USA: Konica Minolta Business Solutions, USA (Konica Minolta) has renewed its joint agreement with strategic partner Mark Andy, which started in 2016. The partnership has since delivered a new family of digital label presses that enable customers to produce high quality, cost effective, digital solutions to the market. “Konica Minolta is honoured to partner with …
Heidelberg’s Packaging Days event in Wiesloch- Walldorf site elicits strong interest from customers in packaging solutions
Germany: Heidelberg hosted its Packaging Days at the Wiesloch-Walldorf site in May, which saw over 350 participants from all over the world visit the Print Media Center Packaging on two days. The theme “Together on Track to Success” resonated the strong interest the participants showed in Heidelberg’s integrated solutions and got comprehensive answers to the …
Comexi’s LCA project receives 2019 FTA Award for Sustainability
Spain: Comexi, a flexible packaging equipment specialist, has received a 2019 FTA Sustainability Excellence Award in the Innovations in Sustainability category for its Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of its Comexi F2 MC flexographic press. Organized by FTA (Flexographic Technical Association), the 2019 FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards were presented on May 5th at the Hilton …
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20 years of Kodak Prinergy
USA: Kodak celebrated 20 years of Kodak Prinergy workflow with over 150 printers, industry partners and media from around the world at the 2019 GUA Conference hosted in New Orleans to mark the occasion. The two-day forum celebrated twenty years of collaboration between print service providers and Kodak that has transformed the way prepress departments …
Swiss log: the automation products company is providing logistic solutions in the most chaotic of the market places
Automation in logistics is estimated to be Euro 313-million in the Middle East. The leaders in retail, commerce and FMCG are driving the growth for Swisslog, Alain Kaddoum, general manager of Swisslog Middle East tells Benjamin Daniel Switzerland-based Swisslog has landed. Literally. After commissioning an automation project at Mai Dubai, the company has recently implemented …
How KHS is developing new technologies within the Industry 4.0 to fill the void across the production process
Rapid fluctuation and high risk create challenging conditions for management of the beverage industry, which is subject to extremely dynamic cycles of change. KHS has trained its focus on the industry with new developments It’s a world of VUCA, which defines a world which is being increasingly characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The …
Indian-based Pragati are the badshahs of commercial, labels and packaging
In a freewheeling chat with Benjamin Daniel, Pragati Group’s director Harsha Paruchuri shares the receipe of success PMEA: Being a renowned commercial printer in Asia, what influenced or prompted Pragati to enter into the world of packaging print? Harsha Paruchuri (HP): In the year 2000, we were looking at how internet would change things and …
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Insoft hosts a print software conclave to introduce its layout planning software App in the Middle East region
Insoft Automation India, the software specialist introduced an IMP App for the Middle East market with a knowledge sharing event held recently. IMP is a layout planning software. Among many contributions to printing along with invention of printing press that revolutionised book production, was in planning exact size and sequence of pages for Gutenberg’s Bible. …
How IGB’s ideas coupled Bobst converting technologies are helping it to become a forerunner in pharma packaging
Industrie Grafiche Bressan (IGB)’s Oscar della Stampa as the Best Technology Innovator in 2018 is a testimony of the Italian company’s capabilities to produce quality production as well as innovate, Benjamin Daniel finds out Switzerland : Italy’s Industrie Grafiche Bressan (IGB) is a little bit different company, different from most package manufacturers. It innovates as well …
Sidel’s Cermex WB46 wrap-around case packer rises to Unilever’s skin cream “specific” end-of-line challenges
Unilever is an ambitious customer, and Sidel had to press its entire set of competence to meet the requirement of producing a perfect end-of-line solution for Unilever’s round pots of skin cream product, Benjamin Daniel finds out Dubai : Sidel has commissioned a new end-of-line solutions, which includes one piece of the company’s spearhead equipment, the …