In August this year, Sunrise located in St. Petersburg, Russia installed their third MPS flexo printing press: a 9-colour EFA 430. To increase production capacity and reduce lead times, it will run in tandem with one of two previously installed MPS flexo presses of a similar configuration.
Throughout much of 2020 and 2021, label and packaging converters alike have experienced tremendous demand for both their products and for shorter turnaround times from customers needing to keep grocery store shelves filled.
Since its inception in 1984, Barthel Group has continued to expand and develop its business, which in more recent times has seen the company embark on a acquisition trail. One of the newest Group members is ATB-Systemetiketten based in Herne in the industrial Ruhr area of Germany.
The project is part of the R-Cycle initiative, a cross industry consortium working on developing a globally applicable tracing standard to automatically record and store on a common data platform recycling-relevant information along the flexible packaging production value chain.
Cleveland Menu of Cleveland, Ohio has been a leading supplier to the national hospitality & restaurant industry for almost 100 years. A pioneer in its field, the company started printing menus on synthetic materials in 1980 with a single-color Heidelberg KORD.
With many print businesses taking a fresh look at market opportunities, reevaluating their strategies and redesigning their long-term roadmaps, could creative new coatings be the key to giving traditional technologies like screen printing a new lease of life – and giving printers a new set of tools to carve themselves out amongst competitors?
Digitalization, automation, connectivity, and sustainability were among the hot topics of conversation at the BOBST stand at PROPAK, which is the largest exhibition for the packaging, plastics, print, food-processing and labelling industries in West Africa.
