After a successful launch in 2018, the European Paper Bag Day enters the second round on 18 October 2019 with many different activities and celebrations throughout Europe. The annual action day was initiated by the platform “The Paper Bag,” the association of Europe’s leading kraft paper manufacturers and paper bag producers, to celebrate paper carrier bags as sustainable and functional […]

Mal-Pol boosts productivity on Gallus RCS 330 with Martin Automatic One of Poland’s leading label converters, Mal-Pol, based in Olesin near Warsaw, has fitted Martin Automatic technology to its Gallus RCS 330 press. The ten-colour UV-flexo press, which also has two screen print units and cold foil and varnish capability, was installed in 2016 to produce top-of-the-range labels from a […]

Ellco Etikett started of 2018 by becoming the only label printing company in Norway to be certified by the strict ISO standards in both quality and environmental management The project started off early in 2017. Ellco Etikett had recently lost a large tender by an old customer. This partly due to the lack of a quality certification. That really triggered […]

Europe’s leading manufacturer and distributor of household disposable products, CeDo, has confirmed its commitment to quality with a significant investment in Corona treatment technology from the market-leading Danish company, Vetaphone. Renowned for its range of refuse sacks and bio bags, food, freezer and sandwich bags as well as aluminium foils and cling films, CeDo now has a presence in most […]

DS Smith has announced its involvement in a trial to research the highly-topical issue of coffee cup recycling. The project, which will commence in January 2018, will be run on behalf of the Paper Cup Recycling and Recovery Group (PCRRG). An analysis of the feasibility of recycling used coffee cups will be undertaken at DS Smith’s Kemsley Paper Mill in […]

Codimarc, based in Oliveira Sao Mateus, Portugal is about to take its first step into digital colour label printing when it takes delivery of a Domino N610i inkjet label press in early December. Founded in 1997, Codimarc, as well as being a specialist label printer, is a value-added facilitator and supplier of integrated label printing solutions combining hardware, software and […]

Toyo Ink SC Holdings, the parent company of the Toyo Ink Group of companies, recently announced that its subsidiary company Toyo Printing Inks, a manufacturer of inks and coatings in Turkey, has decided to purchase approximately 62,000sq metres of land for the future expansion of its operations in the Manisa Province in western Turkey. The new plot is located in […]

At the beginning of November, W&H’s new gravure printing press, Dynastar, was awarded with the Packaging Gravure Award 2017 by the European Rotogravure Association (ERA) in the Innovation category. The ERA Award is given out every two years, commending quality and achievement in the rotogravure print market. The announcement took place during the Packaging and Decorative Conference in Barcelona. The […]

C&T Channel Matrix, one of the leading manufacturers of creasing matrix, has extended its wide range of rubber profile products with the addition of open cell sheet rubber and EPDM profiles and sheets. Both new products are targeted at die makers and will complement C&T Matrix’s range of extruded profile rubbers for use in both solid board and corrugated applications. […]

As the packaging and design industries await the latest announcements from the European Commission on their future strategy for plastics, Pro Carton has called for the EU to encourage the use of more sustainable packaging materials wherever possible as a replacement for plastic. Tony Hitchin, general manager, Pro Carton — the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers — shared […]