Robust new design delivers added safety, convenience and productivity
Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) today announced that it has signed a Definitive Purchase Agreement to acquire 100% of the Meurer Group located in Furstenau Germany. Meurer is a well-known supplier of secondary packaging equipment to the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) markets worldwide.
Europe’s supply chain participants in the self-adhesive label industry by Kurt Walker, FINAT President
With the shrink sleeve market recording annual growth of between 6 and 8 percent, Hammer Packaging, located in the city of Rochester in New York State, USA, invested in a brand-new VSOP web printing press from Muller Martini with nine printing units and an additional flexo unit.
Label Summit Indonesia 2013 gathered a unique audience of 255 delegates, comprising senior figures from the South East Asian and Australasian label and package printing industry, including converters, brand owners and designers. The inaugural conference and table-top exhibition, held in Bali during 29-30 May, provided an exclusive insight into the growth opportunities the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region offers.
When Al Mawrid, the printing and converting company based in Sharjah, UAE, decided to invest in a Gallus ICS 670 press to manufacture folding cartons, it bucked a trend that previously had seen the company produce all of this type of work on a bank of Heidelberg sheet fed offset presses. But significantly, it began to expand the company’s printed packaging offering to new market sectors. Nick Coombes visited the Thomsun Group company to find out what lay behind this pioneering decision.
Association’s stand an invaluable resource for the labeling industry
