Features

Ancillary equipment

Pressure on productivity? Try automation

10 April 2012

How can roll change automation make a difference to boosting profitability? Gavin Rittmeyer, vice president of sales and marketing at Martin...

Heidelberg’s package printing promise

09 March 2012

Packaging is seen as core to Heidelberg’s future strategy and growth, and an area that will get plenty of attention under the HEI End banner at Drupa...

Heidelberg’s package printing promise

09 March 2012

Packaging is seen as a core to Heidelberg’s future strategy and growth, and an area that will get plenty of attention under the HEI END banner at...

Addressing today’s packaging challenges

09 March 2012

Nick Coombes spoke to some of the UK’s leading carton converters to find out how technology helps them to help their customers

Narrow investments balance wider portfolio

09 March 2012

Wide format specialist, Flower City, invests in flexography and digital, expanding its business platform for efficiency and service needs writes...

Digital printing

Remember the barcode battles?

24 February 2012

I was where I have most of my good ideas (in the shower) this morning when, out of nowhere, I remembered Barcode Battler, a rudimentary handheld...

Substrates & adhesives

Surreal cereal (packaging)

24 February 2012

London’s free morning newspaper Metro had an interesting piece on its p3 today about food brand Kellogg and its production of a one-off cereal for...

Brand owners & design

UV flexo for food packaging

21 February 2012

Federico d’Annunzio, managing director of Nuova Gidue Srl, assesses the advantages and challenges of UV flexo inks and in-line UV flexo presses and...

Finishing & embellishment

Rotary die cutting for the future

21 February 2012

Steve Lee, vice president of technology at RotoMetrics, and James Wellsbury, the rotary tooling specialist’s packaging business development director,...