Henkel completes ATP deal, underscoring pull of specialty tapes
Henkel has completed its acquisition of ATP adhesive systems AG, bringing together two Afera Member Companies and underlining the growing strategic value of high-performance, water-based specialty tapes in the European adhesive tape value chain. Henkel has completed its acquisition of Swiss-based ATP adhesive systems AG. The transaction, announced in January and completed on 1 April […]
Vetaphone – Does digital print require special surface treatment?
With the LOUPE Americas expo in Chicago about to showcase the latest in digital print technology, surface treatment pioneer Vetaphone provides this useful Q&A check list for converters using non-absorbent substrates. Q: Does digital printing place different demands on surface treatment? A: With the exception of the inline primers that certain manufacturers recommend, there are […]
RK Print Coat – “Proofing gravure for retail and e-commerce”
Long considered a high street retailing fact of life: stores may close, but stores are always opening. Such statements of fact seem decidedly shaky now as the realities of an interconnected world encourage consumers to look beyond the high street or out-of-town shopping mall for shopping for those essential and for those aspirational and other […]
SÜDPACK welcomes 27 new young professionals
To mark the start of the training programme on 1 September, SÜDPACK is welcoming 27 new apprentices and students. The family-run business is very much looking forward to welcoming its new staff and has organised a varied induction week designed to provide guidance, facilitate personal connections and inspire enthusiasm for their shared future. Excitement within […]
Jagenberg Converting Solutions announces milestone for European battery cell manufacturing
Jagenberg Converting Solutions GmbH (JCS) has successfully delivered and transferred into series production two customised tandem coating lines for V4Smart GmbH & Co. KG in Nördlingen, Bavaria. The lines are a central element of the company’s electrode manufacturing operations and enable the large-scale production of the Ultra-High-Power UHP 26 cell – a lithium-ion cylindrical cell […]