Author: PackagingMEA

Express Printing Services has invested in an automated laser die-making solution as well as a Masterwork (MK) die cutter and folder-gluer.

Sabic has opened the Sabic Plastics Application Development Center (SPADC), a 42,000sqm research facility at the Riyadh Techno Valley in King Saud University (KSU).

Landa’s digital front end (DFE) in its Nanographic Printing solution will be based on EFI Fiery digital front end technology under a partnership agreement between the two firms.

Grafiche Esposti, a printer and photolithographer based in Mantua, has invested in Kodak Sonora process-free plates in a format of up to 2 square metres for display stands.

ThermoFlexX is now offering Hybrid Software flexo pre-press solutions including Cloudflow, a ‘workspace’ concept for web-enabled production environments, and PACKZ, an editing application for packaging and labels.

Dubai is poised to issue a new ruling on the use in packaging of bisphenol A, which some studies link to an increased risk of prostrate cancer.

Uteco Group has delivered an 8-colour central impression (CI) Onyx 812 flexographic printing press to Omar Packaging Industries, one of 19 companies within Tanzania’s leading Dar es Salaam-based Bakhresa Group.

Oman Plast 2014 on 11-13 February hopes to gain from the Middle East’s soaring investment in plastics and petrochemical production.

tna has picked Mukul Shukla as its general manager for the Middle East.

A proposal from the UAE’s Health Ministry may bring the UAE into a global trend towards plain cigarette pack designs, which it would enforce from 2016.