UPFRONT 3 Editor’s Letter: New venue for Ipex 2014 7 Company news and industry events 17 Cover story: Relationship building at Express Hauliers
PRINT MATTERS 21 Print Industry News: drupacube 2012 to focus on print buyers and communications sector 23 Heidelberg’s winning truck wrap design 24 Mail Room Update: Pitney Bowes raises the bar for plastic wrapping 26 Anniversary Feature: Printech Engineering’s 30th anniversary 33 Offset Litho: Slashing makeready time 35 Flexo Forum: Apex launches new sleeve material 39 Plate perfection from Kemtek 41 SA Rotary Dies cements relationship with Kocher & Beck 42 Efficient logistics for flexo sleeves 43 Print Finishing: Perfect finish at Print In Time
PACKAGING PRINTING & CONVERTING 46 Labelling & Narrow Web: DecTec sees launch of Label Association 50 Müller Martini’s Alprinta suits IML printing 51 Special Profile: Uniprint – a leading light in labels and cartons 67 Anniversary Feature: Spec Tool & Die celebrates first 20 years 73 Plastics in Packaging: Unitemp’s DN nozzle for finest moulds 75 SB block copolymers for packaging flexibility 78 KraussMaffei forum offers innovation and competence 79 DemaPlasTech offers 3D multi-material printing 81 Flexible Packaging: Technovaa Packaging’s African footprint 83 African Flexographic Solutions’ print-perfect prototypes 85 Print perfection at Tropic Plastics 86 Fima’s expansion plans on track 87 Rotomec’s sustainable biodegradable packaging technologies 90 Ti’s new BOPP line in Egypt
FMCG PACK 92 Trends in Wine Labelling: A little label with a big job 96 Beverage Packaging: Sig Combibloc’s enviro-friendly wine packaging 98 Thirsty thoughts from BMI 100 Packaging design – to capture and convert 101 Food Safety: Is paper and board safe for food packaging? 104 Necks & Closures: Converting to the new 1881 standard 110 Clive’s Column: Clive searches for packs of the month 112 interpack: More highlights from interpack 2011 118 Beauty Packaging: How do we determine green packaging? 121 Coding, Marking & Labelling: Zetes Industries acquires ProScan 123 Inspection Systems: X-ray inspection from Thermo Fisher
FINISHING TOUCHES 124 PIFSA’s PrinTalk 128 IPSA News: Graphic design in packaging 129 Yours irreverently 129 Diary 130 Index of advertisers and their web addresses
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