Leveraging its long-standing partnership with inkjet technology expert Xaar, Nilpeter is seeing a growing number of its presses offering advanced digital varnish and foiling embellishments to meet the demand for added-value labels in Italy.
Founded in 1991 in Fort Collins, Colorado, New Belgium Brewing emerged as a pioneer in the craft beer industry, with a commitment to inspire social and environmental change embedded in their core values from the beginning. New Belgium consistently seeks out partners that prioritize good stewardship of the planet and found WEIMA, a leading manufacturer of shredding and compressing machinery, as one of those partners.
The innovative smooth-cutting, bladeless technology called PLUS-CUT is patented by ULMA and is available in its vertical wrapper range to produce doypacks with an exceptional finish.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves across various sectors, and the packaging industry is no exception. As consumer demands evolve and the push for sustainability grows stronger, AI is stepping in to revolutionize the way packaging is designed, produced, and managed. Here’s a look at how AI is transforming the packaging industry and what it means for the future.
1. Smart Design and Customization
AI-driven design tools are enabling companies to create innovative and highly customized packaging solutions.
Pact Collective and Eastman today announce they have qualified the use of clean, multicolor PET waste from Pact members and consumers as feedstock for Eastman’s methanolysis technology. This process addresses the challenge of multicolored PET received at material recovery facilities (MRF), which in some instances is unlikely to be mechanically recycled due to color variations. Eastman’s methanolysis process enables the upcycling of this material into Eastman Renew materials — high-quality copolyesters and PET for the beauty industry that offer a quality on par with virgin materials.
The beauty industry has a long-standing association with metallization, an essential part of packaging that helps brands stand out. With ECOLEAF metallization technology, brands can benefit from high-quality metallic finishing while reducing their environmental footprint.
Leading Hungarian bakery Csipet Land has installed an Ishida weighing, packing and quality control line to achieve an annual production increase of 4-5 million packs of salted sticks for one of the country’s best-selling snacks.
Recycling equipment company Bollegraaf has entered into a strategic partnership with Greyparrot, an AI waste analytics company, in an effort to provide AI capabilities to more MRF equipment.
Bollegraaf will invest $12.8 million in Greyparrot, obtaining a non-controlling stake in the company.
The first half of 2024 has been extremely positive for WEIMA. This success was mainly due to the company's presentations in Orlando (USA) and Munich. In his new role as Sales Director of the WEIMA Group, Kay Schulte was responsible for the leading trade shows NPE and IFAT for the first time. He has been with the shredding specialist from Ilsfeld for almost 20 years and has previously managed markets in South America and Central Europe.
Fujifilm is a global technology company operating across a diverse range of industries. The inkjet integration arm of Fujifilm, FUJIFILM Integrated Inkjet Solutions, develops and integrates inkjet printing and finishing technology for a variety of industrial and security applications.
