We see Industrial Printing as a Potential Growth Segment

28 Aug 2017
Bhaskar Ch

August 24, 2017 Industrial printing has become ubiquitous in everyday printing. In an occasional series of interviews, the VDMA German Association of Printing and Paper Technology shines the spotlight on the active players in this market. In our latest interview, Frank Schäfer, Sales Director of the Hamburg company KROENERT GmbH & Co KG, talks about the significance of industrial printing for his company, growth opportunities in this young market and the challenges in processing unfamiliar substrates and printing materials.

MULTIVAC is expanding capacity at its Enger production site

28 Aug 2017
Bhaskar Ch

Enger, 24 August 2017 – The production capacity of MULTIVAC Marking & Inspection in Enger is to be expanded with a modern extension to the production hall – and this will also enable the logistics and assembly processes to be optimised. The building work has already begun, and the planned date for putting the new production hall into operation is April 2018. The investment amounts to 2.5 million euros.

 

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Double chamber pharmaceutical blister acts as mixer and dispenser

26 Aug 2017
Radhika Rewri

The Frangible Formpack® Blister, is an aluminium foil blister pack, with several chambers, made of Amcor Flexibles’ Formpack® bottom web and a lidding foil. The Frangible Formpack® Blister, jointly developed with machine builder Rohrer - Leading Solutions, enables moisture sensitive, dry drugs or vaccines requiring delivery in a liquid, to be contained in the same package safely, prior to mixing and dispensing from it. One chamber is filled with a dry powder incorporating the active ingredient (highly moisture-sensitive), the other one with a liquid.

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Cream Jar with rippled effect

25 Aug 2017
Radhika Rewri

AMOREPACIFIC’s Prime Reserve cream jar with the consumer experience had elegant design. This cream jar provides consumers the ultimate indulgence and is an attractive addition to the consumers’ personal care product display in the home. Made of ten different components, this molded “jar within a jar” conveys luxury with its remarkable feel and weight. Due to AMOREPACIFIC’s technology, product manufacturers can decorate the outer jars while leaving the inner jar untouched and, if the formulation of the product is ever altered, the outer jar can still remain the same.

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Light-weight sustainable agrochemical auto-stackable containers 

25 Aug 2017
Radhika Rewri

Dow AgroSciences’ light-weight, sustainable, agrochemical, auto-stackable, 15L PET containers provide considerable functionality in stacking and distribution and allow greater ease of product dispensing than traditional containers. Dow Agrosciences took many design requirements into consideration and integrated them with stackability and pourability to enable added functionality to the lightweight containers. Addressing the whole value chain, Dow Agrosciences considered the distribution chain, end user, and the end of life for the package.

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Rovema NA Announces Guide to CPG Shelf Ready Packaging Trends

24 Aug 2017
Bhaskar Ch

Norcross, GA – Rovema North America announced today publication of its new Guide to Consumer Package Goods Shelf Ready Packaging Trends. Published in conjunction with Vanguard Packaging, a retail ready corrugated and paperboard innovator, the guide provides CPG teams with the background and implementation framework necessary for planning an effective, staged implementation of SRP mandates from large retailers.

 

Studio on Fire Raises the Bar with a Kluge Folder Gluer

24 Aug 2017
Bhaskar Ch

St. Croix Falls, WI, August 23, 2017 - Studio on Fire, St. Paul, MN, a best-in-class craft letterpress printer that focuses on making premium and high-quality print work, recently installed a Kluge OmniFold 3000 folder gluer from Brandtjen & Kluge. The OmniFold 3000 automatic folding and gluing system is a fully modular converting system designed to fulfill today's need and grow with the future demands of the commercial printer and packaging manufacturer.

Marketer Agility and Responsiveness Impact Brand Performance, Reveals New CMO Council Study

23 Aug 2017
Bhaskar Ch

Marketers Look to Boost Agility and Create Competitive Differentiation With Rapid Product Adaptation to Address Evolving Consumer Preferences

 

SAN JOSE, Calif. (August 10, 2017)—How quickly and effectively marketers respond and adapt to ongoing consumer feedback has become a new determinant of brand performance, reports the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council in a survey report released today.

 

Versatile and efficient packaging solutions with process reliability for packing medical products

23 Aug 2017
Bhaskar Ch

Wolfertschwenden, 22 August 2017 - The trend in the medical products industry towards greater individualisation and product variety continues unabated. At this year's Compamed in Düsseldorf, the focus on the MULTIVAC stand is therefore on flexible solutions for packing medical products in small to medium-sized batches, as well as on the automated infeed of products of all types. The thermoforming packaging machines, traysealers and chamber machines, which will be exhibited, are highly efficient and suitable for producing a very wide range of pack formats.