Labels

Canon enters digital labels market

Canon has entered the crowded digital label printing market with a new inkjet press – the Océ LabelStream 4000 – that it believes offers significant USPs compared with the existing competition.

Handy targets 100m labels with digital spend

Handy Labels is looking to upgrade its digital firepower to help it cross the 100-million-labels threshold and move into new markets.

Q&A: Simon McNelly, print and preset supervisor, Etiquette Labels

Simon is 53 and has worked in the printing industry for 19 years. He is married with two children, and in his spare time “enjoys country walks followed by a nice meal out with the wife”.

£500k investment at Anglia Labels includes Domino install

Anglia Labels has spent £500,000 to install a five-colour Domino N610i inkjet label press and adapt its operation to accommodate the new machine.

Learning how to swim with the big fish

Mercian Labels is moving upwards and outwards. Two months ago the business upped sticks at its Derby operation and shifted it 40 miles to its headquarters in Burntwood, Staffordshire. This was a bold...

Hybrid Uteco/Kodak press reaches commercialisation

Uteco Group and Kodak are poised to install the first hybrid Sapphire Evo press for flexible packaging, featuring Kodak’s Stream inkjet technology.

The Label Makers conjurs the spirit of the Mary Rose

If you want to name your artisanal gin after King Henry VIII’s prestigious warship the Mary Rose, as the HMS Spirit Company has, you best adorn it with a label to match.

Hamilton celebrates 25th anniversary with £600k kit spend

Hamilton Adhesive Labels is celebrating 25 years in business by taking on a £600,000 bespoke converting line that it believes will be Europe's most efficient.

Positive ID Labels acquires Limbus Labels

Positive ID Labels has acquired Limbus Labels, for an undisclosed sum.

Mercian consolidates onto one site

Mercian Labels has transferred its Derby-based operations to its main Burntwood site 40 miles away in Staffordshire to bring all of its processes under one roof and streamline operations.