US-based Color-Logic is now focusing on bringing its Process Metallic Color System to the Gulf region, says Mark Geeves, director of sales and marketing for Color-Logic.
DubaiPrint.com goes live
Dubai-based premedia, CGI, digital printing and prepress services company NDigitec has launched its web-to-print platform, DubaiPrint.com
Afra to sell Mohr cutters
Dubai-based Afra Asianray Printing Equipment Trading LLC is now the regional distributor for Mohr paper guillotines.
Raqam invests $3.5m and targets ‘A-class markets’
Raqam International, a Riyadh-based label printer and converter specialised in computer-cut vinyl stickers, signage, retail product labels, barcodes and laser and computer labels, has invested $3.5m to develop its converting lines to serve new markets.
Future Card gets Kodak Approval proofer
Sharjah-based Future Card has installed what it describes as the Gulf’s first Kodak Approval half-tone digital proofing system.
Workz: Dubai’s variable data specialist seeks new markets
Richelle Wiley and Malcolm Keightley tell Benjamin Daniel how Workz supplies 20 million metres of finished board products yearly – going from blank paper to finished SIM card in two and a half minutes – and now aims to expand from telecom markets into areas such as pharmaceuticals.
Manjushree’s revenues climb 21%
India-based PET bottle and preform supplier Manjushree Technopack – an exporter to Africa and the Middle East as well as Thailand – has announced its revenue for the 12 months to 31 March totalled Rs4.38bn ($745m), a 21% year-on-year rise.
Unilever plans $150m factory in Kenya
Unilever aims to invest $150m to open a Kenyan plant, the company’s largest investment in Africa.
Drupa to highlight packaging in 2016
Packaging – along with multichannel publishing and green printing – will be a key area at the next Drupa tradeshow, in Dusseldorf from 31 May to 10 June 2016.
DuPont contest picks two winners from MEA
DuPont’s annual Award for Packaging Innovation contest has chosen a honey pot made from beeswax in Morocco and a soup packet tailored for African markets among its 16 prize winners.