Packaging
Packaging company feels Affinity for new folder
Affinity Packaging has invested £250,000 in a Signature Premier 110 CS folder-gluer from Ace Machinery to improve its service offering.
Beatus spends big with KBA investment
Carton printer Beatus Cartons has kicked off a £4m year-long investment plan with the purchase of a seven-colour KBA Rapida 106.
Bobst demonstrates enhanced flexo process for corrugated
Bobst has unveiled THQ FlexoCloud Technology, a four-colour flexo process, which it said offers a “quantum shift” in post-print flexo that will enable the process to challenge litho laminated...
Setting out a plan for long-term viability
Jason Short jetted off to Barcelona last week. For a man who went a long way, he’s come a long way. The managing director of Qualvis Print & Packaging was in the cosmopolitan capital of Catalonia for...
Plain packaging regs come into force
New regulations forcing tobacco companies to sell cigarettes and rolling tobacco in plain packaging came into force over the weekend.
Chester rounds off £2m packaging spend
Chester Medical Solutions has rounded off a £2m year-long investment programme with the installation of a new six-colour B2 Komori GL29 with coater.
'Pringles factor' posing packaging problems
The UK’s Recycling Association has named a number of packaging products as being the “villains” of the recycling world.
Major investment at Printing & Packaging Co
Printing & Packaging Co has upped capacity and enhanced its print offering with a new seven-colour KBA Rapida 106 with double-coater.
Falconer adds second-hand Speedmaster to service rising demand
Falconer Print & Packaging is adding a refurbished five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 52 UV press to its workshop, along with a new Suprasetter and an upgrade to Prinect.
Flint Group launches UltraCura low-migration inks
Flint Group has launched the first in a new series of UV low-migration inks designed for the sheetfed and web offset packaging markets, that will be brought to market throughout 2017.