“We’re a growing business and we’ve been doing so even through the difficult economic conditions of the past few years,” says Nick Bramfitt, Operations Director of Kentmere Packaging. “In fact, over the past six years we have almost doubled turnover, which we’ve achieved by continuously investing in people and in plant.”
Winkler+Duennebier (W+D) from Neuwied/Rhine celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. Its core business revolves around machines and systems that produce and process envelopes and mailing solutions. Machines that process hygiene products are its second mainstay. One seventh of its approximately 350 employees work in the areas of research, development and construction. The company has sites in the U.S.A., China, Malaysia and the United Kingdom. In this interview, Managing Director Frank Eichhorn explains what W+D’s strategy is for asserting itself in a declining market overall.
BOBST (stand G7) is to present, at its information booth at Gulf Print & Pack 2015, its newest flexo-folder-gluer FFG 8.20 DISCOVERY, the most efficient solution for producing regular slotted containers, up to 18,000 boxes/hour.
Tech-ni-Fold (stand F8) will be launching for the first time in the Middle East three unique creasing and perforating machines that speed up the process of finishing digital print.
PRATI will be exhibiting at Gulf Print & Pack 2015 alongside its local agent Printech Middle East (stand C3) and will be demonstrating a SATURN MIDI the efficient and fast die-cutting finishing line.
PINK, the brand new creasing matrix from C&T Matrix, was launched in 2014. Subsequent demand for the product is at an all-time high, with new global customers embracing the unrivalled durability characteristics of this innovative creasing matrix.
Realizing their company was on pace for a record year and projecting a fast start for the first quarter of 2015, Tom Eubanks and Ted Varberg did what smart businessmen do. Figuring the best way to improve back-end operations at American Converting in Lincolnton, North Carolina was to increase productivity, Tom placed a call to Colter & Peterson. It led to him exchanging his old 110″ Lawson for a reconditioned one the same size, and with the newest electronics. The company has since exceeded their first quarter projections.
