Packaging

Alexir Partnership has marked its 30th anniversary with the launch of a new website to showcase its cartonboard alternatives to plastic food packaging.

Labelexpo Europe’s 40th anniversary edition kicked off yesterday with exhibitors rolling out a raft of innovations for label printing and, increasingly, flexible packaging.

Infigo Software has integrated its technology with HP Indigo for the fully automated web-to-pack setup that will be showcased at Labelexpo.

EPac Flexible Packaging’s new UK digital printing production facility will be up and running next month.

Staeger Clear Packaging is now able to manufacture its recycled PET from post-consumer waste fully sourced in the UK.

Printing ink giant Sun Chemical has signed a deal with Epple Druckfarben aimed at taking Epple’s specialist sheetfed offset inks for direct food contact to a wider global market.

Sustainability will be the focus of the new PlasticFreeLand feature at Packaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging London later this week.

Oris Packaging Innovations has added the Roland DG VersaUV S-Series as an option for its Flex Pack/Web packaging proofing bundle to increase the bed size available to users.

Printing ‘Smoking kills’ onto every individual cigarette could discourage smokers, according to new research.

Packaging giant DS Smith has reported that its trading “continues to progress well” despite expected continued macro-economic uncertainty and “ongoing subdued volumes” in some markets.

Macfarlane Group has acquired Leyland Packaging Company in a deal that could be worth up to £3.25m when complete after courting the business for more than a decade.

SwissQprint has ended its exclusive UK reseller partnership with Spandex and moving to direct sales and support in the UK.