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.
After more than 36 years at Siegwerk, Ralf Hildenbrand, President Americas and member of the Group Executive Committee, has decided to retire effective July 1, 2025. He will be succeeded by Christopher van Laack.
The partnership between MA Print Products (MAPP) and Wink has created strategic opportunities for converters in the UK and Ireland to fully capitalise on the benefits of flexible die-cutting for narrow web applications.
