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Landa’s lineup of offset quality Nanographic printing presses at drupa will include sheetfed presses running at 13,000 B1 sheets an hour as well as one meter-wide (41 inches) web presses printing on plastic packaging films. The company will also unveil Landa Nano-Metallography, a zero-waste metallization technology that will halve the cost of metallized printing compared to foil transfer processes.

Landa has come up with a new nanotechnology for the graphics metallization market. The company’s new Nano-Metallography technology offers zero-waste metallization, reducing costs by more than half compared to foil. Landa’s quicker and simpler process will streamline the production of metallized print and improve customer profitability. Landa Nano-Metallography is operable with the full spectrum of conventional printing technologies, including narrow-web flexo, offset and screen for the production of labels, sheetfed offset for folding carton and commercial printing, web-offset for publishing and wide-web flexo and gravure for flexible packaging.

Unilever’s global packaging sustainability director Louis Lindenberg has made circular economy approaches intrinsic to his waste strategy, to speed the giant corporation’s progress towards goals drawn up in 2010. He took the opportunity to briefly talk about industry’s position on the Indian Government’s proposed ban on all multi-layer flexible packaging materials, which could result in the potential for unintended undesirable consequences. It would take “far more resources to produce different packaging which can provide the same protection for the products contained within and take them through the value chain without having any quality issues,” he said.