LABELS PRINTING AND PACKAGING

Labels printing and packaging

More functionality delivers more opportunities with the LabelStream 4000

Canon is announcing significant upgrades and optional configurations to its digital label press, the LabelStream 4000 series. Addressing the needs of label converters, new improvements include an optional orange colour channel, a screen-like high-opacity white ink, and enhanced usability for greater production efficiencies. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: Canon

Labels printing and packaging

The future of label printing

“The digitalization of our world and of our lives is everywhere and is rapidly entering into the print and packaging industry. Digital may be a competitor but it can also be part of the solution for printers and converters to be more efficient.” ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: Stratus Packaging

Labels printing and packaging

Intelligent Labels, High Added Value Information

Packaging trends reflect the most common and most potential consumer attitudes, purchasing actions and behaviours. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: ITENE

Labels printing and packaging

Rise in Alcohol Prices Creates Financial Impact for Packaging Companies

For flexographic companies using solvent-based platemaking processes, the sharp rise in alcohol prices we are seeing in several EU countries increases the cost of flexographic plates by as much as 3 EUR per square meter. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Estuchería BRAND: Asahi Photoproducts

Labels printing and packaging

Paper material from the meadow

Introducing HERMAnature fieno (340), HERMA offers a label material based on grass paper for the first time. Compared to paper made from fresh fibre or even recycled cellulose, grass paper is very resource-friendly and has a small CO2 footprint. Allergen-free and featuring a low-migration adhesive, the grass paper is ideally suited for food and cosmetics labels. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: Herma

Labels printing and packaging

UPM Raflatac and SABIC first to bring PP label material with recycled content to market

UPM Raflatac is taking a major step toward creating a circular economy by collaborating with SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, for the first polypropylene (PP) label film manufactured from post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic on the market (on a mass balance basis). Now available globally, this label material uses SABIC’s groundbreaking TRUCIRCLE solutions for certified circular PP products. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: UPM Raflatac

Labels printing and packaging

Global Release Liner Market 2020: New & Expanded AWA Annual Review

Growing demand for release liner across an increasingly broad application base has resulted in new and expanded in-depth coverage for AWA Alexander Watson Associates’ newly-published AWA Global Release Market Liner Annual Review 2020. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: AWA

Labels printing and packaging

Continuous cycle for shampoo bottles

Equipped with a HERMA wash-off adhesive, the label paves the way for recycling large quantities of plastic packaging. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: Herma

Labels printing and packaging

Sustainability: Key to Profitability

The pressure continues to find more sustainable forms of printing has been given a significant boost by the growing interest in finding recyclable, compostable and/or biodegradable solutions for packaging, from governments and also by major brands, which have also set a deadline for achieving this. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Flexible packaging BRAND: Comexi

Labels printing and packaging

Label leadership: 4 trends that show why labels are pioneering progress in packaging

The label printing market continues to grow: the global market was valued at $36.98 billion in 2017 and is forecast to reach $45.22 billion by 2022. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Labels BRAND: Bobst