AGPP General Manager Lakshmanan Ganapathy explains Packaging MEA, the company’s recent investments and why he believes reducing imports is key to boosting local business Expanding into adjacent markets is tougher than it looks. When AlGhurair Printing and Publishing (AGPP) moved into packaging print in 2018, it was no surprise that one of …
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Packaging MEA editor Ben Daniel explores how a combination of experience and expertise has made customers glowing about OMET’s narrow and mid web flexographic and combination printing presses and their team. With customer expectations on the increase, label and flexible packaging print and conversion have opened up more choice and competition. This has …
Raqam International, a Riyadh-based manufacturer of high-quality labels, has boosted its finishing and converting capacity by installing three Prati Jupiter 670 machines. Raqam’s Managing Director,Khalid Aziz Shah said: “We have invested in three Jupiter 670 mid-web slitter rewinder finishing solutions, implementing top-level quality control. “As for substrate compatibility, the system can convert …
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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is systematically pursuing the company’s realignment. Having decided to focus on its core business of sheetfed printing, Heidelberg is selling the Gallus Group to the Swiss packaging business benpac holding ag in Stans while facing up to the challenging situation created by Covid-19. In the future, Heidelberg and benpac …
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KHS has systematically restructured its labeling technology towards modular systems and solutions with the addition of the modular Innoket Neo Flex machine to its tried-and-tested Innoket Neo series. With its quick-change modules this flexible system masters all standard labeling techniques. With its new labeling machine the KHS Group is consistently advancing its modular system design …
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LX600 Colour Label Printer produces short runs of high-quality labels quickly and at a low cost per label. Primera Technology, Inc., a leading manufacturer of specialised digital colour printers, announced LX600, its newest desktop colour label printer. LX600 is a compact, highly capable desktop colour label printer. With its maximum print width of 5″ (127mm), …
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Siegwerk, one of the leading suppliers of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, and Varcotec, a specialist for technically sophisticated overprint varnishes made for the printing industry, have entered into a distribution partnership for Varcotec’s Lock 3 antimicrobial coating technology in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). This innovative dispersion varnish is …
The new N95 masks reportedly adhere gently to the face with double-coated, skin-friendly adhesive. Avery Dennison recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Global Safety First, LLC (GSF) to produce and distribute a self-adhesive, NIOSH-certified N95 mask as part of the company’s efforts to provide innovative personal protective equipment (PPE) in response …
UPM Raflatac is taking a major step toward creating a circular economy by collaborating with Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry. Together they have created the first polypropylene (PP) label film manufactured from post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic on a mass balance basis. Now available globally, this label material uses Sabic’s groundbreaking Trucircle solutions for …
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With demand for certain products at an all-time high, and timely supply potentially a matter of life and death, FINAT points out the role of appropriate labelling Labels and labelling technology are an essential feature for the medical supply chain – and never has this been more important than during the coronavirus pandemic. Labels provide …
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