Flint Group is pleased to offer its VertixCode (flexographic) and MatrixCode (gravure) ink technologies for flexible packaging in PU-based (NC-free) chemistries, as well as traditional Nitrocellulose-based formulations.
Last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced a tightening of his economic policy. Imports from the European Union will be subject to surcharges of 20 percent. Economists expect the drastic tariffs to have significant consequences for the USA, Germany and Europe.
The SPC is Antalis state-of-the-art facility based in the Midlands that offers customers packaging demonstrations, bespoke design services, and testing facilities, for example, to optimise packaging material usage without compromising structural integrity.
At Billerud we embed sustainability in everything we do and when developing new high performing packaging materials, we know we have a joint interest with converters and brand owners to replace plastics with fossil-free materials.
The customer, a leading clothes retailer with shops in countries around the world, was seeking a blue pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) material that it could use to cut out letters and various designs to apply to storefront windows.
AVT enjoyed a very successful debut as a standalone business at the ICE Europe exhibition in Germany, showcasing how its 100% print inspection and workflow solutions deliver printing and converting accuracy and consistency for packaging and labels converters and printers.
Without coordinated, automated control of cooking and refining, mill operators need to be conservative, using department targets that are suboptimal. This avoids major disturbances but can generate waste, like excessive wood consumption due to low digester yield.
