Chemical company BASF and producer of industrial minerals Omya are working together to create coater-ready barrier solutions for paper and cardboard packaging to cater to an increasing demand. BASF said in a statement that this ...
Tags: pigments, additives, functional barrier, Agriculture
Label and packaging material producer Avery Dennison has invested €7m to expand its plant in Gotha, Central Germany by enhancing its coating and laminated capabilities for self-adhesive label and packaging films.The company has made ...
Tags: Label, packaging material, Agriculture
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
India-based Parksons Packaging will be adding two additional Rapida 106 sheetfed offset presses manufactured by Koenig and Bauer (KBA) to their facilities to increase production capacity. Apart from the two current orders, Parksons has ...
Czech Republic-based Obaly Morava has installed the world’s first HP high-speed inkjet corrugated packaging solution for the digital pre-printing of high-quality corrugated liners. The press was installed in June, making Obaly the ...
Tags: Obaly Morava, Corrugated Packaging Solution, Packaging
Graphic Packaging International, an American paperboard producer for beverages and other consumer goods, will invest $41.5m in the company’s paper mill in West Monroe for upgrading machinery. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and ...
Germany-based Koenig & Bauer (KBA) has supplied two more Rapida 106 series presses to Stora Enso Inpac, located in Guangdong province, China. KBA supplied first two presses of the series to Stora Enso in 2012, which include a ...
Tags: KBA, Stora Enso Inpac, Packaging
API Foils, supplier of metallic, pigment, holographic and cold foils, will initially install a new metalliser which it says will increase the site's capacity for the metallisation process by 150%. In early 2015 the company plans to ...
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has published an informational guide about ENVIRON MCL coatings, an environmentally-friendly, water-based coating for application on metallic coating lines over GALVALUME coated sheet ...
Tags: MCL Coatings, PPG
Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated its state-of-the-art textile coating pilot line in Shanghai, China. At its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany, the company has also installed new lab facilities, among them a lab coater. Along with the ...
Tags: textile coating, Bayer
Sensors Deliver Efficiencies for Technology Center Yokogawa's WEBFREX3ES online sensor is now included in Faustel's Technology Center. The sensor performs accurate online measurements of film and sheet thickness. It produces graphs ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
German Koenig & Bauer (KBA) is set to deliver a new medium-format KBA Rapida 106 to Russian packaging printer Typografia Petchatnja in May 2014. The new 25m-long press is said to be the fourth KBA Rapida press commissioned by the printing ...
Tags: packaging printer, Packaging, Printing
Packaging printer in Poland Intropak Pochocki & Wspólnicy has installed a six-color KBA Rapida 105 with coater. The press, which is mounted on a 450mm plinth for printing packaging at Intropak, is equipped for mixed operation ...
Tags: Packaging Printer, KBA Press
Ilim Group has started the production of coated freesheet at its mill, situated in Koryazhma, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. With the help of new line built at the mill, the company will annually produce around 90 thousand tons of ...
Tags: Ilim Group, Coated Freesheet
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