Features

Brand owners & design

Ste. Michelle elects Smart Planet to reduce impact

26 September 2014

Ste. Michelle values our environment and is making business decisions that help reduce its products' impact on it.

Brand owners & design

Smart Planet’s mineralized resins make impact

26 September 2014

Using traditional extrusion coating equipment, Smart Planet Technologies’ mineralized resins are replacing plastic coatings, offering production...

Family business LTI continues legacy of value

26 September 2014

LTI celebrates partnerships, investment and business growth at its renovated facility in North Carolina.

Finishing & embellishment

Kocher + Beck moves into web handling and more

26 September 2014

One of the founding companies of the self-adhesive label industry, die specialist Kocher + Beck is diversifying into web handling and screen printing...

Digital printing

Quebec label converter selects SPGPrints digital

26 September 2014

Multi Action Labels has entered short run label and prototyping markets with SPGPrints’ digital label converting workflow, Adrian Tippetts writes.

Associations, events & awards

Andean label converters feature in Colombia

19 September 2014

A panel session at Label Summit Latin America in Medellin brought together converters from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia.

Finishing & embellishment

Edale and AB Graphic’s finishing touch

19 September 2014

The Digicon 3000 finishing line, the result of a collaboration between AB Graphic and Edale, is now starting to hit the market as the latest...

Substrates & adhesives

Forward Roll

19 September 2014

With the commissioning of its new logistics center, Herma has completed an investment in Lean manufacturing which is a model for the wider labels...

Novaprint Offset Investment Targets Gravure

19 September 2014

The installation of a second VSOP 850 press at NovaPrint-Oldenburg, with automated Martin roll handling, has opened new product and market...

Revo Team Drives Digital Flexo ‘Revolution’

19 September 2014

Nuova Gidue and seven leading industry partners have launched a complete UV flexo package that allows conventional print to fight back against digital...

Indian converter Zircon Invests to Keep Ahead

19 September 2014

Indian converter Zircon Technologies is aiming to become a major regional player with a series of investments across labels and package print sectors.

EiM Choose Mark Andy P5 model with ProLED

19 September 2014

EIM, based in the Sonoran desert of Mexico, is leading the adoption of UV LED curing technology for flexographic label printing