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Avery Dennison officially opened its expanded production facility at the Rodange plant in Luxembourg, completing a $65 million project to strengthen its European manufacturing footprint. The previously announced investment is one of Avery Dennison’s largest operational initiatives globally in recent years. The expansion incorporates a state of the art, multi-capability coater,
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An innovation from Avery Dennison that is intended to enable closed-loop PET recycling has won this year’s FINAT Recycling and Sustainability award. The CleanFlake portfolio is claimed to enable production of high quality recycled PET (rPET) from post-consumer bottles while maintaining all-important visual impact and food contact approval. The portfolio is
Read moreThe 3rd edition of Blow Moulding (Cologne, June 24-26) will bring together the entire supply chain: brand owners, retailers, packaging companies, blow-moulders, preform manufacturers, suppliers of ancillary components such as labels, caps and closures, handles and grips, machinery manufacturers, raw material and additive suppliers, product and mould designers, testing, certification and
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Alpla Caribe and Fortiflex Inc. signed a strategic alliance back in 2018, thereby creating a contractual basis for an interim solution. The aim is for them to establish themselves as the preferred packaging producer in the Caribbean and in Central America. Alpla and Fortiflex first collaborated in 2017 in the wake
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P.E. Labellers has reached an important milestone: 45 years of activity for a company that carved out for itself a leading role at global level in the manufacture of labelling machines, offering the most complete range of types of machinery and technologies used. The company’s growth has been characterised by a
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SACMI Hall 4.1 Booth C41 Italian packaging machinery manufacture Sacmi offers five reasons for visitors to Chinaplas to visit its stand. It will be displaying a CCM 48 SD continuous compression moulding press, one of 23 solutions recently supplied to Hebei Red Hat Plastic Co., Ltd, the Chinese packaging giant. The
Read moreSumitomo (SHI) Demag Hall B1, Stand 1105 ElExis SP 200 with high-speed IML application “The fourth generation El-Exis SP is still the fastest injection moulding machine in the world,“ says Arnaud Nomblot, Director Business Development Packaging at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag. Two years after its launch, he is still happy with the
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The Martens brewery in Belgium is using Direct Print technology by KHS and, together with a French supermarket chain, is placing specially designed bottles on the shelves for the soccer World Cup. To mark the big kick-off in Moscow, Belgium’s Brouwerij Martens is offering its premium beer in 32 country-specific bottle
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Multi-Color Corporation announces a strategic partnership with Talkin’ Things, a smart packaging system. This system enables brands to communicate with consumers, protect against counterfeiting, track products throughout the supply chain, and much more #RethinkPackaging – With this agreement, MCC and Talkin’ Things have established a strategic partnership to raise awareness among
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Drinktec Hapa In partnership with two partners, Sacmi (Hall B5, Stand 302) and IMD (Hall B5, Stand 115), two Hapa “redcube plus” UV DOD digital printing modules will be showcased. Integrated into a Sacmi bottle-labelling line, a “redcube plus” will CMYK print on labels which afterwards will be applied on bottles.
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Drinktec Constantia Flexibles, Hall A2 – Stand 325 Constantia Flexibles will be showcasing their products from around the world. Visitors can see the company’s latest innovations and get a glimpse of the current trends taking hold of the labelling industry. Amongst the company’s exhibits are: Mass Individualisation Mass individualisation allows printing
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