Packaging

Kolbus managing director Kai Büntemeyer has left the management of the company, effective yesterday (31 January).

Castle Colour Packaging is to install a seven-colour Rapida 106 with coater from Koenig & Bauer as a key component of its upgrade cycle.

Multinational food packaging giant Tetra Pak has claimed it is to become the first carton manufacturer to introduce full-colour digital printing capabilities, in a collaboration with Koenig & Bauer...

DS Smith’s proposed acquisition of Spanish corrugated packaging and paper manufacturer Europac is expected to be completed later this week.

Flint Group has raised the prices of its full range of packaging inks across Europe, blaming a tough trading environment.

Packaging figureheads are concerned the government is placing undue blame at manufacturers’ feet with a new waste strategy that would see them bear the cost of recycling.

Unite members at CPI William Clowes will go ahead with a third strike day on Thursday 17 January as a pay dispute with management continues.

Inkjet manufacturer Xaar’s full-year revenues are set to have fallen by more than a third year-on-year after trading in Q4 continued at levels below the company’s expectations.

The Packaging Experts has invested in a Roland DG VersaUV LEF-200 flatbed printer to complement a recently installed Dyss X5-1310T digital cutter on in-house prototyping jobs.

The ongoing plastics debate has dominated 2018 for Clifton Packaging Group chairman Shahid Sheikh, who believes that innovation coupled with export presents the biggest opportunity for printers going...