September 2016

For its competition to find this year’s best aluminium aerosol cans, AEROBAL, the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers, once again invited entries from all over the world. AEROBAL’s member companies account for about 70 per cent of all aluminium aerosol cans produced worldwide. The panel of experts comprised journalists from well-known international packaging and can magazines.

A starring role for the new IPS 400, the machine that makes Sacmi the perfect all-round partner for converters. Also on show: integrated Sacmi solutions for the beverage industry, from stretch-blow moulding to filling, plus the new COLORACAP for the digital printing of caps

Sidel, the leading provider of production equipment and services for liquids in PET, announces the launch of “Sidel Services Online” for fast and easy ordering of original spare parts for its equipment and complete lines.

Unchallenged leader on the local market and the country’s sole supplier to the major beverage players, Khoshform has chosen Sacmi technology on account of its quality, performance and a flexibility that permits the use of different mould types.

Unperturbed by increasing market consolidation, shipments of the European tube industry revealed a positive development in the first half of 2016. Total production of member companies of etma – european tube manufacturers association – totalled almost 5.3 billion tubes and was thus about two per cent above the previous year’s figures. Shipments by etma member companies account for some 70 per cent of total European tube production. This means tube production outpaced growth in GNP and industrial production in Europe, both of which were at roughly 1.5 per cent.

21 September 2016, Poland (Europe): Melamine, a synthetic triazine compound and an organic base is known to impart scratch, wear and puncture resistance to packaging films thereby enhancing the strength of the ensuing laminate structure, but the cons of the compound over weigh its pros. The contamination of pet food with melamine and its analogue cyanuric acid led to kidney failure in thousands of dogs and cats in North America in 2007 drawing much flak.

The BOBST stand at K 2016 will be dedicated to providing inspiration to plastic film converters on how to achieve excellence in process performance and substrate functionality. The benefits of doing so include better product quality, new substrate functions to offer clients, and improvements in the economics of plastic substrate production. BOBST Solution Masters will be live on the stand to advise visitors about their options. The show will also see details presented of the new K5 EXPERT metallizer.

German packaging companies see chances in the growth market of Indonesia

IndoPPP exhibition was a success
Jakarta, 7 – 10 September 2016 – “For German companies, the IndoPPP was the perfect platform to show their innovative solutions and services for the printing and packaging industry,” was the positive conclusion drawn by Devindran Chelliah, Regional Manager of the German exhibitor TKM Meyer at this industrial exhibition.

New FB2550 software update allows access to the full service menu via web interface, simplifying operation

Kansas City, MO – Fairbanks Scales Inc., the world’s leader in weighing technology, announces that recent updates to the FB2550 Advanced Scale Instrument software simplify operation for end users by providing the ability to select and clear all incomplete transactions, and by enhancing the existing email error notification system, such that it detects when a load cell may be at fault on the scale.