Packaging

Glossop Cartons is eyeing the short-run packaging market after becoming the first UK-based company to invest in Fujifilm's Acuity LED 1600, earlier this year.

Flowprint has spent around 750,000 finishing its folding box department with the arrival of an SBL STS-1050 cutting and creasing platen and Sakurai Oliver offset press.

Océ has launched a clear polypropylene film, for use with its Arizona flatbed UV presses, that gives a three dimensional effect to anything that is printed on it.

Labelgraphics has boosted its production capacity by more than 60% after moving into its new facility, marking the culmination of a 7.5m investment programme.

The 50m turnover Mansfield-headquartered packaging firm has purchased label printers Labelsco for an undisclosed sum.

Recycled packaging supplier DS Smith has said its acquisition of SCA Packaging will deliver a return on investment above its cost of capital in 2012/13, with a 'substantial' earnings enhancement.

Kodak has forecast a total operating cash flow of $33m (20m) on revenue of $1.2bn for the first six months of 2013, although its US operation is forecast to lose $110m in the same period.

Schawk has launched what it claims is the industry's first cloud-based platform for objectively measuring print quality, particularly in relation to the accurate and consistent reproduction of colour.