Converting

A little over a month after the coming into force of the new environmental contribution (CAC), the Board of Directors of the Italian National Packaging Consortium has decided to further reduce the CAC for paper and board packaging by 4 euros a ton, that will hence - as of April 1st 2013 - go from 10 to 6 euros a ton.

… but will last 11 days instead of the 14 that up to now placed it among the “longest” shows in the world. The principle print world fair, organized by Messe Duesseldorf GmbH, thus officially communicates the dates of the coming edition in 2016, that will be held from May 31st to June 10th.

Chicago (USA), December 2012 - At the end of November 2012, WPO (World Packaging Organization) signed a cooperation agreement with Ipack-Ima Spa to support and promote the exhibitions East Afripack (9-12 September 2014 - Kenya) and Ipack-Ima (19-23 May 2015 - Italy).

DuPont Packaging Graphics DuPont Packaging Graphics opens new horizons with the innovative Cyrel® FAST DFR flexo plate

«We decided to focus our design and innovation efforts on converting about ten years ago in order to satisfy the requests of our customers», explains Luca Rettore, who together with Mirco Cremasco owns Visonlab (Asolo, TV). Both are experts in artificial vision and acutely aware of the potentials of electronics applied to process and quality control systems.

Seen and awarded: the SpectroPad color spectrophotometer launched at Drupa by Barbieri Electronic (Bressanone, BZ) has already won a prize for innovation, namely the European Digital Press Association (in the photo, the EDP prize handed over to Wolfgang Passler, on the left, and Thomas Liensberger).

Re SpA Controlli Industriali (Bussero, MI) has developed an innovative tension control system called T-four, that is capable of precisely adjusting the tension of increasingly light materials, even at high speeds, both in closed and in open loop systems.

After having established itself on the international market for coating plates with polyurethane printing layer and compressible underplates, Kruse (San Mauro Torinese, TO) has developed new products for users of rubber sheets and rubber plates in coating.

Tarsus Group  has expanded its Labels & Package Printing product portfolio with a brand new event Packprint Summit Middle East.

Alongside the proven Visionlab 100 defect controller, Visionlab proposes two new systems dedicated to the register control for cold seal.

Focus on the new technologies shaping the package printing industry. We met Jan Scharfenberg, Technical Manager, DuPont Packaging Graphics, Europe, Middle East and Africa to get news on new technologies that are helping to meet the challenges into the packaging printing industry.

Conti­Tech Elastomer Coatings and Hell Gravure Systems will work together to improve the materials and machinery used in the direct engraving of plates, making the process of flexo printing even more competitive.

Mack Brooks Exhibitions launches CCE International, a new fair dedicated exclusively to flat and corrugated cardboard, which will take place 19th to 21st March 2013 in Munich and will be staged alongside the 8th edition of ICE Europe, the biggest paper, film and laminate converting event in the world.

Highcon Systems Ltd has signed a commercial and technological cooperation agreement with Esko to integrate Esko ArtiosCAD software (design, packaging product development and the creation of virtual prototypes) with Highcon Euclid, the first machine in the world for digital cutting and creasing.

The global economic crisis has led many companies to review their company and economic policies and to even resize annual investment in machinery and equipment.

LC Electra Evolution has been developed by Irac (Montecavolo di Quattro Castella, RE). This is a horizontal automatic washing machine for photopolymer plates, which integrates original systems to improve the quality of the results and reduce the operator commitment.

Re Controlli Industriali designs and manufactures process automation equipment for manufacturing of laminates, particularly for the converting, paper and cardboard-, wire-, rubber and plastics processing-, textiles and nonwoven industries. Their offer includes systems for machine control, handling, transmission, alignment and vision systems.

Evolution is a new automatic flexo printing drum washing system created built up by Rossini SpA. Performance guaranteed: uniform cleaning of the entire surface of the drum and better print quality without downtime.

Electronic Systems (Momo, NO) produces systems for measurement, inspection and automation for the plastics, coating and rubber as well as hygiene and medical sectors, beyond a range of standard products also providing solutions to industrial problems.

Developed by Polytype Converting AG (Wifag-Polytype Group), the FlexCo system is compact, modular and offers unlimited flexibility in all steps of coating, drying and laminating, performing coating on all web type materials  up to a width of 500 mm.