Packaging | Flexo printing | Corrugated printing

April 16, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Beneco Packaging’s SoOpak Division earns top pharmaceutical award

Beneco Packaging (Mississauga, Ontario), a leading short-run North American wholesale packaging solutions provider (and its custom packaging division SoOpak), has won a 2018 Best Custom Medical Product Packaging Award from Global Health & Pharma (GHP), a worldwide information-sharing platform and a multi-disciplinary members’ community headquartered in Burton-on-Trent, England. The award is part of the 2018 Pharmaceutical … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

April 3, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Hybrid Software announces new cloud-based tool for HP label and packaging customers

Hybrid Software’s new product for the HP PrintOS community is called PACKZalyzer. PACKZalyzer is based on the powerful tools for PDF analysis and correction from Hybrid’s PACKZ PDF Editor, which have been paired with an intuitive and easy-to-use, cloud-based application to better prepare label and packaging files for production. PACKZalyzer will correct common file-related issues … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

March 29, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Mac Papers adds stretch films to its Castle packaging line

Mac Papers (Jacksonville, Florida) has added stretch films to its Castle packaging products line. The company launched its exclusive Castle brand earlier this year with the introduction of Castle acrylic tape. “We’re extremely pleased to now offer stretch film as part of our Castle brand of packaging products,” said Chris McCabe, Vice President of Packaging … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

March 23, 2018 | Tony Curcio

PPC Spring Conference reveals its speaker line-up

The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC, Springfield, MA) has announced the speaker lineup for its 2018 Spring Outlook and Strategies Conference, April 11-13 in Baltimore, Maryland. “The engaging and inspiring speakers that grace the PPC stage are always a big draw,” said Ben Markens, PPC President. “PPC members come to our meetings to learn how to … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

March 14, 2018 | Tony Curcio

FTA Forum explores the taming of consumer behaviour via packaging design

“Creative design is the most powerful tool a brand owner has to attract a consumer the moment his or her product hits the store shelf. In an industry focused on increasingly complex designs, we tend to lose focus on the importance of stepping into the minds of the consumer through market research,” said the FTA. … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

March 5, 2018 | Tony Curcio

PPC opens registration and reveals speakers for its 2018 Spring Conference April 11-13

The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC, Springfield, MA) has opened registration for its Spring Outlook and Strategies Conference April 11-13, 2018 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Taking place in the heart of Baltimore’s popular inner harbour, the meeting will convene CEOs and executives from both integrated and independent folding-carton and rigid-box manufacturers. The spring event is one of two biannual PPC conferences where the association’s membership … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

March 2, 2018 | Tony Curcio

IntelliPACK Leadership Council names Baldwin and Lee as new co-chairs

IntelliPACK (Ottawa, Ontario), a smart packaging innovation accelerator, has named two new co-chairs for its Leadership Council (LC) as it embarks on the next phase of its growth. IntelliPACK was co-founded by the intelliFLEX Innovation Alliance and PAC Packaging Consortium and their members. IntelliPACK collaborates with supply-chain stakeholders to create awareness, educate and facilitate the … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

February 12, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Worldlabel launches new ecommerce site enhancing usability and mobile friendliness

Worldlabel, a New-York-based convertor of blank sheet labels for laser and inkjet printing, with many clients in Canada, has made its eCommerce website more mobile friendly and more responsive – while offering modernized shopping functions. The changes to its online ordering process were based not just on customer feedback, but on Google’s suggestions to upgrade … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

February 7, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Bobst introduces high-performance vacuum metallizing for packaging

The new Bobst K5 Vision is a vacuum metallizer for flexible packaging converters and CPP/PE film producers that can handle a wide variety of different film types – including heat-sensitive films and thin-gauge substrates. It can run at speeds up to 840m/min., is available in widths from 1,250mm to 2,450mm, and can house roll diameters … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

February 1, 2018 | Tony Curcio

FTA unveils Fall Conference 2018 theme, venue and chair

The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA, Bohemia, New York) has announced that Taking Care of Business will be the official theme of its 2018 Fall Conference. The event, which is expected to attract more than 350 industry professionals, will take place October 29-31 in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Constructing the special track of technical sessions for the … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

January 23, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Point Five Packaging introduces P5-A Automatic Sealing Machine for food packaging

Point Five Packaging, a U.S.-based supplier of Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) equipment and premium packaging solutions for various food industry sectors, has introduced its P5-A Automatic Seal System. Ideal for any food production or packaging environment – and configurable for manual as well as automatic operation – the machine produces vacuum-gas flushed MAP containers, vacuum … Read more →

Packaging & flexo

January 18, 2018 | Tony Curcio

Bacourt and McGowan to share personal and professional success stories in EFI Connect fireside chat keynotes

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has expanded the speaker line-up for its users’ conference, EFI Connect 2018 January 23-26 at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel. On January 23, EFI CEO Guy Gecht will moderate a pair of fireside chat keynotes with two innovative print and packaging industry executives: Eric Bacourt, CEO of Hinojosa Packaging Solutions, and … Read more →