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Manufacturers of packaging machinery, Bobst announced the worldwide launch of Gyrobox, the first device for the corrugated board industry, which can turn a blank 90 degrees to fold and glue on all four sides in one pass.
In manufacturer Sun Chemical has announced an average 6% price increase across its products, due to continued increases in the costs of raw materials and volatility in the supply chain.
EFI has launched the Jetrion 4900, a UV inkjet digital label press with inline laser finishing unit from SEI Laser Converting, at Labelexpo.
QuadTech has signed an agreement with Mondi, an international paper and packaging Group, to include its inspection technology on the group's sheet-fed corrugated presses that feature in-line die-cutting capability. Central to the agreement will be the installation of QuadTech's Inspection System, which inspects the entire substrate width throughout the production run. The system detects common defects such as hickies, hazing, streaks, misregistrations and color variations. Thanks to high-powered software, which enables the system to follow the operation at a speed of up to 7,000 sheets per hour, the system is capable of the most reliable benchmarking possible, Golden Template comparison. The first pilot installation is planned in December 2011 in Mondi's Bad Rappenau plant.
SMAG Graphique will be presenting new screen printing machines for conventional and digital label converters at Labelexpo Europe, to be held in September this year.
Nilpeter has introduced innovations for offset, flexo, and integrated inkjet printing to be demonstrated at LabelExpo Europe 2011.
From 15th July this year, Kodak will be implementing a global price rise of 7% on all flexographic plates.
DuPont Packaging Graphics has announced the planned start-up of the new Cyrel round manufacturing facility at its Neu-Isenburg, Germany, site in the first quarter of 2012.
Heidelberg has targeted the packaging industry with the launch of the Linoprint DriveLine F UV inkjet printing system at Interpack.
Emaar, The Economic City (EEC), the Tadawul-listed company developing King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Saudi Arabia, announced recently the start of construction of a new manufacturing facility for polypropylene woven fabric by Greif Inc, one of the largest manufacturers of industrial packaging products in the world.
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