Labels and Packaging
Mark Andy launches SmartPress ‘pre-configured press’ program
Mark Andy, supported locally by the recently formed CS Graphics, has launched a SmartPress program, which essentially offers customers a range of pre-configured press systems…
Flint Group Digital Xeikon throw out Ecolyne to support digital label printers
Flint Group Digital Xeikon has announced the worldwide launch of Ecolyne, extending the availability of its subscription-based digital label production model beyond the Asia-Pacific…
XAAR Versatex Black delivers high-definition variable data printing
At interpack 2026, Xaar has launched the latest version of its Versatex printbar, bringing high-definition black 1D and 2D variable data printing to existing…
ePS CommandCore ‘unified operational system’ for packaging
With packaging manufacturers typically operating functions ranging from ERP and manufacturing execution to quality, scheduling and sustainability, across disconnected tools, CommandCore – a new…
World’s first (Heidelberg) Gallus Five already hitting straps 3 months on
Just 3 months on from commissioning of the world’s first Gallus Five label press – installed at Italian label specialist, Artes Etichette in December…
More connected packaging with Esko and io.tt
Esko, a global provider of integrated solutions for the packaging and label industry, and io.tt, an enterprise platform for connected products, have announced a…
Avery Dennison & Walmart ‘happy to help’ with fresh, first-to-market RIFD label solution
Giant US retail and hyper-market brand, Walmart, has announced a collaboration with Avery Dennison to advance the use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in…
More ‘product to print’ brand protection from Koenig & Bauer and Bosch
Following quickly in the wake of Koenig & Bauer’s ‘protected at print’ initiative launch, Bosch has set up a new product authentication business and has teamed…
Ball & Doggett aiming to acquire flexible packaging supplier Impak Films
Ball & Doggett has entered an ‘in-principle agreement’ to buy Impak Films, one of Australia’s largest suppliers of flexible packaging products. Assuming all goes ahead…
Koenig & Bauer makes product security more accessible
Koenig & Bauer’s Vision & Protection team has recently launched a new initiative – ‘protected at print’ – which make security technologies that can…
New Label Studio feature added to Global Graphics Software’s SmartDFE
Global Graphics Software, the OEM business unit of Hybrid Software, has announced a new release of SmartDFE: the intelligent digital front end platform that…
Mark Andy sets worrying precedent in MAGA tariff pitch
European flexo press manufacturers, such as Bobst, Durst, Heidelberg-owned Gallus, Nilpeter, Omet and MPS, could be facing hefty import tariffs on kit imported to the US,…