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GM Packaging at Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate, North Shields started off selling printed carrier bags to a range of customers. Now, due to years of diversification and growth, the company has achieved a £2m turnover and a wide…

The organisers of TCL2017, the International Conference on Textile Coating and Laminating, have announced that discounted early-bird rates are now available for delegates to the event. The event will take place in Berlin, Germany,…

Online visitor registration is now open as Labelexpo Europe 2017 gears up for its biggest edition to date. The four-day trade show returns to Brussels Expo September 25–28, with over 650 exhibitors lining-up to showcase the latest in…

Prior to the event, IST METZ announced itself as the world’s largest in-house exhibition for UV and LED UV technology. It has now been reported that 45 exhibitors and 920 guests from 33 countries took part in the UV DAYS 2017,…

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) recognises the benefits that corrugated packaging brings to delivering food in optimum condition and supports the European Parliament’s resolution on 'Resource efficiency: reducing food waste,…

Global demand for functional and barrier coatings in paper and paperboard applications, is forecast to grow by 4.9 per cent year-on-year to $5.18bn by 2022. Exclusive data from the new Smithers Pira report, ‘The Future of Functional and…

The 14th edition of Label Summit Latin America, held in Santiago’s Espacio Riesco, attracted 815 attendees. The two-day event’s combination of informative panel discussions and technical and practical presentations proved popular with…

When one of the largest manufacturers of self-wound over laminate film in the US goes looking for technology, only the best will do.  This was the task that Dennis Liebman set himself when he installed the latest of his company’s five…

Spooner Industries provides the converting industry with custom built solutions for the industrial drying, curing, cooling and non-contact web handling of printed and coated materials. Spooner has 85 years of in-depth knowledge and…

Jarshire, specialist supplier of converting, packaging and printing equipment, together with Dotec, manufacturer of reel and roll handling equipment, have high expectations for the PPMA show, which has proved to be an effective platform for…