Dubai has launched a 4.5 million sqm ‘food park’ project aimed at boosting the emirate’s role in food and foodstuff re-exports.
BOBST and Radex announce launch of digital printing competence center
Leading packaging and label equipment manufacturers, BOBST and Radex – a DOD inkjet digital printing startup company owned by multiple stakeholders today announced the launch of Mouvent, a joint venture that will become the digital printing competence center and solutions provider of BOBST. Mouvent, which is comprised of 80 employees in Switzerland, will focus on …
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Flint Group launches new generation UV LED Sheetfed Process Ink
Flint Group today announced the global launch of its latest version UV LED process inks, XCURA EVO. ““EVO” is short for evolutionary,” explains Trevor Amps, Global Product Management Director for Energy Curing inks. “This signals a step change from our world renowned XCURA formulations which, for the past four years, have served our customers very …
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Deluxe Packages invests in a fully equipped KBA Rapida 106
Deluxe Packages, Pakistan has bought a seven-colour Rapida 106 in a double-coater configuration making it the longest sheetfed offset press installed in the 60‑year history of the company, which supplies packaging for the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and confectionery branches, as well as POS displays. The press will enter production in autumn. Rehan Shafi Siddiqui and Zeeshan …
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AVT to merge into Danaher platform
AVT will be offered alongside X-Rite and Esko to simplify value chains Europe Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), a leader in automatic print inspection, process control, quality assurance, and colour control for printing applications has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Pelican Merger Holdings after which it will be acquired by Danaher Corporation’s Product Identification …
KEEPING IT REAL
Brands cannot afford to overlook the reputational and financial risks from fake products, explain regional experts providing countermeasures Package printing stands on the front line of the fight against counterfeiting. By using new technologies printers are striving to raise the bar so high that counterfeiters cannot make money. Digital printing technologies enable converters to incorporate …
Smiles brighten outlook for Lay’s
Campaign uses packaging to boost sales and brand image in Pakistan Dubai BBDO Pakistan won a place among the prize winners at the recent Lynx festival in Dubai for the advertising sector with a campaign for Lay’s in Pakistan that used redesigned crisp packets to enhance the company’s image and sales figures. The ‘Pass a …
Pouch push
Huhtamaki’s 3D pouches are taking off in the Gulf Dubai Huhtamaki Middle East is winning over regional customers with 3D flat-bottomed pouches, said Dharmesh Zavery, vice president for sales and business development. “Here in the Gulf region, consumers like the way this new technology has presented itself on the store shelf and also like how …
Innovia debuts clear IML film
RayoForm meets trend towards clear containers UK Innovia Films has launched Rayo- Form ICU, which it describes as offering brand managers with a unprecedented clarity for meeting a market trend towards clear containers. The new in-mould label (IML) film is produced using Innovia’s bubble process, making it “the clear leader to showcase brands and their …
Klockner Pentaplast starts Thai lines
Medical device and pharma packaging grades developed for region Germany Klöckner Pentaplast has announced is launching production of several new medical device and pharmaceutical packaging grades in Thailand for the Asian market. Local manufacturing of FDA-grade Pentapharm mono PVC, Pentapharm alfoil PVdC-coated PVC and Pentaform medical thermoforming grade APET and PVC began in the first …