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X-Rite Incorporated, one of the global leaders in color science and technology, and its subsidiary Pantone, has introduced the PantoneLIVE Private Cloud, a secure, cloud-based repository that allows packaging converters and commercial printers to easily store and share existing proprietary color libraries across the color supply chain. The new offering is part of the PantoneLIVE ecosystem designed to digitally communicate color, accurately between brand owners, designers, premedia, ink suppliers and printers. It removes any ambiguity when communicating color specifications across the workflow process. This enables converters and printers to deliver consistent color and meet customer expectations each and every time.

According to WWF Germany, 1.3 billion tonnes of food are lost each year – a share of 30 to 40%. The food that remains unused and is therefore thrown away amounts to over 100 million tonnes in Europe and 18 million tonnes in Germany. The potential volume that can be avoided along the entire value chain is very high, including the harvest and post-harvest, processing and distribution to the consumer. Even now, according to the report, Germany alone could save 10 million of its annual 18 million tonnes that normally end up in the bin. Distribution losses in the retail and wholesale trades are 2.58 billion tonnes. The study says that 2.4 million tonnes of waste could be avoided, that is, nearly 90%.

The GRAVO-PROOF MULTI, which has a maximum of 8 printing cylinders set on the turret, is able to print on the same films and inks used during gravure production runs to provide near-production-quality proofs.

In a press release dated 23 March 2016, Esko says it has completely updated its software solutions, relaunching them as the Esko Software Platform. This is the next version of Esko’s well-known portfolio of integrated software solutions for design, prepress, workflow automation, color management and supply chain collaboration used for packaging, labels, displays and signs. The full range of innovations and integrations of Esko Software Platform will be demonstrated for the first time at drupa, scheduled for May 31 through June 10 in Düsseldorf and be commercially released beginning June 2016.

Afflatus Gravures is the largest gravure cylinder maker in India, a country in which gravure overwhelmingly dominates flexible packaging. The company currently has three cylinder making plants in Noida, Chennai and Vapi with the fourth in Kolkata to be commissioned on 1 June 2016. The innovative company is an early adopter – the first in the country to set up and run an entirely automated robotic cylinder preparation, laser engraving and finishing plant which has been running since October 2015.

Funded within the programme EEA Grants through CDTI, the project EPS-FISH makes it possible to remove odours in fresh fish packages for their recycling and recovery. EPS FISH has been developed by Acteco and Aimplas, with really good results, since the recycled material obtained has been validated by means of manufacturing XPS and EPS insulating panels with adequate physical-mechanical properties.

Messe Düsseldorf India and IppStar have agreed to jointly organize a two-day conference on 16 and 17 December 2016, alongside the biannual International PackTech India / FoodPex India at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai. While the PackTech India / FoodPex India will take place from 15 to 17 December 2016, the first annual IppStar-PackTech India Packaging Design, Innovation and Technology Conference will take place at the conference hall at the same site on 16 and 17 December.

EyeC will focus on buyers and manufacturers of high-quality packages at drupa 2016. The inspection experts will introduce its latest advances in print quality control. Ansgar Kaupp, CEO of EyeC, commented, “We are now able to offer buyers and manufacturers of high-quality folding boxes efficient solutions for a total quality control. We are especially able to meet their three main needs – ensuring a 100% outgoing control of folding boxes with complex finishing; reducing production costs through ever faster quality checks; and providing a comprehensive range of solutions for a suitable integration in their budget and environment.”

The drupa 2016 organizers have taken on the challenge of maintaining a platform that tries to bring together many of the threads that are still developing and not fully formed such as industrial printing and 3D printing. They have also decided to move packaging which has always been a significant segment even more consciously into the limelight at this year’s show.