August 2017

Flamatt, switzerland, 13 june 2017 – ebeam technologies, the developer and manufacturer of electron beam (ebeam or eb) solutions and its partners, uteco converting and inx digital international, will be at label expo in hall 4, stand a25. At the brussels expo, 25-28 september 2017, the partners will unveil the first industrial end-to-end digital narrow-web solution for the safe mass-personalization of indirect food contact flexible packaging and labels.

Food packaging market is by far the largest application segment of the packaging industry, accounting for more than one-third of the global packaging market. From a global perspective, the food packaging market is at a very interesting situation, where the market has almost reached a plateau in terms of technology in the more developed nations in North America and Europe, while the emerging countries of Asia Pacific region are playing catch up to the packaging technologies and food supply chain management.

Consumers are growing more accustomed to seeing water-soluble, unit-dose pods on shelves in the laundry and dishwasher detergent aisles, but now they can also find these little pods next to cans of shaving cream. San Francisco-based Pacific Shaving Co. developed its new Single-Use Shaving Cream Minis in collaboration with Merrillville, Indiana-based MonoSol, a division of Kuraray that manufactures water-soluble films for products like unit-dose laundry.

The PERGRAPHICA® portfolio of premium uncoated fine papers from Mondi is now available in Spain through paper merchant SET. PERGRAPHICA® is designed for the exacting needs of the creative and commercial print industries. It provides excellent printability on a choice of textures, shades and weights. Produced by the Mondi Neusiedler mill in Austria, PERGRAPHICA® is FSC® and EU Ecolabel certified. PERGRAPHICA® complements Mondi’s offering at the high end of its professional print portfolio.