As in previous years, the OE-A hosted a pavilion at CES 2025. We asked Managing Director Dr Klaus Hecker about his impressions directly from Las Vegas. You just came back from CES in Las Vegas, where OE-A had a joint pavilion with some of its members. Which overall trends did you see? Dr Klaus Hecker: […]
Read more »From 11 – 13 March 2025, the international converting industry will meet in Munich for the 14th edition of ICE Europe, the world’s leading marketplace to source bespoke converting solutions for flexible and web-based materials. For an initial preview of the event, we sat down for an interview with Patrick Herman, Event Director for Converting, […]
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Flexography has over time extended its sphere of influence, taking on all comers, enabling the savvy converter to bid for and obtain orders in countless high-value print quality focussed product segments, such as wrap around and shrink labelling; printing and conversion of FMCG and many more besides. Food, beverage and manufacturers of consumer goods are […]
GEW has announced the appointment of CNI Tisk servis spol. s r.o. as its official distributor for the Label and Narrow Web business in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with immediate effect. CNI now manages sales, service and spare parts for GEW Label and Narrow Web installations across both countries. The new partnership builds upon […]
Since its foundation in 1996, Karlville has built a business that has headquarters in the US and facilities across Europe and Asia, with more than 3200 of its machines installed worldwide. Supplying technology to the label and flexible packaging sectors, the company’s machines produce a variety of shrink sleeves, pouches, tapes and multipacks. With such […]
Afera, the European Adhesive Tape Association, has released a new guidance document on “Sustainable use of Adhesive Tapes” as part of the work undertaken by the Advocacy Workstream of Afera’s Flagship Sustainability Project (AFSP). The purpose of this guidance document is to provide information to end users about the various types of pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes […]
European Bioplastics presented its 2024 edition of the market development update during the EBC24 Conference taking place in Berlin, Germany. The report confirms the continuous growth of the global production capacities of bioplastics. Overall global plastics production continues to rise steadily. This development is driven by rising demand combined with the emergence of ever more […]