Mehner & Rust Etiketten GmbH (MRE), based in Lichtentanne, a small town between Plauen and Zwickau in Saxony, can trace its roots back to the period immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when the Communist East Germany suddenly emerged into the capitalist western world. Founded and still owned and managed by Heiko Mehner and Klaus-Dieter Rust, […]

Danish manufacturer Flexo Wash will be exhibiting a range of cleaning technology from its comprehensive portfolio at Labelexpo in Brussels including a generation of Anilox Cleaners with the focus on easier handling, improved technology and sustainable solutions. The NXT generation and LASER units will lead Flexo Wash’s innovation into the 2020’s, where the company will focus increasingly on easy handling and sustainability, with the […]

One of Colombia’s leading manufacturing suppliers of flexible packaging, Flex Pack SAS, has installed Flexo Wash technology at its plant in Bogota to help improve the quality of work being produced on its two flexo printing presses. Founded in 2001 and still owned and managed by Carlos Alberto González and his wife Maribel Jácome, the company is vertically integrated offering […]

One of Colombia’s leading manufacturing suppliers of flexible packaging, Flex Pack SAS, has installed Flexo Wash technology at its plant in Bogota to help improve the quality of work being produced on its two flexo printing presses. Founded in 2001 and still owned and managed by Carlos Alberto González and his wife Maribel Jácome, the company is vertically integrated offering […]

Mondi plunged head first into that market via its July 2016 acquisition of Turkish flexible packaging manufacturer Kalenobel, with that firm’s Istanbul headquarters and pair of production facilities in the northern Turkish city of Kirklareli. Key factors such as seasonality, varied consumer behaviour, and novel production technology tend to make the ice cream packaging business a different animal from other […]

Heat seal pre-cut lids manufacturer Chadwicks of Bury (part of the Clondalkin Group) has produced a set of eye-catching lids for a new range of gin and vodka infused ice cocktails from frozen cocktail brand, LIC.

Following Dantex’s success in the UV digital label press market, they look forward to promoting their digital capability further at Labelexpo Americas 25-27 September, held at the Donald E Stephens Convention Centre, Chicago  The popular PicoColour UV Digital Label Press will be running on booth for the duration of the event – versatile and with a small footprint, this printing […]

The two companies join forces with a co-sponsored stand Mark Andy Print Products and DuPont Advanced Printing will be together on Stand 749 at Labelexpo Americas 2018. This co-sponsored booth is the first industry-wide event since Mark Andy Print Products was named the exclusive distributor of DuPont Cyrel flexographic platemaking systems in the United States. Stand 749 will focus on […]

Sustainability is not a term of the future, but of the present. It is here to stay, to be part of industry, of society, and of the new generations that are waiting their turn, and we must all be attentive to understanding in what way we can, and should, be part of the process of change  Any new production system […]

Kalas Packaging, the Boston, UK-based packaging converter, is introducing an online personalised gift bag and bottle box service for consumers, with its recently installed digital folding carton printing line, featuring an HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press integrated with a TRESU iCoat 30000 flexo coater On the new one-stop web-to-print service, Vanilla Reindeer, consumers may order premium-quality bottle cartons and rope-handled […]