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At the Xeikon Café North America, which took place on October 17 and 18, in Chicago, Xeikon unveiled a number of initiatives and new hires as part of the ongoing expansion of its North American organisation. The opening of the event…

The Robatech AG product range is always growing to include new products, features and options. EasyFix: the easy way to install heated hoses. One of the most compact hose mounts on the market, the EasyFix from Robatech is a hose for…

Wet wipes are one of the most popular cleaning products in the world, but the adhesives on wet wipe packages often fail, leaving the remaining wipes to dry out. “When an adhesive selected for household wipes can’t supply the technical…

Packaging Films Pvt  Ltd. (I PAK) in Lahore, Northern Pakistan are now running two of Kampf’s slitters: A Unislit II 630 slitter for metallised film and Kamf’s primary slitter, a Universal 89/12 BOPP. I PAK, a manufacturing company,…

Asahi Photoproducts, a specialist in flexographic photopolymer plate development, recently announced that it will be attending Eurasia Packaging 2017, October 25-28, Istanbul, Turkey. At the show, the company will be located in Hall 9 at…

Dow Performance Silicones, a global business unit of DowDuPont Materials Sciences division, will deliver a technical talk on its new Dow Corning HMB-6301 Masterbatch — a slip additive for bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film — at…

Shane Dewar has been appointed as director for Domino Digital Printing Solutions Europe with responsibility for driving sales of the company’s inkjet printing equipment and managing support services across the EMEA region. He moves into…

Leicester-based flexible packaging manufacturer, CPS, which recently merged with Mercury Packaging, is now offering high strength polythene grip seal bags to support the on-going growth of its security and mailing division. Available…

At InPrint 2017, November 14-16, Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich, Germany, GEW will display its range of arc lamp and LED UV curing systems for printing and coating applications — available in widths from 10cm up to 2.5m from the use of a…

Speciality packaging solutions provider, Parkside, is now achieving ultra high definition print quality due to new screening technology developed by Hamillroad Software, specialists in prepress solutions for the printing industry. As a…