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Germany: Reifenhäuser Group has acquired Plamex Maschinenbau, which will see the company expand its flexible film production portfolio. Plamex specialises in blown film lines and extrusion components. Its core competencies are blown film lines for water-cooled and biaxially oriented films for the medical and food packaging industry. The company will continue its operations under the name Reifenhäuser …

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Germany: The K 2019 show is firmly set to repeat the vastly successful performance of K 2016. The show is booked out from 16 to 23 October 2019, and the focus of activities this time being – innovative materials and technologies, digitalisation and circular economy. Werner M. Dornscheidt, CEO and president of Messe Düsseldorf, and …

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MOROCCO: Toyo Ink SC Holdings, the parent company of the Toyo Ink Group of Japan, today announced plans to open a new sales subsidiary in Casablanca, Morocco, in preparation for a full-scale business launch into the African continent. Eyeing the future economic progress of Africa, the company will set up its very first office on …

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KSA: In 2017, Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO) brought in new regulations for plastic packaging, which came into effect from December 2017, like the Phase I where certain permit- ted PP and PE products could be produced/imported into Saudi. The Phase-2 implemented in August 2018 included a few more items in …

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Celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary, CEO of Borouge Pte Ltd, Wim Roels shares his thoughts with Packaging MEA editor Ben Daniel on the company’s impressive journey of operational excellence and remarkable growth and innovation. With Anteo, a new family of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) packaging grades, Wim highlighted the company’s drive to bring to …

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USA: McDonald’s Corporation has celebrated International Women’s Day with the launch of its new strategy – Better Together: Gender Balance & Diversity. By 2023, the company aims to improve the representation of women at all levels of McDonald’s, achieve gender equality in career advancement, and champion the impact of women on the business. In addition, …

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Denmark: Nilpeter will be celebrating its 100 years of existence in style. On 1 May 2019, its anniversary day, the company will mark the day for a year-long celebration with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers at its headquarters in Slagelse, Denmark. Founded by two old friends in 1919, Nilpeter started out servicing newspaper printing machines …

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Sweden: Flint Group Narrow Web EMEA has introduced the Vivo colour solution for the narrow-web label and packaging printers. The web-based system, Flint, said, is a first-of-its-kind ink colour formulation search engine and support service, designed to increase the converter’s colour accuracy, press uptime and reduce substrate and ink waste. “Today customers across seven countries …

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Switzerland: Bobst has announced that its open house in the first week of April will world premiere solutions, one which, the company said, is an end-to- end solutions and the other which will revolutionise the standards and the dynamics of the labels and packaging industry. Though the company did not specify what the machinery is, …

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Colour management standards and process controls have helped meeting client expectations in colour reproduction. How can we accurately predict, prepare and communicate expected results? David Zwang, print Land packaging consultant, New York finds out. Labels and Packaging: Predicting and achieving consistent color across disparate press platforms and media By: David Zwang Abstract:
 Color management standards and …

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