Klingele Group has invested in the new high board line rotary die cutter, CorruCUT, from Koenig & Bauer. Klingele has placed an order for six-colour press with a working width of 2,800 mm for its Delmenhorst box facility. This press is ...
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Packaging and paper producer Mondi is set to invest in its Mondi Simet plant near Pozna, Poland to strengthen its heavy duty corrugated capabilities in Europe. The investment will see installation of a 2.8m corrugator with three single ...
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According a new report from Smithers Pira, corrugated board packaging market to reach $269bn in 2021, though the annual growth rate is expected to decrease to 3.6%. Growth in demand for corrugated board packaging is showing signs of a ...
Belgium-based Esko has introduced a new tool, CorruSpeed, designed for its Kongsberg family of cutting tables for high-speed cutting of corrugated board without oscillating. Available for Kongsberg C Series, X Series, XP and XE cutting ...
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Troika Systems, the developer of quality control management systems for the print industry, will unveil two new technologies at Drupa 2016. At Drupa, Troika will launch CorruCAM, a tool that is able to measure aniloxes within corrugated ...
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The European economy is forecast to grow by circa 1.2% this year, given fresh impetus by the €60 billion a month of quantitative easing recently initiated by the ECB. This has caused a significant depreciation of the euro; we’ll ...
The corrugated sector received a jolt yesterday with reports that International Paper was mulling over a £6bn bid for Smurfit Kappa. With both parties remaining tight lipped on the reports, we can only speculate on what such a ...
Tags: Smurfit Kappa, Packaging
HP and Koenig & Bauer Group (KBA) have announced that they will collaborate to develop new roll-to-roll inkjet solutions for the high-volume corrugated packaging market. The co-developed solutions will be marketed under the HP brand and ...
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Obaly Morava, a privately-owned corrugated board producer based in the Czech Republic, had the press installed to boost supplies of its broad range of corrugated products to the Czech Republic and surrounding markets, including up to ...
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HP has responded to the growing need for high impact graphics with fast turnaround on short-run packaging and displays. Its new wide-format press, the HP Scitex 15000 Corrugated Press, promises to deliver vivid retail displays that exceed ...
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EFI today announced that it has acquired Group Rhapso (Rhapso), a printing and packaging software solutions developer based in Les Ulis, France. While financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, it is not expected to be ...
Based in Eskisehir, North West Turkey, OMK employs 260 people with sales of approximately €20m. Saica is forecasting the corrugated market in Turkey to grow strongly with the potential to be one of the largest in Europe, driven by ...
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The gap between Kraft and Testliner prices had grown and hence a narrowing made sense. Foreign Kraft producers found the UK market increasingly attractive…which raised supply. There has been a further switch out of Kraft into the less ...
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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Irish paper-based packaging company Smurfit Kappa has announced an investment package comprising a six-color flexographic, rotary die-cut press, a new material handling system and corrugator upgrades for its Yate, Bristol plant in the UK. ...
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