Fitting Your Flexographic Press to Your Commodity or Value-Added Business Model
Some segments of flexible packaging have become a commodity business with low margins, multiple SKUs and shorter runs, all of which impact the cost to compete in a changing landscape. This has some printers looking to “value-added” attractions that improve their ability to stand out in the crowded grocery aisles. Those same differentiating factors offer […]
Kodak Launches the Global Flexo Innovation Awards 2018
ROCHESTER, NY—Kodak is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its KODAK FLEXCEL NX System by launching the Kodak Global Flexo Innovation Awards to recognize innovative, game-changing packaging, and emphasize creativity at its best. Kodak reports that many of its customers are leveraging the unique capabilities of FLEXCEL NX Plates to drive growth through the conversion of […]
Nestlé Aiming at 100% Recyclable or Reusable Packaging by 2025
VEVEY, Switzerland—Nestlé announced its ambition to make 100 percent of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimize the impact of packaging on the environment. Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said, “Plastic […]
Nestlé Aiming at 100% Recyclable or Reusable Packaging by 2025
VEVEY, Switzerland—Nestlé announced its ambition to make 100 percent of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimize the impact of packaging on the environment. Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said, […]
Sun Chemical Launches SunCure Accuflex UV Flexo Ink System
PARSIPPANY, NJ—Sun Chemical has launched SunCure Accuflex UV, a new UV ink system for primary and secondary food packaging that is not manufactured with Bisphenol A (BPA)-based materials and meets low migration specifications. Compliant with the strictest global standards in the marketplace, including Nestlé food packaging requirements and Swiss Ordinance chemical composition requirements, SunCure Accuflex […]
Bobst to Showcase New CI Flexo Press at Open House Feb. 27 & 28
BIELEFELD, Germany—Bobst has organized a networking open house event that will take place Feb. 27 and 28 in the Competence Center of the Bobst Bielefeld production facility in Germany, the Bobst Center of Excellence for web-fed CI flexo technology. The event will be focusing on the 7-color extended color gamut (ECG) process, and will showcase […]
OMET Americas, Inc. Hosts Printing Technology & Innovation Days for Students
Over the next four years, roughly half of U.S. businesses will lose 10 percent to 20 percent of their workforce due to retirement, according to a June 2016 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That same report also predicts that by 2022, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce will be 55 […]
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