Ancient House Printing Group, a family owned business based in Ipswich, was first established in 1845 as a book-selling and printing business in the historic building known as 'The Ancient House'. Rapid expansion saw the company divest the book-selling business, and then in 1985 move to its existing premises on an industrial estate just outside Ipswich where it is now spread over two buildings.
THIEME GmbH & Co. KG, the leading manufacturer of screen printing machines, with headquarters in Teningen, Germany, has developed a new generation of screen printing multi-colour lines. The series THIEME 5000 L, which is based on the proven THIEME multi-colour technology, offers the user the highest printing performance.
Web offset printing presses stretch thin films during the printing process; the films behave like a rubber band that has been pulled tight. Muller Martini has now developed StretchCorrectTM to ensure that the printing image is the correct length. Thanks to this new package, the Alprinta V web offset printing press guarantees that the printing image is the correct length, even for materials with variable elasticity.
Griffin Digital waited patiently for a fully inline, automated book printing solution and is now reaping the rewards of crucial price point margins in short-run and on-demand digital book printing.
Griffin Digital, a subsidiary of Griffin Press, is Australia's leading supplier of short–run books to publishers and authors. Based in Adelaide, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and London, the company has significant expertise in short–run digital production, helping mass or niche publishers get new titles and reprints to market quickly.
New Karlville KSPQ Provides Specialty Packaging Technologies With Rapid Change Over Technology for Increased Efficiencies
Specialty Packaging Technologies, Inc., poised to be the leading flexible packaging manufacturer, today announced the purchase of Karlville's first and only KSPQ hybrid pouching machine that is revolutionizing the flexible packaging industry. Specialty Packaging Technologies (SPT) focuses on customized premade pouches, including spouted pouches, and the new KSPQ pouching machine allows for quicker changeover and increased efficiencies from both economic and versatility standpoints.
Concrete producers also benefit from condensed package size
BASF today announced new packaging for its Master Builders Solutions brand MasterFiber MAC Matrix macrosynthetic fiber that allows for enhanced performance in concrete. The sophisticated packaging condenses the fibers in an aligned format, improving their dispersion in the concrete mixture compared to traditional loose fiber packaging.
Matrix, powered by Pro Mach, now offers laser scoring and marking combined in one system on the Inever BY300 multilane stickpack machine. The BY300 is ideal for low-to-medium production of quality stickpack seals of dosing powders, granules, solids, liquids, and pastes with minimal investment required. (See the BY300 at EastPack, June 10-12, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, Booth #3025.)
A patented CO2 laser-based system, with an estimated operating life exceeding 45,000 hours, performs both scoring and marking operations.
Rexam, the global beverage can maker and number one in South America, recently worked with Devassa Brewery to launch a collectable range of beverage cans to promote their partnership with the movement #RIOEUTEAMO (Rio I Love You).
The new labels use Rexam's EditionsTM Super Premium technology which allowed the production of seven different labels made by a combination of the brand name, Davassa and photos of the landscape of Rio de Janeiro.
Adelcoco, a company specialising in coconut-based products with more than ten years' experience in the market, has recently launched a new can design for its coconut water.
By Roberto Mercati
Meet José Antonio Larroy, owner of GraficaZ, a family-owned company specializing in printing self-adhesive and shrink labels in Zaragoza, Spain, and his daughter Jessica who with two assistant engineers from the Italian company Lombardi Ltd. in Brescia are carrying out the final inspection on the 8-color flexographic rotary Synchroline before shipment.
