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The digital format "drupa preview" will provide a preview of the next live drupa event with its three areas "Exhibition Space", "Conference Area" and "Networking Plaza". Exhibitors will present their companies and products, speakers will...
At first sight, specializing in the impossible doesn’t look like the best way to build a profitable long-term business. For Pennsylvania-based prepress house Imageworx, however, it’s a strategy that has proved highly successful for more...
Up to 600 tons of curbside recycling get hauled each day into the TotalRecyle plant in Birdsboro, Berks County, where tens of thousands of milk jugs, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, and other items are sorted...
Brook and Whittle Holding Corp., a leading provider of sustainable pressure sensitive and shrink sleeve prime labels, announced a partnership with Tri Print, LLC. Based in Huntington Beach, California, Tri Print is a provider of...
Siegwerk, one of the leading global providers of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, further expands its range of sustainable ink solutions according to the Cradle to Cradle® (C2C) principle focusing especially on solutions...
In between the flashing lights, restaurants and retail stores that are iconic to Times Square, New Yorkers will soon be able to experience a new attraction. At first glance, it may look like a regular...
Advanced recycling company ReNew ELP has been awarded a £4.42 million grant from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency, to build the world's first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant using Cat-HTR technology. The grant will aid...
Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider; Neste, the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and a forerunner in drop-in renewable and circular chemical solutions; and Unilever, the consumer goods manufacturer...
In recent years there has been significant attention on plastics pollution in the world’s oceans and ecosystems, with iconic images of injured marine life that draw universal sympathy and calls to action. These concerns have...
While plastics recycling is not new science, current processes don't make it economically worthwhile— waste plastics get "down-cycled" into lower grade, less useful material. It's a challenge that continues to be an obstacle in tackling...
Sustainability in packaging, specifically in the labels market, is a goal on the minds of virtually all brands and CPGs. As consumers are looking for more sustainable packaging solutions, the industry is transitioning its focus...
AIMPLAS, Plastics Technology Centre, closed the 2019 financial year with revenue of €13.3 million, which represents a 14% increase compared to the previous year. In 2019, the technology centre also made progress in terms of...
Printing United Alliance, the largest and most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in the United States, recognized Durst as an industry leader with four (4) 2020 Product of the Year awards.
Köstlin Prepress Services of Ditzingen, near Stuttgart in south-west Germany, recently added Miraclon’s KODAK FLEXCEL NX Ultra Solution to their range of flexo platemaking technologies for high quality packaging printing. While Köstlin offers a broad...
The winners of the Sustainability Awards 2020 have been unveiled in a digital event. This year’s overall winner was the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research with their bioORMOCER® biodegradable functional barrier coatings, which also won...
PPC Flexible Packaging is proud to announce the commissioning of their newest cleanroom packaging production facility located within their Payson, Utah manufacturing plant. This investment marks PPC’s third major capital project to support its growing...
Sales teams have been adapting to the recent crisis, exploring new ways of connecting with and serving customers and building on the best practices of the recent past. In the process, companies are discovering improved...
The COVID-19 crisis has shifted consumer habits, with more consumers looking for safety, as well as convenience, all of which is changing the way flexible packaging companies and suppliers are viewing the future. In a...
BW Flexible Systems’ design and engineering teams have introduced TruFORM, the next generation of forming set technology for the flexible packaging market. Re-engineered from the ground up, TruFORM is both lighter and more adept at...
Koenig & Bauer has named Daniel Vilchez as its area sales director for both North America and Latin America. In this new role, Vilchez will be responsible for sales and business development to ensure the...
Spartech, a leading manufacturer of engineered thermoplastics and custom packaging solutions, announced that John Inks has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He previously served as Chief Operating Officer for Spartech. “As Chief Operating...
It can be hard to measure the return on time and money invested in social media. But the feedback was swift after C-P Flexible Packaging in York, Pennsylvania, posted an article on LinkedIn about its...
A team of researchers from the U.K., China, and Saudi Arabia has developed a process for converting plastic waste into hydrogen gas and carbon nanotubes. In their paper published in the journal Nature Catalysis, the...
Over the last several months, Foster Printing has witnessed continued high growth especially in its food packaging niche as the current pandemic requires this essential need and is prompting robust demand. A new Rapida 164...
An enormous 20% of all food produced in the European Union ends up either in landfill sites or as animal feed. It's an expensive waste of a potential resource that costs the economy €140 billion...
The circular economy holds out the hope of living within the planet’s resources. Turning aspiration into action is another matter. A little over a year ago, schoolchildren across the globe embarked on huge strikes over...
Maxcess, the global leader in innovative products and services for integrated web handling applications, announced the opening of a new global headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, as well as the appointment of Alexander Haid to...
Across processing and packaging operations, manufacturers are investing time, resources and new design approaches to leverage digital technologies in their operations. The goal: Transform the efficiency, productivity and versatility of those systems to help companies...