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July 18, 2005
The Future of Labels and Labelling for the European Market, published in the UK by Pira International, covers the years from 1995 to 2000 and predicts events up to 2003. A reader will discover quickly that the European labeling markets are in a state…
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July 18, 2005
Xeikon is now
a protected species
Digital printing may be a hot topic, but it’s not just users who need deep pockets and strong nerves. Investors in Xeikon, for example, have their own anxious moments. Its subsidiary Xeikon France w…
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July 18, 2005
SE Labels acquired
by Scandinavian group
Skanem Industries, a Norwegian-based packaging company, has its sights on SE Labels. With a turnover of over $170 million, the SE group is arguably Europe’s largest producers of self-adhesive…
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July 18, 2005
Digital printing is evolving fast and the latest technical options could signal a greater involvement among converters. It is also creating some unlikely partnerships among suppliers. One of the latest brings together Mark Andy and Barco Graphics&rsq…
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July 18, 2005
Window on annual paper
and film label stock trends
The European Pressure Sensitive Manufacturers Association’s (EPSMA) annual report always provides a useful snapshot of the European self-adhesive label market. And 2000 may prove t…
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July 18, 2005
Milk supplier takes
the wrap-around option
Stretch-sleeve polyethylene labels now have a large share of the highly competitive beverage markets, especially soft drinks and mineral waters, throughout Europe and North America. Like shrink…
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July 18, 2005
Simple, yet effective
carton cutting
The best ideas are the simplest, especially when someone has applied some lateral thinking to a seemingly unchangeable principle. A good example comes from Gerhardt International Group, based in…
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July 18, 2005
Although rumors abounded, Avery Dennison’s proposed
acquisition of Jackstädt — its former Germanbased
rival — still signals the most surprising event
to have hit the pressure sensitive materials industry in…
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July 18, 2005
Merger mania takes hold
One takeover that really came out of the blue was
Hewlett-Packard’s decision to acquire Indigo. As a technology
partner, it already had a 13.4 percent shareholding
of Indigo. Subject to the usual…
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July 18, 2005
Packaging a novel repro service
The old certainties about label converting, with its relatively
good growth and margins, are changing fast. At its
most extreme level, globalized trading and communication
systems are altering t…
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July 18, 2005
Recovery reported
for UK materials consumption
The UK is the largest user of self-adhesive labeling material
in Europe. After three successive quarters of disappointing
growth, the Pressure Sensitive Manufacturers
Associ…
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July 18, 2005
An ability to produce linerless labels could be a timely
development for UK label converters if some proposed
government legislation is adopted. It all stems
from the fact that siliconized release liners in the cradle-tograve…
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July 18, 2005
Launch of all-in-one
linerless UV flexo press
Perhaps some of these converters should take an interest
in the Webmaster 2400. It’s a UV flexo press with a difference:
It can produce linerless labels. Introduced at Labele…
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November 30, -0001
Reports of my death,” wrote Mark Twain on one occasion, “are greatly exaggerated.” In a similar vein, Netherlands based label press manufacturer MPS, about whose future rumors were circulating, has just issued a statement saying tha…
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November 30, -0001
Label presses from Brazil
The Grafitec Group in Northern England buys, refurbishes and sells used label presses, as well as manufacturing several ranges of printing and carton converting machinery. Now Grafitec has signed a partnership to marke…
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