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Ancillary equipment

Gerhardt to sell direct in Australia and New Zealand

21 March 2011

Gerhardt International has ended its agency agreement with Jet Technologies and will now sell its dies and rotary tools direct to converters in...

CCL to invest in joint venture label company for Middle East

21 March 2011

Global converting group CCL Industries has signed a binding agreement to acquire a 50 percent interest in Pacman-CCL, a privately owned group of...

Sustainability

Avery opens European design center for apparel industry

21 March 2011

Avery Dennison’s Retail Branding and Information Solutions (RBIS) group opened its first Europe-based customer design and innovation center for the...

Digital printing

Xeikon America partners with industry consultants

21 March 2011

Xeikon has entered into partnerships with two leading industry consultants to offer objective and unbiased business development services to label...

Substrates & adhesives

Color-Logic certifies substrate for HP Indigo sheet-fed presses

21 March 2011

Color-Logic has certified US converter Hazen Paper Company’s Transfer Metalized C1S Foiljet Digital 10-point substrate for use with HP Indigo 7000...

Pira reports luxury packaging growth in Asia Pacific

18 March 2011

A newly released study by Pira International, an international research firm specializing in the packaging supply chain, reveals that luxury goods...

KBA Rapida 105 for high-growth packaging market

17 March 2011

Innovapack Embalagens is the latest Brazilian packaging printer to invest in new technology to cater for the booming domestic demand, when it fired up...

TLMI announces Eugene Singer Award winners

17 March 2011

TLMI has announced the winners of the Eugene Singer Award for Management Excellence. One of TLMI’s highest honors, this award recognizes...

Substrates & adhesives

UPM Raflatac achieves FSC and PEFC certifications in Finland

17 March 2011

UPM Raflatac has achieved both FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody certifications for a range of labelstock produced at its Tampere factory in Finland....

New products

PPP Digital Imaging unveils sleeve development

17 March 2011

PPP Digital Imaging now offers ITR Multi Sleeves, a system that allows individual coils to be supplied instead of full length sleeves. This provides...

Inks & coatings

Flint Group to host annual awards at Labelexpo Europe

17 March 2011

For the seventh time, Flint Group will host its annual Narrow Web Print Awards during Labelexpo Europe, to be held in Brussels in September. The...

Australian converter installs second HP Indigo 5500

17 March 2011

Sydney-based Clarke Murphy Print NSW, a general purpose print shop which began using digital technology in late 2009, has installed its second...