Packaging

Automation Engine: multi-site operations are able to tap into a central toolset

Esko puts Automation Engine in the cloud

Esko has described the latest release of its Automation Engine as a “very important milestone” for the product, which is now available via the cloud.

Roland 900 Evolution was launched last summer

Manroland Sheetfed snaps up Schaaf

Manroland Sheetfed has snapped up the former head of Heidelberg’s large-format press business and aims to plug the “gaping hole” left by its rival’s exit from that part of the market.

Elopack’s award winning carton is made from 100% wood fibre

Firms lauded in new sustainability awards

Packaging group Elopack and large-format specialist The Delta Group have both been lauded in carbon advisory specialist CarbonQuota’s inaugural ‘Most Sustainable Initiative’ award scheme.

Packaging Innovations and Empack have launched a new digital sector-specific publication

Packaging Innovations pushed back to 2022

Easyfairs’ flagship Birmingham Packaging Innovations event has been postponed to 2022 due to its prior rescheduled June date falling before the government roadmap out of lockdown enables large-scale...

Pleßke (far left) with the rest of the Koenig & Bauer board

Koenig & Bauer: sheetfed 'has bucked industry trend'

Koenig & Bauer expects to break even in the current financial year, after filing 2020 results that were “significantly better than the industry average”.

Marc Bradley (left) and Darren Kaye with the new press

MP+H expands with new Nilpeter

MP+H Packaging has added to its production firepower with a new Nilpeter FA-22 eight-colour flexo press.

Initial Packaging operates in the specialty packaging area

Coveris acquires Initial Packaging

Coveris has acquired speciality bags producer Initial Packaging, in line with its strategic growth targets.

Saica Group: "modernising our terms of employment is crucial"

Industrial action underway at Saica Pack

Union members at two Saica Group sites producing corrugated packaging have begun industrial action over changes to terms and conditions.

John Roberts supplies a wide range of paper-based packaging materials

MBO at John Roberts

A management buyout deal has been completed at paper and corrugated products supplier John Roberts Holdings.

All of the firm's divisions were affected by the pandemic in some way

Trading picks up at James Cropper

James Cropper has signalled that its year-end results will be better than previous expectations, even though sales at its paper business were down by 20% in the second half.