UPFRONT
3 Editor’s Letter: drupa numbers down but still positive
7 Company news and industry events
PRINT MATTERS
12 drupa: All about packaging and partnerships
25 Colour Management & Registration: It’s all about control
31 Foiling & Embossing: Supreme performance and innovation
33 Kurz finishes with a difference
34 API expands and foils fraudsters
35 Cover Story: Printafoil converts materials others can’t
36 Flexo Forum: CAE and PrimeBlade strategic alliance
37 Prepress: Green’s the word at The Printing Press
CONVERTING MATTERS
39 Labelling & Narrow Web: An Edale for Afripack Labels
41 CCL Label backs Michelangelo Wine Awards
42 A grand affair at Collotype Labels
44 Release liner in the spotlight
47 Flexible Packaging: Nurscon’s growth prompts investments
49 Impressive Polyslit upgrade
53 Nampak Flexible bounces back
57 Plastics in Packaging: Plastop drives product excellence
61 Rajoo’s LabEX Multifoil – small in size, big in stature
64 Packaging Consultancy: ‘Paying it forward’ at APMG
65 Paper & Board: Streamlining design for folding cartons
67 Ultra Litho gets a unified workflow system
68 Graphical boards for brilliant print results
70 Packaging solutions on show at Africa Print Cape Town
FMCG PACK
72 Clive Glover picks his packs
75 Fast Food Packaging: Multivac builds better packaging
77 Resilient consumer convenience from Sappi
77 Fast food Fuzione style
78 Polystyrene: Committed to recycling
79 S&G ticks all the right boxes
81 Lufil has it wrapped
83 Beverage Packaging: A new world of packaging from Comass
85 Fresh Produce Packaging: CoolSeal to be made in SA
87 Contract Packing: Zimele – in pursuit of excellence
88 Filling & Packing: Packit’s one-stop-shop
91 Coding, Marking & Labelling: Pyrotec solves the solvent problem
93 Inspection Systems: Infrared temperature sensing
94 End of Line: Tailored strapping
96 Beauty Packaging: Trend setting at Dispensing Products
97 Technical triumphs at Cosmoprof
99 At the Cutting Edge: International FMCG innovation
FINISHING TOUCHES
101 PIFSA’s PrinTalk
102 PCA News: PCA’s banner flies at Fairstep
103 IPSA News: IPSA launches Advanced Packaging Programme
104 A toe-tapping affair in the Western Cape
105 Yours irreverently
105 Diary
106 Index of advertisers and their web addresses
