Weber Packaging Solutions has created the Model 141-P, a semi-automatic label applicator for applying pressure-sensitive labels to cylindrical products; combined with Epson’s C7500 color ink jet printer, it allows a customer to print razor sharp high-resolution labels and apply them to products via a loose-loop configuration. Users only print the number of labels needed, making…
Swiss packaging group Tetra Pak has introduced a new dry lubrication solution for packaging line conveyor belts and distribution equipment. Part of the company’s technical services portfolio, the solution helps to reduce water and electricity consumption, as well as the manpower and time required for machine maintenance. Using the new Tetra Pak Dry Lubrication kit, producers can also…
Press supplier Koenig & Bauer Group (KBA) has revealed it is in the final stages of development for its record-setting 43 metres long KBA Rapida 145 57-inch press, a machine it says is the longest large format press in the market. The press is slated for installation at Italian packaging giant IPI, delivered directly from…
Ghee or clarified butter is an unmistakably important condiment of South Asian cuisine. Conventionally ghee has been marketed in poly- pouched pillow packs, cartons or tin cans. These types of packaging are functionally not very user-friendly and are thus losing out on both pace and steam in the modern retail arena. Poly pouches are surface…
Canon recently unveiled its ImagePress series, introducing of three new presses aimed at small-to-medium printers eyeing digital sheet fed machines. According to Canon, the three ImagePress printers which include the C850, C750 and C650 models are engineered the meet the requirements of small-to-medium commercial, franchise, in-plant, transactional and quick printers. The devices operate at print…
Konica Minolta Business Solutions India recently announced that the company will be leveraging its world-class printing technology by introducing a new digital solution for the label and packaging industry. The bizhub PRESS C71cf will benefit businesses as they transition from conventional printing to digital technology. This digital press is the first of many new products…
Zircon Technologies installed new Omet at one of the two plants in Dehradun. The company also has a plant in Chennai. Besides, the Omet presses, Zircon plants are equipped with five Mark Andy narrow web flexo printing presses in operations, a screen printing setup, plus Rotoflex inspection, slitting and rewind systems as part of its post-press…
Ardagh Group has continued its productive and highly creative relationship with Absolut with the launch of its latest limited edition bottle, Absolut Facet. Ardagh designers and technologists, working closely with their customer, have achieved outstanding innovation in glass packaging by developing a new colour and shape to create this unique blue bottle featuring an asymmetric…
Zander, a German specialty paper producer is expanding its portfolio by Zanpack, a new range of boards with a special surface and extremely pure whiteness, which will bring out the full intensity and brilliance of printing inks. The decades-long experience in perfecting high-performance coating technologies has been incorporated into the development of the new board…
Konica Minolta, a well-known digital printing brand recently introduced its new Printing Press, the bizhub PRO 1100. Konica Minolta which has recently made a distinctive position in the Production Printing Market in India claims that the new bizhub PRO 1100 will outperform in all business environments. The bizhub PRO 1100 series offer a monochrome digital printing press making it ideal for…
