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Mark Andy – 873,000 finished labels in one shift
Mark Andy has demonstrated the productivity potential of its Digital Series HD HighSpeed 1200 through an eight-hour production shift that completed 10 jobs, encompassing 25 SKUs and 873,000 finished labels, with a single operator. Compared with conventional flexo, the hybrid press reduced total production time by 83%, makeready time by 91%, and material waste by […]
BOBST – How automation enables a new era of vacuum metallizing
As the demands on converters and film producers become greater, machines must get smarter. That’s the simple truth at the heart of today’s packaging industry. Flexible packaging converters and film producers, for example, face increasing manufacturing complexity: new sustainable and more heat-sensitive substrates, tighter regulations, growing barrier performance requirements, and a shrinking pool of experienced […]
IPCO – “We can tailor the machine to the process”
IPCO is consolidating its testing and engineering expertise in Fellbach. PRO Flexconvert spoke to Nora Topp, Head of the Productivity Center, and Global Product Manager Film Casting and Jens Gegner, Global Segment Manager for Composites, about the new Productivity Center, developments in the composites market and the importance of bespoke solutions. IPCO has set up […]
Noak raises €5M to industrialise perovskite-silicon tandem solar technology
Noak, a new spin-off of imec and UHasselt, has raised €5 million to scale and industrialise the development of the next generation of solar: perovskite–silicon tandem PV. The seed investment, provided by the Helios Foundation, Nuhma and V2HFin, marks an important next step in bringing this promising technology closer to European manufacturing. Fastest-growing renewable energy […]
NUS researchers thread world’s first touchscreen into a garment
Researchers at the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fibre that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them into a sleeve to create the world’s first touchscreen built into a garment. The sleeve displays images and video, responds to finger presses […]
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