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Tetra Pak, the world’s leading packaging and processing solutions provider, has been awarded the reputed Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2016 for its work in establishing a sustainable collection and recycling ecosystem for used Tetra Pak cartons. The Golden Peacock Award, a global benchmark of corporate excellence, underlines Tetra Pak’s responsible waste management and recycling practices.

Asahi Photoproducts in Treviso, Italy, a pioneer in flexographic photopolymer plate development has adopted Asahi AWPTM – water-washable flexo plates for both narrow and wide-web applications. The company is known for its unique Pinning Technology for Clean Transfer, enabling kiss touch printing that delivers improved ink transfer, reduces ink filling at the mid-tone area thus reducing dot gain, and results in fewer cleaning intervals for improved overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Nu-Maber was looking for a way to improve the quality of plates it offers its converter customers who produce food packaging, diapers, labels, shopping bags, tissues and more, while also reducing the environmental footprint associated with flexo platemaking and the operation of flexographic presses.

At drupa 2016 Tresu Group sold a hybrid wide format Flexo Innovator printing line to the paperboard converter Dominion Packaging of Richmond, Virginia, USA. The multiple color innovator press is expected to be fully operational at the company’s Richmond plant by the end of 2016.

Bobst will present an advanced range of technology and process solutions in printing and converting for the global label industry at Labelexpo Americas in Rosemont, ILL, USA, from 13 to 15 September 2016. Star of the show on Bobst’s stand will be the digital flexo process which will be demonstrated on the Bobst M6 mid-web inline UV flexo press. The advantages of digital flexo, which is part of Bobst Digital Automation programme, are unique in making the press operation fast, flexible and reliable, allied with a consistently superior quality of the output and the lowest total cost of ownership.

Henkel Adhesive Technologies India (Henkel India), the leading solution provider for adhesives, sealants and surface treatment and a fully owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co., was honoured at Frost & Sullivan’s Sustainability 4.0 Awards 2016 with the ‘Challengers Award’ under the Large Business, Corporate Category for Sustainability. This award was presented to Sundar Iyer, CFO of Henkel India and other team members from the company on 27 May 2016 at Mumbai.

Kotkamills is launching its new range of consumer board products – the folding boxboard range will be covered by the AEGLE brand and the food service range by the ISLA brand. The standard board ranges will be launched in July 2016 when Kotkamills’ new board machine starts. The option of water-based dispersion coated barriers will be added in the autumn. The new machine will for the first time allow barrier coatings to be applied directly on the carton board machine as part of normal production.

This year’s ‘Olympiad’ of the printing world was a clear sign of a digital takeover and the spread of packaging across the halls marked progress towards industrializing technologies that in 2012 were in niche applications or at the concept stage. Likely industry-changers for packaging sprang from expected sources, others from lesser-known names, but one idea worth backing as a winner at drupa 2016 was the brainchild of a new player in the emerging sector of virtual 3D packaging design.

Sidel, the leading global provider of PET solutions for liquid packaging, is highlighting the importance of complete line solutions in delivering optimum performance for beverage producers, along with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). “As a result of the ever-changing market, beverage producers are generally now taking a more holistic approach to the installation of new bottling lines,” explains Clive Smith, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Sidel.