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Label Maker Spends on Digital Printing
HP WS6600 printing press with in-line priming unit Amberley Labels is investing over £750,000 in ‘the industry’s most versatile and productive digital presses’. This Dorset-based supplier of digitally-printed, self-adhesive labels has installed the HP
Read More »Several Products-In-One’ Adhesive Ousts Two For Tea
The Optimise H99 formula combines a longer open time with a very sharp setting rate, high adhesion, and grab Watton-based KMS Adhesives was recently approached by a quality blender and packer of teas, who wanted
Read More »Group Adopts ‘Bio’ Bags
Biodegradable polyethylene bags are initially being used for bed linen ranges. Other products will follow Now available across John Lewis outlets, following a phased roll out, are several product lines packaged in biodegradable polyethylene.
Read More »Price Increases Blamed on Raw Material Costs
Sun Chemical, ‘the world’s largest producer of printing inks and pigments’, has announced a price increase for its European customers across all product lines. The percentage rise ‘will be in the high single digits
Read More »Trade Bodies Unite Over Carrier Bags
Turner: ‘There’s no evidence to support suggestions that introducing bag charges delivers environmental benefits’ Four major trade associations have joined together to present a united front in lobbying Scottish and UK parliaments and politicians,
Read More »Walking The Talk
THE CONCEPT OF RECYCLING IS EVOLVING by Gordon Shade, CEO, European Metal Packaging (Empac) It is time for a more defined approach. Having come from an agenda driven mostly by the reduction of waste
Read More »Innovation Award to Skanem for Superpeel label!
Skanem was recently awarded the “2012 Oriflame Supplier Award for Best Innovation Initiative” for the Superpeel single ply solution! Skanem was awarded the prize at a supplier conference with Oriflame in Stockholm November 2012.
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Retail Packaging has an ABC certified circulation of 6,339 (audit period 1st Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2016)