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Keystone Paper & Box Co., a folding carton printer based in South Windsor, Conn., has purchased a Landa S10 Nanographic printing press. The press is Keystone's first digital press, and the company expects to move between 50% to 60% of its jobs to the Landa S10.

Landa Digital Printing, the largest of the Landa Group's 18 companies, has announced the appointment of Asher Levy to the position of active chairman. The appointment of Levy, who previously served as CEO of electronics company Orbotech, coincides with Yishai Amir stepping down as CEO of Landa Digital Printing.

Digital corrugated production printing burst on the scene around 2016, and has been on the rise since then. Karstedt Partners, a packaging industry research and consulting firm, has been benchmarking digital corrugated production and has released the first installment of the three-part report.

At the 2019 Digital Packaging Summit, a panel of three converters spanning multiple packaging segments discussed their experiences with digital package printing and the added value it brings to their customers. Listen in to some of their commentary here.

Jacki Hudmon, senior VP, sales and marketing, Komori America, offers insights into Komori's multiple digital offerings and the impact they are poised to have on the packaging industry.

The fifth-annual Digital Packaging Summit — the largest ever edition of the event — addressed all four major segments of the packaging industry and how package printers from across the board can benefit from all that digital printing and converting technology have to offer.

“Connected automation” is at the forefront of Komori’s latest developments in offset and digital printing, and was on display at a recent event in Yamagata, Japan.

During the 2019 Digital Packaging Summit, Steve Powers, sales director for North America, labels and packaging, HP Indigo, shared how HP has taken a leadership position in digital printing for labels and packaging with its diverse portfolio that addresses all packaging segments. 

The Fogra Research Institute for Media Technologies determined the EFI Nozomi C18000 LED inkjet corrugated printer to be the leading single-pass corrugated production device in terms of energy efficiency, according to the ISO 20690 standard.

Utah PaperBox installed a Fujifilm J Press 720S at its Salt Lake City facility and experienced an immediate boost in sales. The company is now able to meet client demand for "test market" boxes in runs upwards of 5,000 pieces, which wouldn't have been financially feasible on its previous offset press.