C&T Channel Matrix (C&T), the world's leading manufacturer of creasing matrix and ejection rubber for the corrugated industry, has noticed a trend to move towards lightweight and recycled corrugated and packaging liners, as the packaging industry strives to reduce the weight of packaging and save on raw materials. This can give advantages in terms of cost and sustainability, but there can also be technical issues with light-weighting leading to problems and downtime in production.

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions, will highlight its extensive portfolio of cutting-edge sensor and imaging solutions at Automate 2024.

EMT International, a leading supplier of finishing equipment to the digital print, label and packaging industries announces a new customer installation aligned with its strategy to bring innovative digital finishing solutions to the marketplace. Heeter has installed an EMT RF Series Chameleon digital processing system. The RF series leverages highly customizable punch and perforating capabilities, which Heeter is using for processing coil-bound flip books and other applications.

Re S.p.A., an innovative leader in the printing and packaging industry, has announced its participation in drupa, the world’s leading trade fair for printing technologies, to be held in Düsseldorf, from 28 May to 7 June, 2024. After an eight-year wait, this year’s event takes on special significance for Re S.p.A., coinciding with the company’s 50th anniversary, a journey from what began in a small basement in Milan to a multinational company.

Xaar’s printheads and technologies formed part of the recent launch of Nilpeter’s new North American Technology & Educational Center at the Open House at its Cincinnati Headquarters.
The state-of-the-art center highlights Nilpeter’s comprehensive product portfolio, including flexo, digital, and value-added technologies. As part of this, Xaar’s printbar was integrated into Nilpeter’s FA-17, enabling digital varnish and foiling embellishment capabilities through Xaar’s unique High Laydown Technology.

Paper Machine 1 (PM1), which specialises in the production of security papers, has been operating with a new film press since February. The €1.9 million investment replaced the existing size press. The planning and realisation of this project took 12 months in total.

The catalogue becomes an inspirational interactive magazine
Creativity and innovation have always been an integral part of Guandong's DNA. A common theme that lies not only in the development of cutting-edge products and materials, developed to meet, if not actually anticipate emerging needs, but also in the creation of new tools that the Specialities Specialist makes available to the market with the aim of inspiring and "creating culture".

Sun Chemical announces its ongoing collaboration with packaging solutions company, Cardbox Packaging. Sun Chemical is supplying Cardbox with SunPak® FSP EcoPace sheetfed, low migration inks for high productivity, high speed folding carton printing and for its SunHub compact ink dispenser at their Austria site.

Use of these sustainable plates to print labels for PET bottles is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 30% compared to the previous process.
Asahi Kasei Corp., headquartered in Tokyo which is the parent company of Asahi Photoproducts, today announced that Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd., also headquartered in Tokyo, has switched to AWP™ water-washable flexographic plates for the printing of beverage labels in Japan on their 550 ml PET bottles.

The new equipment will help Antalis’ Smart Packaging Centre (SPC) to design packaging with better performance values and, ultimately, less material.
Antalis Packaging has added a burst test machine and two new corrugate-testing machines at its Leicestershire-based SPC to help customers to further evaluate current or new packaging solutions.

The clock is winding down on the entry deadline for this year’s Colored by INX Can Design Contest. Open to all brand owners, metal decorators, design agencies and marketers who used the INX Color Catalog to produce a commercial can design before January 1, 2024, all entries with the submission form, electronic design, and actual printed can must be postmarked no later than April 29.

Toyo Ink Europe Specialty Chemicals S.A.S., a member of the artience group (formerly Toyo Ink Group), a Japan-based chemicals manufacturer, announced today that it, together with its sister subsidiaries Toyocolor Co., Ltd. (Japan), Toyo Ink India Pvt. Ltd. and Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. (China), will be jointly featuring inkjet technology at drupa 2024, the international printing fair held in Dusseldorf, Germany.