Print and Packaging

Our aim here at Holmen Iggesund has always been to work closely with brands and other partners across the value chain. To advance this further, we have created a new department. Showcasing how its collaborative approach will help meet customer needs, the Future Packaging department is developing packaging with exciting new fibre-based concepts.

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The company is revving up for ProPak Asia, Southeast Asia’s biggest beverage and food packaging fair. On show: ready-to-market solutions that reduce the weight of the neck-cap system and, in the aluminum caps sector, everything needed for a successful PVC-free transition

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Aquapak Polymers, the material technologies business which has developed HydropolTM, a polymer based on PVOH, has joined The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX)1 initiative – a collaboration of over 180 European companies, associations and organisations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging2. Its mission is to make all flexible packaging in Europe circular by 2025.

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The Eurostars-project combined PulPac’s unique fiber-forming technology with new components from the plastic industry and its potential to operate with fibers sourced from agricultural residues – provided by BIO-LUTIONS – has been successfully validated with exciting results and will be introduced into the market during the later part of 2023.

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Xeikon America, Inc. today announced that two of its flagship Xeikon SX30000 digital printing presses have been purchased by HM Document Solutions, a large full-service printing, mailing and digital services provider. The new machines will be installed shortly at HMDS’ Pittsburgh, PA. and Jacksonville, FL. facilities.

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By Filip Weymans
Litograf is a label printer with a clear mission: invest in technologies that enable clients to decrease costs, increase quality, and bring innovation to their label production. Completing their hybrid setup with the Xeikon CX300 and the Xeikon PX30000 digital print technologies enables Litograf to produce high-end label applications with the look and quality needed to enhance the product – and the overall impact of their client’s marketing campaigns.

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C&T Channel Matrix (C&T), a world leading supplier of die consumables and creasing matrix as well as innovative machinery for die making, has announced that it has standardised the colour of all PVC creasing matrix base material to a blue colour to achieve sustainability targets and increase production efficiency.

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Finnish beauty brand LUMENE is the first to launch a biobased packaging application with both the jar and label made with UPM’s innovative wood-based material, further processed by SABIC.

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UPM Raflatac’s ambition is to be the first label materials company beyond fossils. The company takes climate action by increasing the use of certified papers and the traceability of other biobased materials, by fostering a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and by developing innovative solutions that meet the needs of sustainably minded brands and companies.

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In its 61st year, the leading trade fair for advertising technology, signage, large-format and super-large-format as well as textile printing is once again presenting some new areas. These reflect above all the changes we are experiencing both technically and socially. By Sabine Slaughter

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