Xeikon Café to feature the ThermoFlexX 30
17 April 2014
Christophe Lievens, director sales and marketing ThermoFlexX will be a key player at the forthcoming Xeikon Café, where the imager manufacturer will be demonstrating a…
Curing
Customer Excellence Award for Sun Chemical
15 April 2014
Sun Chemical’s UK & Ireland Customer Service Centre based at Trafford Park has been awarded the Customer Excellence Award at the European Flexographic Industry Association…
Flexcel Direct System helps surge into packaging market
8 April 2014
Sagawa Printing Group Ltd has purchased two Kodak Flexcel Direct Systems, as the company looks to enter the market for packaging printing. The firm is…
Migration solution for food packaging
8 April 2014
Smurfit Kappa has developed an innovative new solution, which prevents the migration of mineral oil hydrocarbons from packaging into food products. The patented Catcher Board…
Team work brings home the gold
1 April 2014
Andrew Hewitson, Reproflex 3, Andrew Jackson, InterFlex Group, and Trevor Lowes, Reproflex3 with the EFIA award The collaborative efforts of two print firms based in…
FINAT launches recycling awards
3 March 2014
Label converters and end-users that have their paper and/or filmic release liners recycled by dedicated programmes are invited to apply for the first FINAT Recycling…
New CEO appointed at Mark Andy
15 January 2014
Kevin Wilken Mark Andy has appointed Kevin Wilken as president and chief executive officer. He will be taking over from PJ Desai, who becomes…
Looking Back 2001
14 January 2014
We don’t always look back, in 2001 we were looking at UV curing in the future! FlexoTech: August 2001 UV curing heat management for…
Looking back: 1997
10 January 2014
As an industry, environmental concerns have always been a part of how we have grown over the last few decades, as we see in this…
Comexi leads the way in sustainable quality
9 January 2014
Comexi held a practical workshop during its Solventless Printing Technologies seminar The Comexi Group is pressing on with its strategy to lead the industry on making…
Zero to Landfill gains momentum
2 January 2014
The project designed by BPIF labels and PRISMM Environmental to reduce the amount of production waste going to landfill by diverting this waste to energy…
Migration proves to be popular topic
23 December 2013
Delegates represented the whole packaging chain Under the title ‘Managing the Migration Myth’, the British Coatings Federation pulled in an impressive number of attendees to its packaging summit…
BPIF to hold operator training day
13 December 2013
To continue to promote the importance of training in the printing industry, the BPIF has collaborated with GEW, Edale and Fujifilm to hold an operator…
IST Metz extends facilities
29 November 2013
(L-R) Christian Metz, director IT and processes and grandson of the company founder, with Otmar Heirich, senior mayor of Nürtingen, Antonio Camuti, architect, Dirk Jägers,…
Chesapeake Bristol converts to ultra-low migration
29 November 2013
Chesapeake has converted its Bristol facility to ultra-low migration using ULM inks from Paragon Inks As the first self-adhesive label manufacturer in the UK,…