Toyo Packaging sets productivity benchmark with Bobst

Toyo Packaging, a Pakistan-based flexible packaging converter, has demonstrated the resilience, quality and power of the Bobst Rotomec 4001 gravure printing press by achieving 99.8% production efficiency in 24 hours.   Established in 1989, Toyo Packaging is based at the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate, in the southern part of Karachi, Pakistan. The company employs more …

Syntegon presents new IDH handling system for cookies

With its IDH (Intelligent Direct Handling), Syntegon has announced a new solution for handling and portioning cookies and crackers. The Syntegon IDH is based on a newly developed picker technology using linear motors. The flexible pick-and-place machine not only ensures particularly gentle product handling, but also offers a compact design along with high output and …

Constantia partners with Plasthill to reduce packaging weight

Constantia Flexibles and Plasthill Technical Films, a company of the Dutch Oerlemans Packaging Group, are partnering to bring Constantia Flexibles’ proprietary technology, CompresSeal, to the market in Europe.   Plasthill, a producer of high-end technical films and packaging based in Hillegom, the Netherlands and Austrian based flexible packaging producer Constantia Flexibles, combine their expertise to …

UFlex commissions BOPET films plant in Nigeria, launches new solutions

UFlex Limited, India’s leading multinational in flexible packaging materials and solutions, and polymer sciences, continues to take steps to reach closer to its customer base. The company has commissioned its BOPET film manufacturing plant in the Ogun State of Nigeria with a production capacity of 45,000 TPA. Spread over 37 acres, the plant houses first-of-its-kind …

Even after 150 years, Windmöller & Hölscher continues to evolve

In an exclusive conversation with Packaging MEA editor Ben Daniel, Windmöller & Hölscher sales director Thomas Lengenberg talks about the company’s performance in 2019 and the way forward. Ben (B): How was 2019 for Windmöller & Hölscher in general, and in particular
here in the MEA region? Thomas Lengenberg (TL): 2019 in general was a very …