Author: PackagingMEA

Kodak Middle East and Africa targeted packaging industry professionals with “visibly challenging” samples of its Flexcel NX technology at Gulf Print & Pack 2013.

While plastic packaging is grabbing market share globally, metal containers are on a solid upward trend in regional markets such as Africa and the Middle East, writes Debabrata Deb.

Offset printing and rotary technology have never seemed a perfect match for package printing – where folding cartons are dominated by sheetfed offset and flexible packaging by gravure or CI and inline flexo – but rotary offset is now grabbing a slice of the market, writes Nick Coombes.

Despite the Middle East’s political turbulence, label converters can expect new business opportunities and are gearing for expansion with mergers that could herald a switch to digital, reports Catherine Diamond.

Future Film, a subsidiary of the ENPI Group’s Future Plast, is offering an expanded range of speciality films with improved environmental qualities along with practical benefits, reports Benjamin Daniel.

Bobst offers a pre-processing solution that guarantees perfect adhesion of adhesive to the glue flap for synthetic packaging and for laminated and varnished paperboards such as metallised boxes, writes Benjamin Daniel.

Although flexible packaging in Asia is dominated by gravure technology, central impression (CI) flexo technology – enhanced through the introduction of the chambered doctor blade – can offer a host of advantages, writes Debabrata Deb.

Self-adhesive labelling is a dynamic and creative sector of packaging, in which FINAT’s Industry Trends sub-committee, headed by Ferdi Ruesch of Gallus, sees several key trends, writes Jules Lejeune, managing director of FINAT.

In a complex value chain, solutions and challenges abound for the labelling industry, says Jules Lejeune of the trade association FINAT.