Packaging

Former senior vice-president of Crown Packaging Europe Peter Lockley has taken the reins of Inx International’s European operation.

Atlantic Zeiser has launched Digiline Label Offline, an offline roll-to-roll label serialisation system??.

Packaging firm Macfarlane Group has reported a strong performance in its interim results, with an increase in pre-tax profits of more than 8% compared with the same period last year.

An upbeat KBA has increased its sales and profits targets for the full year and is predicting that its previously loss-making Digital & Web division will be in the black by the year-end.

London’s only packaging show is inviting speakers from some of the world's biggest brand names to talk on key themes such blending luxury with sustainability.

Flexible packaging firm Parkside is nearing completion of a project to develop a packaging solution that neutralises bacteria, such as campylobacter, but doesn’t contain metal.

Macfarlane Group has announced the conditional acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Leicester-based Nelsons for Cartons for £6.75m.

Kodak and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba are behind a new start-up that aims to fight the e-commerce fake product market using invisible, digitally traceable ink markers.

Corrugated converter Caps Cases has splashed out on a new HP Scitex 11000, its first digital press.

Curtis Print & Packaging has launched a circa £1m investment programme, which includes a move to a new site, by signing for a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75.

Encore Packaging Solutions has appointed Martin Burrows as its new business development manager, as the sister company of Encore Envelopes looks to continue its expansion.

Leicester-based rigid box specialist Pollard Boxes has bought local rival Clarke Rubicon.