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Sun Chemical Launches Xennia Jade Pigment Ink for Direct-to-Film Market

Elena Knight from FuturePrint interviews a young intern from Archipelago.

At FuturePrint Tech: Packaging and Labels, which took place in Valencia, Spain, on the 28th and 29th of February, FuturePrint spoke to Alberto Cabello Morales from Grabalfa about the company’s experience using Real Substrate Proof.

In 1942, BOBST delivered the first folder-gluer, the PCR 382, to clients in Switzerland and France. Today, the company celebrates a historic eight decades of progress and development.

Two BOBST Open Houses taking place simultaneously will enable even more people to see our sustainability-ready technology first-hand.

Highcon’s Juergen Freier looks at the continued evolution of digital finishing in an ever-evolving packaging landscape.

Nova Label Co., Inc., a manufacturer of quality, pressure sensitive labels in Cheverly, Maryland, installed a Colordyne 3800 Series UV – Retrofit to expand the markets it can serve.

As we look to minimize logistic challenges and begin reintroducing more versioned products, the digitalization of packaging production can play a key role in successfully achieving these goals.

At the FuturePrint Tech Fest in June, Nick Copeland, R&D Director, Barrier Solutions at BOBST, presented a keynote session on Global Megatrends in Packaging Materials and the Advance to Sustainability.

Meteor Inkjet Ltd, leading supplier of electronics, software, tools and services for industrial inkjet, expands office, lab and manufacturing space to meet strong market demand for its products and services.

The Sihl Group is taking the next step on its transformation journey into becoming a modern technology company: On September 1, 2021, Stefan Benito will assume the new position of Vice President Commercial for EMEA and APAC.

At virtual.drupa 21 earlier this year, Francois Martin, Global Marketing Director of BOBST outlined some of the ways in which sustainability in packaging is achievable, and how we can start making it a reality today. Yes, packaging production needs to be more sustainable and there is no reason why the solutions already at our disposal can’t be more widely implemented today. Yes, new innovations will continue to develop but we need to act now with what we already can rely on.

If you are a narrow web converter interested in UV LED curing, this article will explain why LED technology is the right choice for all label and package printing applications. We will start by highlighting all the benefits brought to converters when they upgrade from traditional mercury UV curing to Phoseon LED technology. We will also discuss why UV LED outperforms for some of the more challenging applications such as opaque whites, dense blacks and metallic, laminating and cold foil adhesives.

Colordyne Technologies started offering narrow-web label and tag inkjet printing solutions over ten years ago. During the past year, the company added a new division and focus, empowering strategic integration partners (SIPs) to add inkjet to their product portfolios. Colordyne’s inkjet experience and expertise allow the company to help others bring digital solutions to market faster and with lower development costs.

Impresos Gráficos de Chihuahua is a 26-year-old printing company in northern Mexico that manufactures and prints adhesive labels, PVC films for heat-shrinked sleeves, thermal tags, and other commercial printed products. The company prints approximately 300,000 labels a day.

The FuturePrint Leaders Summit is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of March, where global leaders in print technology will offer insight, opinion and a vision for the future as the world emerges, a new market materialises, and new opportunities are revealed. Pascal Juery has been Chief Executive Officer of the Agfa-Gevaert Group since February 1, 2020. He describes his aim as ‘to continue the transformation of Agfa in the digital world’. We caught up with him ahead of his Leaders Summit interview.

The third virtual FuturePrint event organised by FM Future delivered once again with quality content and an impressive global attendance of delegates from across the print spectrum. With a focus on the theme of adaptability with technology, the event showcased updates from many of the worlds leading innovators in digital printing technology.