Packaging Heroes come to the fore as industry responds to coronavirus crisis

Jan De Roeck, EskoThese are the strangest of times, said Jan De Roeck, Esko Marketing Director, Industry Relations and Strategy. With the continuation of the global food, hygiene and pharmaceutical packaging supply chains being so crucial to society, it has been heartening to see the way packaging sectors have sought to not only meet increased consumer requirements but also go above and beyond in their response to the crisis.

Markzware Announces IDMarkz Update

Markzware, software developer for the printing, publishing and graphic design industries, announces the latest update of IDMarkz. This new version (v1.5.7) has the added ability to export Adobe InDesign document stories as TXT, RTF, or HTML, and can also convert InDesign to IDML, without previewing.

Huhtamäki decreases plate production time significantly thanks to Flint Group

Huhtamäki is a global food-packaging supplier and celebrates 100 years of history in 2020. With a strong Nordic heritage, they operate in 35 countries and 81 sites around the world. Over 18,600 employees are working to deliver next generation smart-packaging. With its head quar-ter in Espoo, Finland, Huhtamäki is a public company listed in Helsinki stock exchange.

Friday 08. May 2020

Benedict Press improves sustainability with innovative Kodak products

Münsterschwarzach Abbey in Schwarzach, near Würzburg (Germany), was founded as a nunnery in the year 780. Re-acquired by the Missionary Benedictines in 1913, it is today home to around 100 monks. In keeping with the monastic rules, the abbey maintains a number of businesses and workshops providing work not only for monks but also for some 300 secular employees. Among the economically strongest of these businesses is Benedict Press: with 25 people on the payroll, the printer specializes in end-to-end production of high quality books (including coffee-table books), art catalogs, calendars, posters and a whole series of other print products.

PDF Association acts as ANSI-accredited US Technical Advisory Group for ISO 171 SC 2

The American subsidiary of the PDF Association has been authorized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to act as administrator of the Technical Advisory Group for the USA. The Technical Advisory Group belongs to the ISO Technical Committee (TC) 171, Subcommittee (SC) 2, which focuses on PDF format, PDF variants, including PDFA and PDFUA, and related file formats. The PDF Association thus replaces the 3D PDF Consortium, which held this function from 2017 to 2020.