UPFRONT 3 Editor’s Letter: Why didn’t I win a Gold Pack Award? 6 Company news and industry events 7 Environmental news
PRINT MATTERS 10 Print Industry News: drupa World Tour at critical phase 12 Flint takes a fresh stance in South Africa 15 New digital division and industry expert at Antalis 16 Digital Digest: SE Color invests in digital printing 17 Colour Management: CMG’s software for packaging mock-ups 18 Gravure: Gravure Cylinders goes green 19 MIS: Prinfo takes on more EFI products 21 Show Report: Africa Print is a huge success
CONVERTING MATTERS 32 Print Consumables: Konika and The Graphic Warehouse strengthen alliance 35 Anniversary Feature: Plastform – 30 years on 41 Plastics in Packaging: Alternative to traditional polymers 43 Flexible Packaging: Continued demand for multilayer films and coextrusions 44 Cover Story: Lapack guarantees value and perfection 47 Labelling & Narrow Web: Titan’s next generation rewinding technology 48 More Rotocontrol units for SA 50 IML paper from Stora Enso 51 Avery Dennison launches Flexis Air at Coffee Summit 53 Corrugated Update: Investments continue at Mpact 56 Print perfection at Mpact Springs 58 Bobst Mastercut is twice as productive as previous equipment
FMCG PACK 61 Dairy Packaging: Nampak ticks all the boxes 63 Distinctive closures from Fontana 65 Beverage Packaging: Sidel is SAB’s supplier of the year 67 Nampak’s beverage packaging achievements 68 Coca-Cola’s new green Valpré plant 75 Agri Packaging: Starke Ayres counts on Ishida 77 Wrapping Technology: Bundled know-how 78 Beauty Packaging: Technology pumped for the future 81 Packaging Machinery: A fresh start for WH Rosenmeyer 83 Control Systems: Banner’s integrated safety control 84 On The Shelf: Clive Glover picks his packs 87 Filling & Packing: Marchesini’s new Unica robotic line 89 Coding, Marking & Labelling: Pyrotec announces more finalists
FINISHING TOUCHES 90 PIFSA’s PrinTalk 93 IPSA News: Western Cape’s battle of the brains 94 Education for all at IPSA’s National Congress 96 KZN’s golf day 97 Yours irreverently 97 Diary 98 Index of advertisers and their web addresses
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