Israeli digital cutting systems developer Highcon has filed for bankruptcy protection, and laid off most of its staff, as it faces liquidity issues and postponed orders, as a result it says of the US tariffs. Read more
Packaging solutions developer Bobst has revealed its latest portfolio of products and services, for converters and brand owners “to navigate through a new packaging environment”.
Leading label print business Peacock Bros. has entered the folding carton market, with the acquisition of AMR Hewitts, the specialist pharmaceutical and food print and packaging operation.
Flexo, offset and digital operation Detpak is developing fibre-based packaging alternatives for its clients, as it leads the charge away from plastic packaging, with its own innovative solutions.
Trimatt Systems took out the Australian Machinery Manufacturing Award – SME at the APPMA Awards of Excellence, with managing director Matt Johnson hailing the efforts of his team at the celebration event.
Custom box making and printing business Pakko has won the national 2022 Telstra Best of Business Awards Progressing Australia Award, which recognises owner Nina Nguyen's commitment to creating a blueprint for a manufacturing renaissance in Australia.
Print21 publisher Lindy Hughson moderated two conference sessions at major trade show IPACK-IMA in Milan last week, as part of the Packaging Speaks Green conference which ran alongside the expo.
Surging growth at global packaging print giant Amcor saw it achieve a 16 per cent rise in sales revenue in the third quarter, with the company's sales result for the first nine months of the year topping US$10bn, as all its figures beat estimates.
Global digital flexible packaging phenomenon ePac opened its new $10m Australian site today, the latest in its growing list of facilities it has built around the world in the last six years.
Graffica, supplier of premium equipment and services to the packaging and point-of-sale industries, will be exhibiting in-house box making solutions, along with other packaging equipment, at PacPrint in June.
Sun Chemical has collaborated with HP to launch sustainable flexible packaging, produced with HP’s Indigo digital press and Sun Chemical’s new solventless lamination solution SunLam.
O F Packaging's gravure and flexo printed kerbside recyclable Muesli Pouch for Brookfarm has won the best-of-the-best Diamond award, at the prestigious Dow 2021 Packaging Innovation Awards.
Digital flexible packaging operation ePac has installed a second digital flexible printing and pouchmaking line, less than six months after opening for business with its first.
Graffica, supplier of premium equipment and services to the packaging and point-of-sale industries, will be exhibiting its best in-house box making solutions, along with other packaging equipment, at PacPrint.
Heidelberg is entering into a worldwide distribution agreement with the Japanese company AN Corporation for the Kawahara TXS-1100 and Kawahara BMS-1100 automated postpress systems.
EFI is bringing a new version of its Nozomi press to market, the EFI Nozomi 14000 LED, which it says is a ultra high speed inkjet solution for corrugated printing, aimed at a broader swathe of the industry.
Esko has appointed Kissel + Wolf to distribute its range of packaging prepress software, including the world’s most popular structural design software for packaging, ArtiosCAD.