VERPACKEN-AKTUELL

System for coated and uncoated surfaces

UPM Spe­cial­ty Pa­pers’ heat-sealable bar­ri­er pa­pers have achieved ex­cel­lent re­sults in tests car­ried out with Koenig & Bauer's next gen­er­a­tion of inkjet dig­i­tal print­ing tech­nol­o­gy. With the abil­i­ty to change de­signs sim­ply by up­dat­ing a file, dig­i­tal print­ing opens new pos­si­bil­i­ties for brand own­ers and con­vert­ers – from ac­cel­er­at­ing time ...

Reuse targets rely primarily on fossil-based resources and disregard renewable materials

FE­F­CO sup­ports the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion’s in­ten­tion “to re­duce the neg­a­tive en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pacts of pack­ag­ing and pack­ag­ing waste while im­prov­ing the func­tion­ing of the in­ter­nal mar­ket” via the Pack­ag­ing and Pack­ag­ing Waste Reg­u­la­tion. The pro­posed leg­is­la­tion should also be aligned with the Cir­cu­lar Econ­o­my Ac­tion Plan’s ob­jec­tive “to en­sure that pack­ag­ing ...

Dur­ing the Flex­og­ra­phy Con­gress, on Thurs­day 15 De­cem­ber 2022 in Di­jon, France, Cov­eris was proud to re­ceive two awards at the an­nu­al Flex­oStars awards. The con­test is or­gan­ised by the French As­so­ci­a­tion of Flex­o­graph­ic Tech­nol­o­gy (ATF Flexo) and is the only an­nu­al event in France that ac­knowl­edges the best flex­o­graph­ic ...

How the NOVAFOIL 106 integrates seamlessly into the production process of Offsetdruckerei in Schwarzach, Austria

Off­set­druck­erei Schwarzach is an off­set print­ing com­pa­ny known through­out Eu­rope for the finest qual­i­ty high-end pack­ag­ing for pre­mi­um choco­lates, cos­met­ics and oth­er prod­ucts. This made it the ide­al lo­ca­tion to beta test the NO­VAFOIL 106 hot foil stamp­ing ma­chine from BOB­ST. "We use the NO­VAFOIL 106 for long runs with ...

“Design4Circularity” wins 2022 Sustainable Packaging Award

Per­son­al Care pack­ag­ing con­cept “De­sign4­Cir­cu­lar­i­ty” is the re­cip­i­ent of this year’s Sus­tain­able Pack­ag­ing Award, an­nounced at the 2022 Sus­tain­able Beau­ty Awards cer­e­mo­ny on No­vem­ber 7. Re­sult­ing from a unique val­ue chain col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Beiers­dorf, Bo­re­alis, Sieg­w­erk, and Clari­ant, the con­cept cen­ters on giv­ing pack­ag­ing waste a sec­ond life in Per­son­al ...

Financial changes

JBF Fi­nance SA, Buchillon, Switzer­land (“JBF”) has an­nounced a pub­lic ten­der of­fer for all pub­licly held shares of Bob­st Group SA. JBF is Bob­st Group’s largest share­hold­er and al­ready holds ap­prox­i­mate­ly 53% of the shares and vot­ing rights in the com­pa­ny. JBF has an­nounced that it will pay CHF 78.- ...

Innovia Films is focused on producing new BOPP flexible films

In­novia Films is fo­cused on pro­duc­ing new BOPP flex­i­ble films that aid the re­duc­tion of the car­bon foot­print of pack­ag­ing, while pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal per­for­mance, sim­pli­fy­ing struc­tures, and main­tain­ing full re­cy­cla­bil­i­ty. At Fach­pack, In­novia will be pre­sent­ing ex­am­ples of their so­lu­tions to: Stephen Langstaff, Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Man­ag­er, Pack­ag­ing at In­novia Films ...

3-piece-polypropylene-pack

Ween­er Plas­tics (WP) is tak­ing its Re­duce, Reuse, Re­cy­cle prin­ci­ples to a high­er lev­el by com­bin­ing them to fa­cil­i­tate new prod­uct de­vel­op­ments, and even com­plete­ly re­think­ing pack­ag­ing con­cepts. In re­sponse to lat­est mar­ket trends, WP has de­vel­oped a small, handy re­fill pack for con­cen­trat­ed for­mu­las. This can be used at ...

Replacing plastic films and laminates

Mon­di and French Les Crudettes - LSDH Group's Veg­etable Di­vi­sion were recog­nised as Gold win­ner at this year´s Pack­ag­ing In­no­va­tion Awards by DOW for us­ing re­cy­clable Func­tion­al­Bar­ri­er Pa­per man­u­fac­tured by Mon­di to pro­tect ready-to-eat sal­ads. Mon­di’s Func­tion­al­Bar­ri­er Pa­per re­places plas­tic films and lam­i­nates tra­di­tion­al­ly used for FMCG and con­sumer prod­ucts ...

A modern new building for 300 employees

Two and a half years ago, the state road be­tween Crail­sheim and Dinkels­bühl was re­lo­cat­ed to make way for pack­ag­ing ma­chine man­u­fac­tur­er Schu­bert’s planned new build­ing. Con­struc­tion work is now be­gin­ning on the largest in­vest­ment in the com­pa­ny’s his­to­ry. Schu­bert is build­ing a new fi­nal as­sem­bly hall with an of­fice ...

High demand but also supply shortage

Just two years af­ter the start of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, the mar­ket con­tin­ues to re­cov­er vis­i­bly – and Kro­nes has re­port­ed a good or­der sit­u­a­tion, in­sur­ing a sol­id start­ing po­si­tion for 2022. Due to the con­tin­u­ing high lev­el of mar­ket de­mand, the lead times for projects are cur­rent­ly be­com­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly ...

"Changing the way label production is set up"

Lever­ag­ing proven flexo ex­pe­ri­ence and re­cent in­no­v­a­tive inkjet de­vel­op­ments, BOB­ST is en­hanc­ing its All-in-One, All-Inline port­fo­lio with the new DIG­I­TAL MAS­TER se­ries. The DIG­I­TAL MAS­TER 340 and DIG­I­TAL MAS­TER 510 will change the way la­bel pro­duc­tion is set up. They pro­vide a ful­ly dig­i­tal­ized and au­to­mat­ed pro­duc­tion line, from print­ing ...

Introducing two new CCK papers

Sappi will be introducing its range of facestock papers and silicone base papers as well as wet-glue label papers at the upcoming Labelexpo Europe in Brussels from 26 to 29 April 2022. Sappi’s Glassine and CCK silicone base papers offer siliconisation properties as well as easy and efficient processing. They ...

An interview with Michael Graf, Director Consulting at Schubert-Consulting

Schu­bert-Consulting is a di­vi­sion of Schu­bert Pack­ag­ing Sys­tems which has its roots in Ger­hard Schu­bert GmbH. Based on decades of ex­per­tise in the pack­ag­ing sec­tor, Michael Graf, Di­rec­tor Con­sult­ing, and his team ad­vise cus­tomers on all process­es re­lat­ing to prod­uct pack­ag­ing. The main fo­cus of cus­tomer sup­port is the com­pre­hen­sive, ...

Technologies for the flexible packaging industry

BOB­ST an­nounces the com­ple­tion on 11 No­vem­ber 2021 of the pro­ceed­ings re­lat­ing to Bob­st Italia SpA’s suc­cess­ful fi­nal ten­der of­fer for the ac­qui­si­tion of the as­sets of Of­ficine Mec­ca­niche Gio­van­ni Cerut­ti SpA and Cerut­ti Pack­ag­ing Equip­ment SpA, in­clud­ing the ser­vice com­pa­ny 24/7 Cerut­ti Ser­vice S.r.l., (Cerut­ti). Based in San Gior­gio ...

Lessebo Paper announces sales manager appointment

Lesse­bo Pa­per, a lead­ing pro­duc­er of high qual­i­ty en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly pa­per lo­cat­ed in Swe­den, is pleased to an­nounce the ap­point­ment of John Tuck­er as the new Sales Man­ag­er in North and South Amer­i­ca, Asia and South Africa. The com­pa­ny has been pro­duc­ing pa­per since 1693, mak­ing it one of the ...

CleanPrint technology out of the box

Asa­hi Pho­to­pro­ducts re­por­ted it will be ex­hi­bi­ting at the up­co­ming Fach­pack event. At the show Asa­hi will pre­sent the Eu­ro­pean de­but of its new AWPTM Clean­Flat Flat­Top out-of-the-box wa­ter-washable fle­xo pla­te with Clean­Print tech­no­lo­gy, and dis­play its full ran­ge of Clean­Print pla­tes. The com­pa­ny looks for­ward to this op­por­tu­ni­ty to ...

increasing folding-gluing line productivity

BOB­ST an­nounced the new au­to­mat­ic pack­er SPEED­PACK. The pack­er is suit­able for the EX­PERT­FOLD 145/165, EX­PERT­FOLD 170-350 and MAS­TER­FOLD 170-350 and can han­dle all types of box­es, whether cor­ru­gat­ed or litho-laminated, from straight-line, 4&6 cor­ners, to crash-lock bot­tom. Fold­ed and glued box­es are au­to­mat­i­cal­ly count­ed, stacked and band­ed per­fect­ly, de­liv­ered ...

Dr. Paul Walach becomes Managing Director of Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating

Ef­fec­tive July 1, 2021 Dr. Paul Walach (37) be­comes Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor of Reifen­häuser Cast Sheet Coat­ing to­geth­er with Karsten Kratz. With this move, the Reifen­häuser Group busi­ness unit spe­cial­iz­ing in cast film, sheet and ex­tru­sion coat­ing lines in­tro­duces a gen­er­a­tion change at ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment lev­el. Bernd Reifen­häuser, CEO of the ...

Smart paper with embedded RFID tags opens up new business opportunities

Print­ed elec­tron­ics are de­cid­ed­ly on the move. Ra­dio-frequency iden­ti­fi­ca­tion (RFID) is no longer a niche tech­nol­o­gy. It is al­ready be­ing used to great ef­fect in many ar­eas of every­day life: in our pass­ports, ID cards and trav­el cards, clothes, li­brary books, and much more. The vast scale and in­tri­ca­cy of ...