Guardian Industries Corp. has begun production at its Krasny Sulin (Rostov region), Russia float glass manufacturing plant. The initial ribbon pull marking the beginning of production took place yesterday. The Rostov region plant will ...
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Tokyo Electron (TEL) has signed $252.5m agreement to acquire FSI International Tokyo Electron (TEL), a supplier of semiconductor and flat panel display production equipment, has signed $252.5m agreement to acquire US chipmaker FSI ...
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Demand for protective coatings in the European Union has been weakened by the downturn in EU manufacturing due to the euro crisis. But there is a protective coatings segment—coatings for oil and gas pipeline—further east in ...
Tags: protective coatings, EU, euro crisis, coatings for oil and gas pipeline
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
Global supplier of technology and services Metso has announced it will rebuild an off-machine coater of the coated woodfree paper production line at the Changhang mill of Hansol Paper in South Korea, as part of a contract. According to ...
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Print giant Chesapeake has announced the extension of its two-year worldwide spending spree to £45m and added a seventh Komori to its SX40 model at its Nottingham plant that produces folding cartons. The new larger sheet size, ...
Bosch Packaging Technology added more capabilities to its portfolio with new components in the form of the new Xpress 100 tablet press, the Xpress 700 in its updated version and the XL Cota 150 tablet coater among others. Xpress product ...
Bulgaria-based packaging solutions provider Ideal is set to install the New Rapida 105 in July that it had ordered in March 2012. In addition to the six-color coater press, hybrid and UV capability and a film-printing package, Rapida 105 ...
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer, Stora Enso has launched the new Stora Enso Gallop powered by Xerox, with the new, larger sheet size Xerox iGen4 EXP press and an improved coating unit. The new Gallop edition has an integrated inline ...
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Scotland-based packaging and labeling products firm Thomson Print & Packaging has procured the SX52-5+L packaging from Heidelberg at the international print technology fair Drupa in Germany that concluded earlier this month. Thomson will ...
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Polish packaging printer Engas has ordered for a third Rapida 105 from KBA, which will be a six-color version with coater. The system, which is scheduled for installation in a new production hall in September, will also have an extended ...
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Italy-based packaging firm LIC Packaging has ordered the Rapida 162a Twin Pack for its upcoming packaging print needs. The two units to be installed have a coater, automated pile logistics, automatic plate changers, CleanTronic Synchro, ...
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On the occasion of this year's textile exhibition Febratex in Blumenau/Brazil, August 14 - 17, innovative fashion and functional coatings had been the centre of interest at the joint stand of Rudolf Soft and Rudolf Sizing. Novelties ranging ...
Tags: coating effect standards, textile exhibition, textile market
Turn-key labeling services provider Sunwest Print has migrated to Solarsoft Business Systems to streamline operations, in order to replace its manual spreadsheet-based systems with one integrated real-time business system. The firm looked ...
Visitors to the HEGLA stand at glasstec were given a rare opportunity to witness flat glass machining live. A cutting solution for laminated glass and another for float glass were brought along specially to the trade fair in Düsseldorf ...