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Xaar’s new online community is providing 24/7 product and technical information, making it even easier for customers to work with its leading inkjet printhead technology. Since its launch in March, the portal has already become an…

The US subsidiary of Osaka-based Maruho - a leading Japanese dermatology pharmaceutical company with subsidiaries in Europe and the US with global sales exceeding $600m - will showcase its increasingly popular Eagle blister thermoformer at…

Esko is proud to have hosted the Flexible Packaging Honours Class, an initiative of the Graphical and Digital Media department of the Artevelde University College Ghent. Intended for ambitious and talented students at the top of…

Historically, manufacturing has been seen as male dominated, with few women choosing to follow a career within the industry. Even today, women only make up 26 per cent of the workforce within this sector. Kate Hulley is representative of…

Essentra, one of the leading global suppliers of specialised secondary health and personal care packaging, is delighted to have won the Editor’s Choice Award at the Asian Manufacturing Awards 2017. The industry acclaimed Asian…

Following on from a year packed full of successful exhibitions and open houses, Friedheim International will be exhibiting at IPEX 2017 with one of the largest stands at the show and boasting advanced print finishing equipment. At IPEX…

With the packaging industry facing increasingly sophisticated consumption trends that present various challenges to the production and distribution of goods, Gebo Cermex is responding to this with the introduction of AQFlex - a product…

There will be steady increases in demand for liquid paperboard materials across the next five years according to the latest in-depth industry study from Smithers Pira. Exclusive data published in The Future of Liquid Paperboard to 2022…

A guidance document, ‘The assessment and classification of waste packaging’, developed by trade associations representing companies that use packaging operating in the chemicals supply chain has been developed. The Environment Agency,…

At drinktec 2017, Graphic Packaging International (GPI) will demonstrate possibilities in machinery and packaging solutions that address both current and evolving consumer buying habits that are shaping the global beverage industry.…