EC-CONVERT celebrates great success at K 2025
From 8–15 October, EC-CONVERT, a leading Spanish company specialising in the design and manufacturing of machinery for the converting and flexible packaging industry, successfully participated in K 2025 in Düsseldorf – the world’s leading trade fair for plastics and packaging. The highlight of EC-CONVERT’s presence was the launch of its latest innovation, the SLT2-140 – […]
MPRINT chooses Vetaphone corona for digital cold foil
Founded by Michael Morlock in 1999 and a part of the LEONHARD KURZ Group since 2019, MPRINT is renowned for its innovation in digital print and finishing. As part of its development programme into digital cold foil application it turned to corona inventor and pioneer in surface technology, Vetaphone. Located in Baiersbronn, in the north […]
K 2025 confirms its pole position in the plastics and rubber industry
K 2025, the most relevant trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry worldwide, drew to a successful close on 15 October 2025 after 8 days. In view of the current difficult economic climate, many companies in the plastics and rubber industry travelled to Düsseldorf with rather subdued expectations. But the mood prevailing across the […]
Inno-PrintPack 2025 at Follmann – Packaging innovations live
The renowned ‘Expert Meeting on Packaging Printing’ is entering its tenth edition under a new name: Inno-PrintPack 2025. On 27 and 28 November 2025, the packaging printing industry will meet at the Follmann Group’s new event centre in Minden – for the first time in the midst of a speciality chemicals factory that manufactures water-based […]
Flexible packaging materials – minor price declines in Q3 of 2025
The markets for flexible packaging materials experienced minor price decreases across substrates in the third quarter of 2025. Aluminium foil (7 micron) showed particularly pronounced reductions, alongside BOPA, BOPP and BOPET films. While one-side coated paper (60 g/m²) remained stable, HDPE and LDPE continued the weaker trends seen during the first half of the year. […]