VERPACKEN-AKTUELL

Informations from the Packaging Industry

Advanced Sustainability

Wastewater treatment in plastics recycling

Re­cy­cling lines for plas­tics are the cir­cu­lar econ­o­my’s lynch­pins – and as such make a vi­tal con­tri­bu­tion to­wards pro­tect­ing our nat­ur­al en­vi­ron­ment and economis­ing on valu­able re­sources. On the oth­er hand, they also con­sume re­sources, chief among them wa­ter. Which goes to show: A re­cy­cling tech­nol­o­gy’s sus­tain­abil­i­ty must not be ...

Plastics Industry Association

Ulrich Reifenhäuser inducted into the “Plastics Hall of Fame”

Ten lead­ing per­son­al­i­ties from the in­ter­na­tion­al plas­tics in­dus­try were re­cent­ly in­duct­ed into the "Plas­tics Hall of Fame" - one of them is Ul­rich Reifen­häuser (64), CSO of the Reifen­häuser Group, Chair­man of the Ex­hibitors' Ad­vi­so­ry Board of the “K” plas­tics show and Chair­man of the Plas­tics and Rub­ber Ma­chin­ery As­so­ci­a­tion ...

Expansion of PVC-free solutions

ALTANA Acquires Closure Materials Business from Henkel

AL­TANA has ac­quired Henkel's clo­sure ma­te­ri­als busi­ness. As a re­sult, the spe­cial­ty chem­i­cals group is strength­en­ing its range of PVC-free so­lu­tions for the pack­ag­ing in­dus­try in par­tic­u­lar. With­in the AL­TANA Group, the busi­ness will be in­te­grat­ed into the ACTE­GA di­vi­sion and glob­al­ly as­signed to the Met­al Pack­ag­ing So­lu­tions busi­ness line. ...

developing a high-speed production line for fiber-based bottles

Stora Enso and Pulpex partner to produce fiber-based bottles on industrial scale

Sto­ra Enso and pack­ag­ing tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny Pulpex join forces to in­dus­tri­al­ize the pro­duc­tion of eco-friendly pa­per bot­tles and con­tain­ers made from wood fiber pulp. The joint de­vel­op­ment agree­ment is formed ex­clu­sive­ly be­tween Sto­ra Enso and Pulpex, a pack­ag­ing tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny es­tab­lished by Di­a­geo (mak­ers of John­nie Walk­er, Smirnoff and Guin­ness) ...

Low-shear handling of suspensions with an intermittent dispersing phase

Liquid Powder Processing

The clas­sic man­u­fac­tur­ing process for pow­ders is called Pow­der Com­paction: Dry pow­ders are com­pact­ed with a pounder to form a sol­id unit (a disc or oth­er form). Fin­ished prod­ucts are i.e. eye shad­ow or blush. But in some man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es pow­ders are for­mu­lat­ed in a liq­uid phase. This of­ten re­sults ...

versynta flexible filling platform

Syntegon presents innovations at ACHEMA Pulse

Ever small­er batch­es for in­di­vid­ual ther­a­peu­tic ap­proach­es, new cost-intensive bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, and the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic are cur­rent­ly chang­ing the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­dus­try rapid­ly. Syn­te­gon Tech­nol­o­gy show­cas­es so­lu­tions to these chal­lenges at the vir­tu­al ACHEMA Pulse from June 15 to 16, 2021. "High­ly flex­i­ble fill­ing tech­nolo­gies with max­i­mum yield, fast prod­uct and pack­ag­ing ...

BOBST DAYS 2021

BOBST opens its virtual doors for a packaging industry wide event

BOB­ST is set to de­liv­er a large pro­gram of we­bi­na­rs and live dis­cus­sions that will cov­er all as­pects of la­bel and pack­ag­ing pro­duc­tion, over four days in ear­ly June. With each day ded­i­cat­ed to one sec­tor, in­dus­try ex­perts will present what’s new and what’s im­por­tant to op­ti­mize your pro­duc­tion floor. ...

Inline digital printing is making further advances

Better individualization, brand protection, and personalization

Dig­i­tal in­line print­ing con­tin­ues to ad­dress a grow­ing num­ber of chal­lenges in com­bi­na­tion with drop-on-demand (DoD) inkjet tech­nol­o­gy. This al­lows in­di­vid­u­al­iza­tion of con­sumer goods pack­ag­ing at a very late stage, es­pe­cial­ly for small batch­es, with the abil­i­ty to add brand pro­tec­tion fea­tures ad­dress­ing prod­uct pira­cy and gray mar­ket risk. When ...

Ensure quality, production efficiency and flexibility for customer requirements

Compounds for pearlized BoPP films

The pearl­ized and white-pearlized mas­ter­batch­es of Tosaf's ZD fam­i­ly en­able man­u­fac­tur­ers of BoPP films to flex­i­bly ad­dress spe­cif­ic re­quire­ments of their cus­tomers in the pack­ag­ing and la­bel in­dus­tries. When added dur­ing pro­cess­ing they en­sure uni­form film prop­er­ties as opac­i­ty, gloss, and thick­ness, across the en­tire width, even when pro­duc­ing films ...

safe and robust bottles in numerous designs, shapes and colors

BASF expanded its Ultrason® P portfolio

BASF has now ex­pand­ed its Ul­tra­son® P port­fo­lio so that it can be used to man­u­fac­ture high-quality bot­tles by all three pro­cess­ing meth­ods that are stan­dard in the in­dus­try. The two polyphenyl­sul­phone (PPSU) grades Ul­tra­son® P 2010 and P 3010 can be used in in­jec­tion stretch blow mold­ing, ex­tru­sion blow ...

Enhanced UX and new exhibitors in Zone 1

Printing Expo Announces the Opening of Zone 2

Fol­low­ing a surge in in­ter­est from both vis­i­tors and ex­hibitors, Print­ing Expo has an­nounced the open­ing of Zone 2 of their on­line ex­hi­bi­tion which in­cludes the Xeikon Wall Dec­o­ra­tion Show­room and the Trade As­so­ci­a­tion Hub. They have also an­nounced new ex­hibitors for Zone 1. With over 21,000 vis­i­tors to date ...

Flexo press cleaning

New biodegradable product range

Flint Group Im­age Trans­fer Tech­nolo­gies in­tro­duces En­vi­roflex, a com­plete suite of biodegrad­able prod­ucts for su­pe­ri­or clean­ing of flexo press­es, anilox rollers and ro­togravure cylin­ders, flexo plates and flex­o­graph­ic print­ing fa­cil­i­ties. The En­vi­roflex biodegrad­able prod­uct range has been de­vel­oped to de­liv­er not only a safe work en­vi­ron­ment whilst per­form­ing dai­ly main­te­nance ...

Water-based gravure printing: working together for a sustainable future

Collaboration of BOBST and Siegwerk on Water-Based Ink Systems

High sol­vent use in gravure print­ing is per­haps the biggest hur­dle to over­come in or­der for this sound tech­nol­o­gy to main­tain its strong po­si­tion longer term. With in­creased gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion glob­al­ly and pub­lic opin­ion fa­vor­ing new green­er tech­nolo­gies, the fu­ture op­por­tu­ni­ties for gravure are des­tined to be cou­pled with more ...

bio-based feedstock

Sustainable hot melt adhesives from Dow and Henkel

Dow Pack­ag­ing and Spe­cial­ty Plas­tics, a busi­ness di­vi­sion of Dow, an­nounces the ex­pan­sion of its high-performance AFFIN­I­TY™ GA poly­olefin elas­tomers (POE) with the launch of bio-based AFFIN­I­TY™ RE. This so­lu­tion has en­abled Dow cus­tomer Henkel’s Tech­nomelt SUPRA ECO line to achieve an­oth­er mile­stone in both com­pa­nies’ sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals. Cli­mate change ...

Cooperation with Cubicc

Scallog expands to Brazil

Af­ter ex­pand­ing from Eu­rope to the US, Scal­log now heads for Brasil. As an im­por­tant pil­lar to its in­ter­na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, Scal­log, one of France’s fore­most sup­pli­ers of lo­gis­tics ro­bots, has formed a com­mer­cial part­ner­ship with Brazil­ian com­pa­ny Cu­bicc, a lead­ing in­te­gra­tor in pick­ing and pack­ing so­lu­tions. Cu­bicc will mar­ket the ...

Expanding packaging solutions for pharmaceutical applications

ProMach Acquires Serpa Packaging

Pro­Mach, a world­wide leader in pack­ag­ing ma­chin­ery so­lu­tions, an­nounced that it has ac­quired Ser­pa Pack­ag­ing So­lu­tions, a lead­ing provider of car­ton­ing and end of line pack­ag­ing sys­tems for the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, med­ical de­vice, nu­traceu­ti­cal, food, cos­met­ics, and per­son­al care mar­kets. The ad­di­tion of Ser­pa brings au­to­mat­ed car­ton­ing sys­tems into Pro­Mach’s port­fo­lio ...

Demonstration Capabilities Expanded

BOBST opens a Digital Inkjet Demonstration Center in Barcelona

BOB­ST has ex­pand­ed its demon­stra­tion ca­pa­bil­i­ties with a ded­i­cat­ed demon­stra­tion cen­ter out­side of Switzer­land. The new Demon­stra­tion Cen­ter in Barcelona will pro­vide a unique op­por­tu­ni­ty for con­vert­ers and brand own­ers to come and see the Mou­vent™ Clus­ter Tech­nol­o­gy for them­selves, open­ing a new chap­ter in la­bel pro­duc­tion. BOB­ST did not ...

New Business Unit for Consolidation

SACMI RigidPackagingTechnologies B.U. established

In Jan­u­ary 2021 the SAC­MI Rigid­Pack­ag­ingTech­nolo­gies Busi­ness Unit brought all SAC­MI so­lu­tions con­cern­ing rigid pack­ag­ing un­der one roof to en­hance the com­pa­ny’s nu­mer­ous mar­ket-leading tech­no­log­i­cal plus-points and keep pace with the in­dus­try’s ac­cel­er­at­ing fo­cus on sus­tain­abil­i­ty, ver­sa­til­i­ty and per­for­mance. “SAC­MI has al­ways stood out” high­lights the Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of the ...

Eleni Despotou to follow Angelika Christ

FEFCO welcomes new Secretary General

FE­F­CO an­nounce the ap­point­ment of Eleni Despo­tou as the new Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al by the Board of Di­rec­tors. Eleni will start her po­si­tion on 1st Feb­ru­ary 2021. An­ge­li­ka Christ, FE­F­CO Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al since 2007, will re­tire. Eleni has an in-depth knowl­edge of the Eu­ro­pean Union In­sti­tu­tions and In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tions with a ...

Brückner’s solutions for new and used equipment

BOPP and BOPE Inline Coating: Perfect barrier, improved recyclability

Dri­ven by the dis­cus­sions about re­cy­cling tar­gets for plas­tic pack­ag­ing, mono-material pack­ag­ing struc­tures are re­ceiv­ing more and more in­ter­est: for ex­am­ple, bi­ax­i­al­ly ori­ent­ed polypropy­lene (BOPP) or poly­eth­yl­ene (BOPE) films. Rea­sons for this are a bet­ter sorta­bil­i­ty of the pack­ag­ing and an im­proved qual­i­ty of re­cy­cling ma­te­ri­als. With mono-material struc­tures the ...

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