June 2017

Global closures specialist Silgan Closures will have a major presence at this year’s Drinktec, providing a showcase for its wide-ranging solutions for key sectors of the beverage industry.

In 2017, it will be seventy-five years since BOBST started designing and producing folder-gluer machines for the packaging industry.

One of the very first such machines, a PCR382, was set up in 1942 at the Zeiler company near Bern, Switzerland. This same company, which under its current name, Limmatdruck Zeiler, is now an extremely successful part of one of Europe's leading manufacturers of folding boxes — the RLC Packaging Group — is, to this day, still a BOBST client.

How services help to build, maintain and improve beverage producers’ line performance throughout their asset lifecycle will be a key highlight for Sidel and Gebo Cermex services teams, exhibiting jointly as part of the Sidel Group at Drinktec 2017 (11-15 September).

Les Ulis, France, 22. June 2017. IMA Erca, the packaging machinery manufacturer, has developed a new FFS machine for the Mexican dairy group LALA. This enables the dairy to manufacture technically sophisticated, filled snap-on lids  for various yoghurt products itself. The company had previously purchased the snap-on lids externally.

Newly-Enhanced Opening Mechanism  Improves Customer Experience for Eco-Friendly Package 

Newark, NJ –Keystone Folding Box Company has released an improved version of its child-resistant Ecoslide-RX compliance package, which includes an updated re-closable locking feature designed to offer consumers a better experience. 

Flint Group has today announced publication of its 2017 Sustainability Report - providing the most comprehensive and accurate view of the organisation’s sustainability performance to date.

Flexibility, reliability and high quality codes are the major benefits of four Linx 8900 Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ) printers installed at specialist manufacturer and contract packer Micromix Plant Health in Nottingham.

Micromix develops chemical formulations and manufactures a wide range of crop and plant nutrition products, as well as offering a contract packing operation. As a result, it has a variety of coding requirements for different pack formats including bottles, buckets and boxes.