset printing ability. CCS Printing president Kevin Sullivan said the company invested in ...
Tags: packaging applications, printing applications, packaging
The Canadian OSB manufacturer Ainsworth Lumber is having the main machinery from its Cook OSB mill in Minnesota auctioned off. Maynard Industries is running the auction. The auction includes a multi-opening press supplied by Siempelkamp in ...
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The business’s Branded Packaging division is to target the possibilities of the new press, which is 17 units long, at the premium spirits, fine confectionery and personal care markets. It has been installed at Chesapeake’s ...
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Italian printing and converting machines manufacturer Nuova Gidue has launched the new M9 multi-process press for the carton and packaging industry. The press features the completely redesigned M9 Offset print group with heavy-duty ...
Tags: printing and converting machines, Nuova Gidue, packaging industry
General Motors (GM) is planning to invest $600m to expand and upgrade the Fairfax assembly plant in the Kansas City of the US. The expansion, which is expected to be completed in two years, will increase the plant's footprint by over 15% ...
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Part of Chesapeake's Pharmaceutical and Healthcare division, the Komori GLX 740RP carton printing press is a seven-colour machine which includes a reverse printing unit and double coater. The installation follows hot on the heels of a six ...
Chesapeake Limerick, part of Chesapeake’s Pharmaceutical and Healthcare division, will install the first Komori GLX 740RP carton printing press as part of a euro 4m investment program at the site in Ireland. According to Chesapeake, ...
US-based food company Lundberg Family Farms has selected new PRESS-LOK closure technology from Velcro Industries for its new package designs of organic and eco-farmed rice lines. In order to convert its existing lay-down packaging to a ...
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The business, which bought S&C Labels in Huddersfield earlier in the year, is planning to centralise its operations in Leeds and increase its floorspace from 1,000sqm to around 1,800sqm. Alongside the move, which will happen over the ...
Tags: printing press and platemaking system, Print-Leeds, CX 102-7+L
Mexican label converter Impresion y Diseño de Mexico has bought a Xeikon 3500, the flagship model of the Xeikon 3000 Series of digital label presses, in a bid to expand and further improve its digital label production capabilities. ...
Pulp and paper manufacturer in Finland Stora Enso will develop a new digital package printing solution B2 coater, Stora Enso Lakka for the consumer paperboard packaging market. The new Stora Enso Lakka will integrate in-line with the new ...
Tags: Coater, Paperboard Packaging, digital package printing