Packaging

Label novices must learn to roll with it
There's no denying it: one of the biggest stories to emerge from last year's Drupa was that digital and packaging finally seemed serious bedfellows. But what may have surprised some, was the...

Fortune will favour first-movers with a personal touch
At Ipex 2010, Canon staged one of the most innovative live demonstrations that the print show has ever seen. Visitors to the manufacturer's stand were invited to submit their name to a Canon...

Print switches on to intelligent design
When Superfast Labels installed the UK's first Epson SurePress L-4033A last year, it wasn't just adding affordable digital print to its capabilities. The machine's ability to print on textured...

Digital kit developers turn up the volume
Printing folding cartons digitally is not a new idea, but until very recently it has been limited by the small formats available in digital presses that could handle realistic production volumes....

The sky's the limit
Compared to, say, the IT industry, it would be fair to say packaging evolves at a rather slow pace. Compare a Walkman from the 1980s with the iPod of today and then compare the packaging of those two...

Redpack hosts £3m Anglia business fund launch
Norfolk-based flow-wrapping and packaging machine manufacturer Redpack hosted the launch of a government-backed £3m Business Growth Fund, at its Norwich facility yesterday.

Sappi and Innovia show compostable packaging concept
Sappi Fine Paper Europe and Innovia Films have completed a joint project to produce compostable flexible packaging manufactured from renewable resources.

IIJ highlights direct deco potential with inkjet seminar
Akiyoshi Ohno, president of Konica Minolta Inkjet, will give a keynote presentation at an upcoming IIJ seminar about product decoration.
Revenues decline but profits steady for Robinson
UK packaging group Robinson recorded a 2% drop in revenues to 21.2m (2011: 21.5m) in the 12 months to 31 December while pre-tax profits grew marginally.

Smurfit Kappa UK fined 200,000 after employee severs fingers
Packaging giant Smurfit Kappa UK has pleaded guilty to health and safety regulation breaches after an employee severed his fingers at its Whitehaven factory.

Juicy labels front soft drink rebrand
A strong, ongoing relationship with Berkshire Labels led Purity Soft Drinks to choose the label printer to collaborate on the world's first 3D augmented reality (AR) soft drinks labels for the rebrand...

Goss shows Vpak to flexible packaging printers as project progresses
Goss has completed demonstrations of its Sunday Vpak with an event focused on flexible packaging.