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Newtec Labelling Hall C6 – Booth 231 Newtec Labelling will exhibit a full range of labelling machines: Adhesive Cold Glue, Hot Melt and Rollfed. The adhesive labelling machine has the adhesive group, intentionally oversize, to guarantee a maximum precision during the application of the labels on the bottle and it will
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H.B. Fuller Hall C6 – Booth 445 The European Green Deal and related legislation in Europe and globally, as well as corporate commitments aligned to the New Plastics Economy, are driving change for consumer packaging at a rapid pace. Working with partners across the industry to develop new packaging solutions ready
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Innovia Films, producer of highly differentiated speciality films, announce the opening of a new 6.2m multi-layer co-extrusion line at its site in Płock, Poland. The state-of-the-art line will be dedicated to manufacture low-density polyolefin shrink film for shrink sleeve labels and tamper evident applications. The film forms the basis to produce
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Kirin Beverage Company Limited will start trial sales of the product Kirin Namacha at some retailers in the Tokyo area from 7 June, offering a paper sticker instead of a common label. The product does not use a label wrapped around the 525ml PET bottle itself, but comes with a small
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The first of the redesigned Frosch product groups are already on retail shelves. One after another, the remaining products around the world will don the new design as the cleaning products manufacturer Werner & Mertz of Mainz, Germany, rolls out the biggest design relaunch in eco brand’s 35-year-plus history. Clearly Distinct
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In a segment where the product is water and the target group is children, the main challenge is to offer an incentive to consume fewer sweetened beverages and replace them with healthy water instead. Being in the market for some time already, the Bonafont Mascot brand of Danone Brazil was in
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The “Cool Three” children’s drinks packaging has been re-thought and now offers better recyclability utilising the new, functional label material “EcoFloat” from CCL Label. This floatable polyolefin shrink sleeve label is claimed to enable the underlying PET bottle to be completely recycled. Labels and sleeves play a major role in the
Read moreFlint Group Narrow Web introduces two UV-flexo coating products to improve the recyclability for shrink sleeves and pressure sensitive labels. These coatings are currently available in North America and will soon be available in Europe and other regions. Using different chemistries, the Evolution Deinking Primer, for shrink sleeves, and the Evolution
Read moreDigimarc Corporation, the creator of Digimarc watermarks, driving the next generation of digital identification and detection-based technologies, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the product cloud company Evrythng Limited in a stock transaction. Evrythng is one of the market leaders which pioneered the product cloud category, linking every product
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Avery Dennison announced the release of the AD RDX sustainable product range for paper and film labels. The AD RDX product portfolio for paper and film is claimed to offer benefits such as less materials, resources, waste, transport and storage than conventional Avery Dennison products, which also means less downtime, changeovers
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Sustainability is an issue that has changed from being just a trend to a key part in the business strategy for companies wishing to develop their business, especially manufacturers that use PET for their packaging and operate in the fast moving consumer goods industry, where products have a short life cycle.
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