Leading static control specialist Fraser Anti-Static Techniques has followed the successful launch of the world’s shortest 24V DC anti-static bar with an even smaller close-range ionising tool. At just 47mm in operational length, the 3024 Ultra-Compact 24V DC static eliminator can also be combined with a fixed nozzle for ionised air cleaning, as well as forming an ionised airgun. The […]

Packaging exists to make what would otherwise be impossible possible. It contains and protects the product and enables a food, beverage or a flat screen television to be shipped long distances, often to different countries, then to a distribution centre and to the retailer where its displayed and sold. By Tom Kerchiss – RK Print Coat Instruments Containment and protection […]

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, has today published its sustainability targets for 2030. One of the company’s targets is to achieve fossil free mills by 2030 with zero fossil CO2 emissions.  This ambitious target includes both emissions from the company’s own energy production (scope 1) as well as purchased energy (scope 2). Currently, 82% of the energy used at […]

By Tom Kerchiss – RK Print Coat Instruments Home make over TV programs; glossy magazines showcasing celebrities, their LA homes and their lifestyles may make us envious; they may cause us to pause, look around and consider how we could make decorative changes. Next there may be the visit out to kitchen showrooms, furniture and the home improvement store, which […]

“Anyone who shops regularly online will be familiar with receiving a box that is several times larger than the item it contains, with void-fill taking up the excess space. It’s distressing.” Surveys show that for half of consumers, excessive packaging is one of the most annoying things about online shopping. Research conducted by a leading delivery management company in March […]

Adem Kulauzovic, director of Coding Automation, Domino, explains how integrated and automated coding and marking reduces costly product recalls Two years ago, almost half of all product recalls in the US food industry were caused by undeclared allergens or labelling errors that typically manifest themselves in inaccurate coding. Today, despite major advances in coding automation, the dial has barely shifted; […]

The Better with Less – Design Challenge arranged for the first time in 2017–2018 was an impressive success, with over 300 packaging designs submitted to the competition. This year’s Design Challenge is approaching, and the world-class jury of renowned packaging design experts has now been announced. Last year, Metsä Board’s Better with Less – Design Challenge inspired students and professional […]

C&T Channel Matrix has added new sizes to its steel cutting plate portfolio. C&T Channel Matrix, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of creasing matrix, has a wide stock range of steel cutting plates, stripping pins, pin holders, clamps and frames. C&T is now able to offer die makers, box makers and print finishers an extended range of stock and customised […]

Packaging Innovations 2019 will return to Olympia for its 10th edition on 11 & 12 September, hosted alongside Luxury Packaging London. As the capital’s most exclusive packaging event it will bring the industry together in a festival of cutting-edge, branded and bespoke packaging, when it welcomes over 180 industry specialists to what is set to be its biggest show to […]

With the UK print industry continuing to go through a sustained period of rapid structural change—characterised by both growth and consolidation in different sectors—the IPIA is reporting that 2019 is seeing a growing trend of strong membership engagement across its initiatives and events. “The signs are very good for the print industry in the UK. Despite the political backdrop over […]