Packaging

DS Smith has acquired POS specialist Creo from investment management company Writtle, its seventh acquisition since May 2015.

Label and leaflet specialist Denny Bros has eased a production bottleneck with a new Wohlenberg 115 high-speed cutter.

Integrity Print is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the company, and has made a £1.5m investment across its operations as it adapts for the future.

Three UK printers were among those which chose KBA this Drupa, helping to propel the German manufacturer to a €100m sales boom.

Glossop Cartons has signed at Drupa for an RMGT 10-series B1 press, in a six-colour-plus-coater configuration.

Glossop Cartons signed up for a new carton-specific MIS system from Imprint-MIS at Drupa.

HP has sealed a huge Japanese deal for a new books-on-demand factory at Drupa, and has also announced a collaboration with packaging giant Smurfit Kappa for its upcoming C500 corrugated solution.

Screen and BHS Corrugated Maschinen have formed a new partnership to develop a 300m/min inline inkjet printing solution for BHS corrugators.

Xeikon has revealed a new one-pass-duplex web-fed system, the Xeikon 9600, a flatbed die-cutter and brought its long-awaited Trillium One for its first public outing at Drupa.

CTP manufacturer Cron (5-B24) has unveiled six new products at Drupa, which it said will take it into broader fields of offset press optimisation, plate production and flexo packaging.

Web-to-print giant Cimpress is set to take “up to” 20 Landa Nanography presses, and Landa has also announced the identity of its first three beta customers.

Goss International has announced a strategic partnership with Netherlands-based web offset and service specialists DG Press Services.