UPFRONT 3 Editor’s Letter: It’s show time 6 Company news and industry events 12 Environmental news
SPECIAL REPORT 14 Company Focus: Tropic shows strength in innovation
PACKAGING PRINTING & CONVERTING 26 Bottle Decoration: Bottle Printers celebrates 20 years 35 Focus on Flexibles: Peninsula Packaging raises the bar 37 Titan launches next-generation rewinder 38 Getting it all from water-based adhesives 40 Paper & Board: Nampak celebrates R800m paper project 42 Labelling & Narrow Web: Uniprint backs ABG technology 44 GTV flexes more Nilpeter muscle 46 Java Print excels with Mark Andy 48 UVP Products in Gauteng venture 50 New ‘underwear’ for treefree label paper 51 Labelexpo Review: Records tumble at Labelexpo
PRINT MATTERS 72 Print Industry News: Getting the full package at drupa 77 Prepress: Kemtek impresses at Nampak Divfood 80 Digital Digest: Xerox adds ‘pop’ t product packaging 81 Ren-Form gets a turbocharge with Kodak system for VDP 82 Trident invests in HP Indigo digital technology 84 Inspection Systems: When every copy counts
FMCG PACK 86 Clive Glover picks his packs 88 Dairy Packaging: Sonnendal – independent dairy with a big heart 92 Marefa’s efficient, time-saving multipack yoghurt fillers 94 Carton packs – driven by consumer demand for dairy products 96 Talking Tubes: Increased tube production in Europe 98 In South Africa, tubes take on a new shape 100 Nampak Closures unveils R14-millon wine closures line 102 Food Packaging: To preserve and protect 103 Filling & Packing: Better bonding hot-melt adhesives 104 Coding, Marking & Labelling: Pyro Inspiration’s fifth round 105 Markem-Imaje’s laser coder picks up the pace 107 Inspection Systems: Non-contact infrared temperature sensors
FINISHING TOUCHES 108 PIFSA’s PrinTalk 110 IPSA News: Student Gold Pack Awards 113 IPSA’s regional news 115 Yours irreverently 115 Diary 116 Index of advertisers and their web addresses
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