April 4, 2016,  TANZANIA • The company held their first Flexofit seminar in Dar Es Salaam, on the 17th of March. Presentations on the latest developments in flexo printing from international industry experts from printing industry companies like Chespa, DuPont, Esko, Tesa, Renzmann and Windmöller & Hölscher were held in front of an expert audience from… → read more

April 1, 2016,  GERMANY • In January 2016, Anncharlott Michel joined the international sales team of Herma’s self-adhesive materials division, where she manages customer accounts in Scandinavia, Southern Europe, and Central Eastern Europe. From 2012 to 2015, the business administration graduate pursued her degree at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative… → read more

March 31, 2016,  UK • Paul Doody has been appointed global marketing director at Domino Printing Sciences. The role will see him to define and drive effective marketing campaigns for the coding and marking company. Paul’s subsequent move to Linx Printing Technologies in 1998 saw him accrue a number of key marketing responsibilities over the course of… → read more

March 31, 2016,  THE NETHERLANDS • The international association for the self-adhesive label industry has opened its third annual Recycling Awards program for entries. The deadline for submitting entries is May 6, and the awards ceremony will be held on the opening night of the second European Label Forum in Amsterdam on June 16-18. The goal of the Finat… → read more

March 30, 2016,  THE NETHERLANDS • The company will host an Open-House at their headquarters in Arnhem during drupa 2016, held May 31st to June 10th in Düsseldorf, Germany. Visitors attending the event will be presented live demonstrations of the EF multi-substrate flexo press, EB label solution press, and new hybrid EF SYMJET flexo/digital press with an… → read more

March 29, 2016,  THE NETHERLANDS • MPS customer Takara Pac was recently named award winner in the flexo colour process category of the 2015 L9 World Label Awards competition for their label  “Cherry Body Soap”. The winning label of the Japanese company was printed on an MPS full servo eight-colour flexo press. Designed with a cartoon fairy-tale effect,… → read more

March 29, 2016,  AUSTRIA • On 16 March, the Ferry Porsche Congress Center in Zell am See saw the award ceremony of the coveted Golden Label Award. An international jury of experts evaluated almost 100 labels in a two-stage procedure. Taking into account six assessment criteria, the jury determined the best labels in the four categories beer & shandy;… → read more

March 28, 2016,  CHINA • More than 100 guests attended the ceremony celebrating the launch of the manufacturing facility in Fengpu, in the Fengxian District south of Shanghai. To ensure supply of functional components and labels, Schreiner ProTech now launched its own production operation, five years after having opened a sales office in Shanghai. During a… → read more

March 25, 2016,  GERMANY • The company introduced a completely resin-free adhesive for labels that require extremely strong initial tack. Since migration is determined by the adhesive’s resin content, the new HERMAsuperTack (63Vst) offers especially low migration levels. It features correction factor 2, and thereby reaches the unconditional approval for dry,… → read more

March 24, 2016,  ITALY • The company will host an Open-House to introduce their hybrid printing solutions. The event will take place at Omet’s headquarters at Lecco on Thursday, 14 April. On display will be the XFlex X6 JetPlus hybrid digital/flexo printing solution. The event is free of admission but subject to prior registration. To confirm participation… → read more