Valmet will supply an extensive paper machine grade conversion rebuild with a wide scope of automation and services for Cascades’ Bear Island mill in Virginia, the United States. In the project, paper machine PM 1, designed to produce newspaper, will be rebuilt to produce high-quality, lightweight, 100 percent recycled linerboard and medium grades for the North American market. The start-up of the rebuilt paper machine is scheduled for the end of 2022.
Eastman Kodak Company announces a partnership with Pigment.inc B.V Europe to distribute Kodak’s KODACOLOR EDTG Series Direct to Garment (DTG) inks.
The KODACOLOR EDTG Series inks from Kodak were explicitly designed for direct-to-fabric printing on cotton, cotton blends, and polyester fabrics. They are equally adept at printing direct to finished garments or to roll fabrics. This water-based ink is designed to work in digital printers that employ piezo-electric printheads and operates at a very high level of nozzle performance among printheads requiring low viscosity inks.
With Industry 4.0 making it easier to drive operational efficiencies with wireless cellular connectivity, Alfa Laval is introducing the Alfa Laval CM, a condition monitoring system for rotating equipment, to its portfolio of sensing and control products. The new CM is another step forward in a digital transformation journey that Alfa Laval is pioneering with customers to harness the power of digital data for the hygienic processing industries.
The proven reliability and performance of the Xaar 128 printhead is central to the new MapleJet Hx Cartro printer, enabling it to deliver the precision and connectivity today’s Coding and Marking customers’ demand.
Stora Enso is investing EUR 14 million to build a granulation and packing plant for lignin, allowing easier packing and handling of lignin compared to powder and wet form. According to Stora Enso’s strategy, lignin is one of the key innovation areas for delivering growth on new applications, such as energy storage, binders and carbon fiber. The granulation plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill in Finland.
• 145 μm scratch-resistant, coated PP film
• Environmentally friendly thanks to PVC and solvent-free manufacturing and the use of a water-based adhesive
• Ideal for Indigo and water-based inks
• No residual static charge after printing with HP Indigo technology
• The same gloss level on printed and unprinted surface
Sun Chemical has further enhanced its online troubleshooting guide by adding potential solutions to common pressroom challenges in coldset and metal package printing processes.
Designed to help customers resolve common technical defects that can arise during a press run, the troubleshooting guide already offered solutions to help customers solve any challenge they may be facing with their flexographic, sheetfed, paper packaging, gravure, heatset and/or energy curable printing issues.
SIM Finland Oy is a cosmetics manufacturer that emphasises purity, quality, and design in its products, and pays special attention to sustainability issues. When the company recently renewed its SensiDO professional hair colour range it chose a packaging material that mirrored these exacting values. MetsäBoard Pro FBB Bright is a lightweight fresh fibre paperboard with a low carbon footprint manufactured in Finland by Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group.
• UL’s ECOLOGO Certification follows rigorous testing and formulation assessments
• Inks used in SPC Delta 130 FlexLine Automatic minimize environmental impact
• Koenig & Bauer Durst demonstrates industry leadership and superior sustainable performance
The heart-warming story of how artist Christine Nicholls reached so many with her positive daily messages to combat the, often lonely, road of lockdown.
When artist Christine Nicholls of Inkpot & Pen studio went into lockdown, she started to illustrate and record daily the humorous journey of an artist’s life during this time from her London apartment and gardens.
INX International Ink Co. is continuing its Gold level sponsorship of the Digital Packaging Summit and will conduct two presentations when the virtual event takes place December 1-3.
The competitively priced Sorolla FSC range continues to grow with the addition of new ivory colour with H+Opacity technology.
Having introduced Ipanema Embossed self-adhesive paper back in 2018 as part of the Wine Lovers Collection, which was designed especially for the premium wine-making sector, we are excited to be expanding the versatility of this luxurious self-adhesive paper by combining it with revolutionary new technologies recently developed.
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