Packaging

Packaging manufacturer and printer Americk ASP Flexibles will more than triple its footprint this year in a £7m move to a new site in Wigan.

Firstan Quality Packaging has invested £6m in two Komori 18,000sph presses - a six-colour Lithrone GX40 with coater and a multi-unit Lithrone GX40RP with reverse printing and coating.

GT4 Group, owner of Glasgow-based labels and packaging printer Gavin Watson and creative agency GT4, has entered the pressure-sensitive labels market by acquiring label manufacturer TPL Labels.

Jaymar Packaging is the first UK company to use IST (UK)’s new UV retrofit service, after adding a conventional UV system to a six-colour-plus-coater Manroland 700.

Year-end sales at Xaar are anticipated to be in line with expectations, although its operating margin is likely to fall to around 20%.

Speakers from a range of top brands and companies have been revealed for Packaging Innovations next month, as show organiser Artexis Easyfairs announces it has sold the biggest stand yet at sister...

Delta Print and Packaging chairman Terry Cross has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to the economy and voluntary service to the community in Northern Ireland.

The corrugated packaging sector will go from web offset to digital “very quickly”, according to HP EMEA’s most senior Graphics Solutions Business executive, who plans to start a switch-to-digital...

Heritage Envelopes has launched PackMail, a new packaging format that does not require conventional boxes.

Kitchenware and homeware retailer Lakeland UK has bought a CMC CartonWrap 1000 box-on-demand system to automate its packaging of home shopping products.

The first four-colour version of Heidelberg’s Jetmaster Dimension 4D inkjet printing system went live at a high street retail location earlier this week.

Packaging group DS Smith is set to install the world's first HP PageWide Web Press T1100S.