A new half-day seminar and networking opportunity, designed for flexographic printers/converters, suppliers and prepress providers will take place at the Timber Ridge Adventure Center Welcome Center, starting on May 20 in Olathe, KS.
The REVO Digital Flexo Revolution collaboration of eight industry leaders has resulted in a new approach to flexo printing that may well delight flexo press owners. AVT, Adare, APEX, Dupont, ESKO, Flint, GIDUE and UPM Raflatac have teamed up to put the flexo printing process under digital control.
GIDUE has been awarded with the Label Global Award for Innovation for the Digital Flexo Excellence Project, the latest revolutionary technology launched by GIDUE for the labels and packaging industry.
Nuova GIDUE S.r.l. will unveil its Food Packaging Program for UV Flexo at Labelexpo Europe. This program has been developed to support label converters in their introduction to the flexible packaging industry.
The economy has not been exactly easy on American industry as of late. And, businesses in the package-printing industry are no exception to those dealing with the difficult times. With consumers and business partners cutting back on spending, it has been a rough few months. Some companies are still doing well, others are struggling, and some are closing their doors.
GIDUE S.p.A., a press manufacturer active in the label and packaging market since 1999, filed for voluntary winding-up on December the 22, 2008.
MILAN, Italy—Nineteen companies of the Flexo4all alliance are organizing a real tour inside the halls of drupa 2008. This year the 19 drupa halls will be overcrowded: more than 2,000 exhibitors and above 400,000 visitors are expected to be in Düsseldorf, May 29 - June 11. To make it easier for visitors to walk around drupa 2008 and find the most relevant booths for their business, Flexo4all, a strategic alliance between leading flexo suppliers born to promote the advantages of flexography in the package printing industry, is preparing a real guided tour to accompany people to the Flexo4all partners’ stands spread out on the
Fiscal anxiety may lead converters to delay press investments and additions. See below for a guide to narrow-web press series and their respective levels of investment. by Jessica Millward, Associate Editor THE "WAIT AND SEE" mentality has descended upon the narrow-web print set and its purse strings. While press manufacturers continued to heighten the graphic sophistication level of narrow-web presses in 2001 with improved press models, many converters may not consider capitalizing on those technology gains until the economic picture comes into focus. Relatively, the narrow-web market is in a much better boat than many other printer segments. Printing Industries of America's (PIA)
