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One-year-old brand Vinsak appeared at Gulf Print & Pack (GPP) for the first time with prepress and brand protection products.

Prati, which has attended Gulf Print & Pack since 2007, had its best response so far at this year’s event, said Chiara Prati, sales director, Prati.

Printech Middle East closed sales at Gulf Print & Pack 2013 for Prati, Eltex, Minipack and Robopac machines and generated interest in Omet, Apex and Basix kit.

Nilpeter Middle East used GPP 2013 to highlight its finishing kit as well as its range of narrow- and mid-web printing presses for self-adhesive labels and flexible packaging.

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.