Print Packaging

Sappi is a manufacturer of flexible packaging papers with integrated barriers and heat-seal capability. Xeikon develops digital printing engines, both toner-based and inkjet, for a variety of packaging applications. One of its latest developments is Titon, a new toner formulation responding to sustainability trends in packaging, and claimed to offer, ‘all the benefits of UV inks without the disadvantages.’ Specifically, this sees the combination of the food-safe and odourless properties of dry toner with the special resistance to chemicals and mechanical abrasion of UV inkjet ink.

Colpac is providing easily accessible sustainability credentials for its paperboard food packaging. This supports end users in making informed product choices and responsibly disposing of sustainable food packaging after use. It also informs Colpac customers of recycling and composting information, and material sources, so they can align packaging choices with sustainability goals.

This initiative supports WRAP’s Recycle Week 2023, which has the theme of ‘missed capture’, working to improve recycling rates.

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This includes the Oracle Cloud project, scannable 2D / QR codes which it says are crucial for e-commerce platforms, and supply chain systems.

The company said current international trading conditions are very challenging, but demand for its products has remained strong, with total sales growing in 2022.

Pablo Libreros, CEO of Omni-Pac Group, expressed his excitement, emphasizing the company's leading role in driving innovation and sustainability within the industry through their partnership with HP. "Our collaboration with HP allows us to revolutionize the production of molded fiber at an industrial scale, transforming the development, launch, and production of molded fiber applications.