HP today announced that Kingsway Printers, of Humberston, Lincolnshire, has installed an HP Indigo press ws4500 and an AB Graphic Omega Digicon Series 2 finishing unit to create an end-to-end digital label and flexible packaging production capability.Established in 1972, the family-run company is the latest in a number of medium size label converters who have [...]
Label printer Sessions of York has been put up for sale by the Sessions family after 198 years of business.
Chairman and managing director Mark Sessions told local paper The Press that as he is approaching retirement age, he has decided to put the business up for sale.
via Label printer Sessions of York put up for [...]
One of the most notable changes in the converting industry in recent years has been the shift to shorter print runs. You might expect this trend to play into the hands of manual and semi-automatic die-cutting machines, as they are suited to short run-lengths. Instead it has fuelled greater innovation in the area of high [...]
Nice to see some good news! (Martin)
The Label Store UK has revealed a significant uplift in turnover as it gears up to open a new manufacturing unit in the next month.
The label manufacturer and auto-ID specialist is close to opening the doors to a new 1,700sqm manufacturing unit next door to its existing units in [...]
This appears to be more about labelling than wide web print, but still pretty astonishing. Is this another nail in gravure’s coffin? (Martin)
Packstar (USA), which has maintained a dedicated relationship with Kodak GCG throughout the years, has expanded upon its flexo-print capabilities with use of its Kodak FLEXCEL NX Digital Flexographic System. With the addition [...]
Label stock prices in the UK have risen by as much as 21% since the start of the year as the material’s key suppliers look to recoup high raw materials costs and mitigate the effect of the weak pound.
Avery Dennison Roll Materials’ UK label stock prices have risen by 21% since January to help offset [...]
Canadian converter Associated Labels helps build water well in Kagulu, Uganda, to provide clean drinking water, and water source for mud-brick manufacturing.
via World Water Day: Labelmaker completes African water-well project – 3/17/2009 – Converting Magazine.
FINAT, the global trade association for the self-adhesive label industry, is calling in an expert on trade development in other industries to give members hints to develop their own companies in the face of the recession.
Erkut Uludag, an expert on the automotive, aerospace and telecommunications industries, will be a keynote speaker at FINAT’s annual conference, [...]
Fearnley-Whittingstall reveals winning Tesco chicken label design | packagingnews.co.uk.
Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has announced the winner of his Chicken Out competition to design a new label for Tesco standard chicken.
The campaign followed Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too programme that aired in January and an online poll that found 75% believed Tesco had the most [...]
