Packaging

Boomerang: compact device can be run by a single operator

Lexon boosts packaging setup

Lexon Group has invested in a Boomerang 6 folder-gluer for its growing packaging wing, as it readies plans for a new web-to-pack offering.

Harrison Packaging's Mike Baum (right) with K&B area sales manager Mark Francis

Harrison in UK first with Rapida 106X buy

Harrison Packaging has become the first UK customer to invest in Koenig & Bauer’s new Rapida 106X press, in what is the biggest investment in the firm’s 140-year history.

Springfield Solutions: long track record of innovation

Springfield announces major expansion

Springfield Solutions has announced its biggest expansion and investment project yet including a new digital press and additional units for warehousing and raw materials.

Heidelberg UK's landmark Brentford building

Heidelberg sells Brentford site in mega deal

Heidelberg has sold its UK HQ in Brentford to a housing developer and is finalising plans to relocate its customer operations and showroom to a new location.

Dempsey has worked in the industry for 20 years

Dempsey leaves Landa for new role

Mark Dempsey is set to re-join HP Indigo after leaving Landa Digital Printing.

Bobst will release a new cloud-based platform this year

Bobst updates on connectivity vision

Bobst CEO Jean-Pascal Bobst has hailed the firm’s 2020 results as “a major achievement” in light of the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sheetfed press assembly at Heidelberg's Wiesloch facility

Heidelberg: 'comprehensive transformation' is paying off

Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer said the business was now “leaner and more efficient”, and is poised to return to profitability in 2022/23 on the back of a raft of growth initiatives including...

Saica has plants across Europe and in the USA

Saica sells three sheet plants, fires up new Rapida

Saica Group has sold its corrugated sheet plants in England to a new company headed up by a packaging industry veteran, and at the same time has fired up the monster new Koenig & Bauer press at its...

Sachsen Mill: deal involves a further 18 months of newsprint production

Stora Enso sells German newsprint mill

Stora Enso is selling its Sachsen newsprint mill in Germany, with the new owners planning to convert the facility to make containerboard.

New Xsys Nyloflex FTM Digital flexo plate for use with water-based inks

Reuters: Flint Group could spin off flexo wing

Flint Group is engaging with potential buyers for its Xsys pre-press business according to a report from Reuters.