News

Brand owners & design

ILS hosts HP-sponsored brand owner event

02 June 2011

Consumer product packaging brand owners, designers, production specialists and procurement professionals learned about the advantages of digital...

Sustainability

Torraspapel supports World Environment Day

02 June 2011

Spanish material manufacturer Torraspapel has announced its support for World Environment Day, a global event taking place on June 5 that seeks to...

New products

Kodak unveils Virtual Operating Environment

02 June 2011

Kodak, through a partnership with VMware, is launching its first Virtual Operating Environment option for its Unified Workflow Solutions. The new...

Substrates & adhesives

Roxcel acquires Brigl & Bermeister

02 June 2011

Vienna, Austria-based multinational paper trading company Roxcel Group has purchased paper manufacturer Brigl & Bergmeister from the Prinzhorn...

Kenyan converter installs Focus flexo press

02 June 2011

The Paper House of Kenya has installed a new 8-color Proflex 330 Servo flexo press from UK-based manufacturer Focus Label Machinery. This is the...

Plates & platemaking

FTA names EskoArtwork’s Mark Samworth to Hall of Fame

01 June 2011

The US Flexographic Technical Association has named Mark Samworth, color consultant at EskoArtwork, the 49th – and youngest – inductee into its Hall...

China success for KBA Rapida 75

01 June 2011

KBA is reporting increasing demand for its litho presses among commercial, book and packaging printers in China. One example in the Shanghai...

Plates & platemaking

Flint Group honors its Dealer of the Year

01 June 2011

In 2001, Flint Group Flexographic Products introduced its Dealer of the Year award and nominated Dereli Graphic as the first winner. Now, ten years...

Ancillary equipment

DuPont to manufacture Cyrel round sleeves in Europe

31 May 2011

DuPont Packaging Graphics has announced the planned start-up of its new Cyrel round manufacturing facility at its site in Neu-Isenburg, Germany....

Ancillary equipment

Apex Group to manufacture in Brazil

31 May 2011

Apex Group of Companies has opened an anilox roll manufacturing facility in Curitiba, Brazil. The move follows recent investment in new headquarters...

Plates & platemaking

Leftech appoints Colombian distributor for Toyobo products

31 May 2011

Argentina-based Leftech, the Latin American representative of Japanese company Toyobo, has appointed Química Vulcano as its distributor in...

Digital first for Greece

31 May 2011

Award-winning converter Forlabels has installed the first HP Indigo WS6000 in Greece. Andy Thomas reports Forlabels was founded by entrepreneur...