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‘The demand for pressure-sensitive labels has been growing rapidly since Covid,’ explains says Sandeep Juneja, owner at Pinnacle Traxim. ‘We saw it as a good time to tap the opportunity and grow with the market. Thus the decision to invest in a digital press. We have been closely following...

Founded in 2001, Hongyuanqing’s business is divided in two parts. One division focuses on developing anti-counterfeiting materials, the other on print production of anti-counterfeit labels, which now account for 80 percent of total business volume.

With support from Tsinghua University’s...

Since DIC India caters to both the packaging and publishing industries, one of the major challenges it faced was reinventing the raw material mix to continue seamless service to the market. Manish Bhatia, CEO and managing director at DIC India, says: ‘China started going through the Covid crisis...

The Indian converter had invested in a disused warehouse in early 2020 but the planning phase was interrupted by the lockdown. Undeterred, Anuj Bhargava, CEO of Kumar Labels, decided to press ahead. With the help of a contractor, they drew highly detailed plans of the layout, including specifics...

Perhaps no one company epitomizes that word better than Michigan-based MacArthur Corporation, which enacted many changes as the Covid-19 pandemic forced the company to examine all the ways it does business.

Early in the pandemic, MacArthur Corporation got its hands on a CDC flu pandemic...

Today, Riber prints a wide range of adhesive labels with up to 12 colors on an extensive list of substrates – paper, special papers and plastic films – for virtually any type of application. Its labels can mainly be found on food products, but also household chemicals, wine bottles and...

The process of planning jobs and managing their production through a label or package printing plant can be quite complex. The process needs to constantly monitor the changing workload of individual machines and printing processes, complete print production orders to schedule, and maintain...

When we consider the purpose of the die-cutting tool, it becomes obvious how accurate the manufacture of the tool has to be. The bottom line regarding the purpose of die-cutting is to ensure that the self-adhesive label not only leaves the liner carrier cleanly and efficiently on the label...

Packaging can be smarter and ‘digitally connected’ when combined with distributed computer systems and the web. This change will revolutionize productivity and quality while delivering new capability in a variety of product packaging applications. This capability has led to the fourth Industrial...

Workflow automation increasingly integrates all processes and production stages, be it of management information, pre-press, or the press and other process stages. It is undoubtedly the direction the industry is going in terms of running tomorrow’s printing presses and converting plants. ...