The company is facing an extraordinarily turbulent set of supply chain conditions, exacerbated by the global pandemic. Costs are increasing and supply is tightening across almost all procurement categories: multiple petrochemical derivatives such as resins & solvents; pigments, and freight, are three of the most volatile areas.
Process-automation experts Baldwin Technology Company Inc. and BW Papersystems collaborate to offer a three-part webinar to discuss how to print offset more efficiently. The one-hour live educational session is offered twice on March 11, and registration is free: March 11 at 5 a.m. EST (US) 11 a.m. CET (Europe) and March 11 at 11 a.m. EST (US) 5 p.m. CET (Europe).
Toyo Printing Inks, Inc., a member of the Japan-based Toyo Ink Group, one of the worlds largest ink manufacturers, recently brought to market the LP-9000 Toyo Life Premium Food LOLM, a new series of sheetfed offset inks with low odour and low migration characteristics.
Now the international printing ink specialist has taken a further step towards improving the environmental balance of its products: the UV ink series for sheetfed and web offset printing as well as for continuous printing achieved very good results in deinking tests and thus received deinking certificates.
Due to the substantial and continuous cost increases for raw materials especially pulp by approx. 30 %, DREWSEN SPEZIALPAPIERE will be increasing their prices significantly for uncoated woodfree papers for deliveries from April 1st 2021 onwards.
The new Adestor PET Laser Matt White facestock provides excellent performance for outdoor labelling and durable applications (high resistance to water, chemicals and fluctuating temperatures). This new product is HP Indigo certified and ideal for use with variable data printing technologies.
Zeller+Gmelin is reorganising its business in China. The Eislingen-based company is planning a new manufacturing site with its own production, development and sales team for lubricants and chemical products in 2021.
