10 Apr 2013Features

MacDermid announces global price increase for photopolymer products

MacDermid Printing Solutions has announced a global price increase of three to seven percent for its photopolymer products.
 
This increase will be effective June 1, 2013. MacDermid’s sales representatives will soon contact customers to discuss the details of the...

02 Apr 2013Features

Gidue to launch M3 Digital Flexo in China

- China Print launch follows first M9 to China
 
- Digital Flexo technology improves set-up time and waste
 
Italian press manufacturer Nuova Gidue will launch its new M3 Digital Flexo press at China Print....

28 Mar 2013Features

Building a better business

A print business is only as good as the parts from which it is made, according to the organizer of Gulf Print & Pack 2013, which is aiming to present the MENA region with the latest technologies and trends to create, nurture and capitalize on new opportunities. David Pittman reports...

16 Jan 2013Features

South African carton converter banks on Bobst

A Bobst Expertfold 80 with Accubraille is helping South African carton converter Britepak diversify its operations beyond the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets
 
Johannesburg-based Britepak, part of the Transpaco Group, has invested in Bobst carton...

14 Jan 2013Features

The year of fully digital cutting and creasing

Eitan Varon, vice president of marketing at Highcon, considers the impact the company’s digital creasing and cutting system will have on the converting sector.
 
Quite simply, the folding carton world will begin its digital transformation in 2013. Brand...

08 Jan 2013Features

ISO comes to in-line color

Achieving ISO compliance with an in-line spectrophotometer is a more difficult project than first appears. John Seymour, color expert at QuadTech, lays out the issues

Conformity to global standards is the basis for ensuring the products and services we use are safe, reliable, and...

02 Jan 2013Features

The science of contact cleaning for drinks packaging

Roy Cannon (pictured, left), product manager at contact cleaning equipment manufacturer Teknek, details how contact cleaning can help printers and converters deliver fault-free drinks packaging
 
Printers and converters must process materials that can be...

01 Jan 2013Features

Sustainable Brands '12

 End users are finally talking to their supply chain about sustainable packaging. Danielle Jerschefske reports 

One thousand three hundred people representing some of the world’s foremost brands including...

10 Dec 2012Features

Sistrade plans take-off of business in MENA

Firás Masri (pictured, left), research and business development manager for the Middle East and North Africa markets at Portuguese software company Sistrade, details the company’s growth plans for the region.
 
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...

04 Dec 2012Features

Award-winning luxury packaging boosts demand for gourmet chocolates

When Hammer-Lübeck won a Pro Carton/ECMA Carton Award for the second time in four years, Nick Coombes looked into the secret of its sweet success.
 
Chocolate is both a consumable product and a luxury gift – but how do you differentiate between the two? The...

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