The international press conference discussed the new corporate structure, the layout based on target markets, the international promotion activities and The Innovation Alliance.
Today at Interpack, Karlville announced commercial availability of the HP Indigo Pack Ready Laminator for HP Indigo digital presses. Karlville is licensed as a manufacturer and supplier of the HP-patented laminator technology that will help reduce complexity for producing digital flexible packaging.
Film reel changeovers without machine stops: thanks to the newly developed film storage facility from the Advanced series KHS now enables automatic changeovers from one reel to the next on its packaging machinery. It is thus no longer necessary to stop the machine or throttle the production speed. Inspiration for the system has been taken from the automatic reel changers used in the printing industry, for instance.
Pet food flexible packaging print samples, produced by Flint Group in cooperation with Soma engineering and Marvaco Oy, highlight an evolution in quality for flexo printing.
When approaching sustainability, the focus of most food and beverage companies is on reducing environmental footprints. How can they go beyond incremental reductions and create positive impacts? How can the social impacts of foods be improved? How can customer value be augmented by sustainable production methods? Such questions will be addressed in the upcoming Sustainable Foods Summit (www.sustainablefoodssummit.com). Hosted in Amsterdam on 1-2nd June, the European edition will hone in on social & customer impacts, sustainable ingredients, and marketing best-practices.
Trelleborg is joining forces with sector specialist manufacturers INK Maloberti and PCO Printing Chemicals, part of the Printgraph Group, at Metpack 2017, 2 – 6 May, Essen, Germany. In addition to offering a complete range of offset blanket solutions, inks and chemicals for metal decorating applications, the three companies will launch several products at the event for the international metal packaging industry.
LasX Industries, Inc., an industry leader in high performance, production class laser converting systems and services, is set to present its innovative packaging solutions during Interpack 4-10 May, 2017 in Düsseldorf. Featured on the LasX stand in hall 8b C96 will be a variety of laser cutting, scoring, and perforating processes powered by patented LaserSharp digital converting technology, in addition to showing new packaging products for the flexible packaging and folding carton industries.
