An international delegation of gravure specialists led by the European Rotogravure Association (ERA) built links with Iran’s printers and packagers at a recent seminar in Tehran.
Sabic looks to renewable feedstocks
Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) is poised to make plastics from waste fat and cooking oil for packaging food and medicines.
Ti targets luxury packaging with Spanish takeover
Taghleef Industries (Ti), a global biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BoPP) producer, has completed its acquisition of Derprosa Film, a leading Spanish supplier of flexible films for the packaging industry and the graphic arts applications.
Korozo becomes Kodak’s first certified MEA partner
Korozo, the leading flexible packaging and carrier bag producer in Turkey, has become the first Kodak Certified Partner in Turkey, Middle East and Africa through meeting the requirements of a certification programme for Kodak Flexcel NX plates.
Color-Logic targets Gulf
US-based Color-Logic is now focusing on bringing its Process Metallic Color System to the Gulf region, says Mark Geeves, director of sales and marketing for Color-Logic.
DubaiPrint.com goes live
Dubai-based premedia, CGI, digital printing and prepress services company NDigitec has launched its web-to-print platform, DubaiPrint.com
Afra to sell Mohr cutters
Dubai-based Afra Asianray Printing Equipment Trading LLC is now the regional distributor for Mohr paper guillotines.
Raqam invests $3.5m and targets ‘A-class markets’
Raqam International, a Riyadh-based label printer and converter specialised in computer-cut vinyl stickers, signage, retail product labels, barcodes and laser and computer labels, has invested $3.5m to develop its converting lines to serve new markets.
Future Card gets Kodak Approval proofer
Sharjah-based Future Card has installed what it describes as the Gulf’s first Kodak Approval half-tone digital proofing system.
Workz: Dubai’s variable data specialist seeks new markets
Richelle Wiley and Malcolm Keightley tell Benjamin Daniel how Workz supplies 20 million metres of finished board products yearly – going from blank paper to finished SIM card in two and a half minutes – and now aims to expand from telecom markets into areas such as pharmaceuticals.