Constantia Flexibles Group is strengthening its position in the Sub-Saharan African growth market by acquiring the South African flexible packaging company Afripack, subject to regulatory approvals. Durban-based Afripack is the second-largest flexible packaging company in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, producing flexible food packaging and labels for the domestic market and some African countries. Afripack’s …
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Uteco has launched its Next 450 gravure press, designed to achieve faster job change, reduced setup time through automation, maximum-efficiency drying, and simplified controls in a centralised location. Next 450 is the ideal solution for short and medium runs, fully automatic with innovative systems that reduce drastically waste of material, job changeover and energy consumption, …
The continent’s largest ink maker headquartered in Cape Town, Continental Printing Inks and Eagle Ink Systems has manufacturing operations in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban. ` Luxembourg: Flint Group, as part of its strategy to grow in emerging markets, has today announced the launch of a new joint venture with Continental Printing …
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Platemaking system for superior flexo printing matches print quality of offset or gravure Esko won the Technological Innovator of the Year award at the President’s Banquet, April 28, during the FPPA’s 18th Annual Convention for its Full HD Flexo platemaking system. The award recognizes the application of innovative technology contributing to the advancement of the …
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Domino Printing Sciences has launched a new ink for use in its range of G-Series thermal ink jet printers (TIJ) printers. The BK118 ink extends TIJ printing capabilities to effectively code onto challenging materials, such as plastics, films, foils and coated cartons. Employed in a variety of industries ranging from food to pharmaceutical, thermal ink …
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Kingfisher Inks has picked Sharjah-based Sara Manufacturing as the regional distributor for its narrow-web inks.
REVO’s Digital Flexo Revolution, an industry collaboration to ‘digitalise’ flexo printing, is coming to Labelexo Europe on 29 September-2 October with “new revolutionary processes never seen before on a flexo press”.
Bobst’s upcoming digital printing press for corrugated board is now in place at its first beta installation, at Model AG plant in Weinfelden, Switzerland, the manufacturer announced on 27 May.
OMET launched its Varyflex V2 Offset mid-web flexible packaging press and its iFlex UV flexo label press on 19 May.
Xeikon has bagged the EDP Association’s Award for Best Label Printing Solution with its recently launched Xeikon Cheetah digital printer.
