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Tabel of Contents Inaplas 2018

A Real Gravure Press Revival

Success in Short Run Flexible Packaging

Harper Corporation of America introduces the New Harper Expo & Solutions Tour

Color Management for Fixed Color Palette Printing

Snoopy Beauty Make Up

New Generation of Anilox Rollers

MacDermid-New Premises, Investment & a New Plate

Profiling Packaging for Prepress

Crown Open in Jakarta

What Printer Can Teach Designer

Ten Consumer Goods Trends

Smart Label Detect Food Spoilage Before It Happens

Popularity of Ready Meals Rising in Singapore

New Shoes Store Concepts for Kids

Maccma Annual Dinner 29th

ACCA

DS Smith Receive Four Awards at The Flexostarts

Custom Packaging G7 Barberian

Indonesiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Footware 2018

Dear Readers, It seem that we have to work harder and consolidated ourselves this year. Mr.Didik Susilo from Inaplas (Indonesian Plastic Association) on his opening speech on the Indonesia Petrochemical & Plastic Industry Conference mentioned that we have to be ready for some challenge in 2018 both political and unstable business climate as Government will start to apply a certain tax for plastic and we have to decreased 25% of plastic waste by 2025 as well as the Impact of import from ASEAN countries and China. Mr. Faisal Basri on the other hand mentioned that now Indonesian industry is not so good anymore, too much import, too much deficit as well as for investment Indonesia now only choice no 5 for Japan, while Myanmar and Vietnam have better value for investment then Indonesia. By FDI standard Indonesia not even in the top 20 for investment. Though it seem Indonesia still the beauty in Asean â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we can see the Crown just enter Indonesia last December. We have to be more effisient to be competitive, therefore to understand what the future will be as well as trying to upgrade our manpower is very important. To understand the real colors management that will reduce our waste and improve quality. On the corrugated industry we see more movement to the Digital Printing. As corrugated now is not just a transport packaging â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it has become the Retail Ready Packaging therefore the way we do the diecut also has to be changed therefore First Packaging Asia together with Marbach held one day seminar to inform the audience which material and how to be more efficient, fast set up and long last die cutting. Enjoy reading â&#x20AC;Ś

INAPLAS 2018

Indonesia Petrochemical & Plastic Industry Petrochemical and plastic has to be ready for some challenge in 2018 both political and unstable business climate. On the opening speech Mr. Didik Susilo from Inaplas (Indonesian Plastic Association) described the challenges in this industry: • Government will start to apply a certain tax for plastic • We have to decreased 25% of plastic waste by 2025 • Impact of import from ASEAN, China, etc. (at present our import value 2 Billion US$ - 220 Trillion rupiah) therefore we are targeting to increase the local products up to 4 million ton by 2025. • This industry is not yet integrated. According to Inaplas at present there is no integration between petroleum industry and petrochemical, therefore very limited raw material available and we have to import most of the raw material. • We have not yet an alternative program for this industry sources. Petrochemical is one of the best industry as it growth about

8% while other industries in average about 4.75%. Though still a lot of potential not yet done in Indonesia, such as Tuban at present only used as fuel while cosmetic, paint and pharma industry still import 90% of its main materials. Mr. Faisal Basri on the other hand share his opinion about Indonesian industry situation at present. He mentioned that now Indonesian industry is not so good anymore, too much import, too much deficit as well as for investment Indonesia now only choice no 5 for Japan, while Myanmar and Vietnam have better value for investment then Indonesia. By FDI standard Indonesia not even in the top 20 for investment.

Mr. Fajar (INAPLAS) & Mr. Faisal Basri

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While industry is the biggest contribution to the Indonesian tax revenue 2012 – 2016 (average) • Contribution of industry to tax revenue = 30.7% • Share of industry to GDP = 21% • Every 1% increase in industry value it will contribute equivalent to 1.5% tax revenue while construction will only increase 0,5% for every 1% increase of their value. Therefore, logically if government need to increase tax revenue it must provide all the necessary facilities to speed up the growth of industry in Indonesia, such as speed up license procedure import, export clearance, lower interest for working capital, etc. Deficit oil trade in 2017 has reached almost US$ 15 Billion. Mr. Fajar Budiyono Secretary General of INAPLAS give us so clear picture fo the Plastic Industry (PP PE, PS, PVC) MT/Year • Capacity : 3,230,000 TPY • Production : 2,530,000 TPY • Demand : 5.835.000 TPY • Import : 2,150,000 TPY • Recycle consumption : 1,155.000 TPY • The world oil price has reached

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US$ 70 per barrel made the raw material for plastic also increase US$ 10-25 per metric ton This increment happened last month and it seem will keep increasing Raw material for PP in January US$ 1.400 per ton, while PE US$ 1.567 per ton, While ethylene US$ 1.000 per ton. This year plastic industry aim for 5.4 – 5.5% growth to reach 2.8 million tons.

To be success in the business we must be competitive, therefore we have to have a competitive raw material, even though competitive raw material is not a guarantee that we will have a good price. As price will be depend on the demand and supply value. World forecast consumer flexible packaging consumption by product: • The total market for consumer and industrial flexible packaging is almost $230 billion in 2017. • The market is projected to grow at an annual rate of 4.3% reaching a total value of %283 billionin 2022. • The volume of consumer flexible packaging will grow at annual rate 4.1% increasing from 27.4 million tons in 2017 to 33.5 million tons in 2022.

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A REAL GRAVURE PRESS REVIVAL Uteco Introduces a New Gravure Press While Declaring Support for the Market At an open house event in September 2017 at Uteco’s technology center in Verona, customers were able to see the new NXS 300 and Next 450 gravure printing presses in operation. This indicates Uteco renewed commitment and support to the gravure printing markets. While much of the printing industry’s focus was still centered in Brussels during Labelexpo Europe 2017, another big event was occurring at Uteco’s Converdrome technology center: the launching of a new gravure press as the company reaffirmed their collective faith in the technology. Aldo Peretti, CEO of the company, opened the event by explaining that Uteco’s new gravure printing press, the NXS 300 “completes the range of gravure printing machines that we started a couple of years ago, which have been achieving resounding selling success”. In 2015, Uteco started to construct gravure machines. “We produce a hundred flexo presses a year,” Peretti said. “But in a globalized world, we

want to be a global supplier for the field of printing and converting. Therefore, we cannot be limited to one technology. Furthermore customers and brand owners asked us to take the role to be the Italian player in the gravure market.” However, Uteco is anything but a newcomer to the gravure industries. Late in the 1990s, the company included in its catalogue a gravure press that was sold to the Royal Bank of England to print bank notes. But since then, the flexo process has been continuously improved, gaining more and more market traction often at the expense of gravure printing, forcing the latter further into more of a niche. But by listening to the market and talking to customers and

brand owners, Uteco established that there is still room for the gravure process, but only if it is improved and innovated. “We spent a whole year before we started with the project,” explained Alessandro Bicego, gravure chief product manager. “I visited our customers around the world to understand their needs. In addition, we discussed with partners and brand owners the key points of our Next gravure project and we identified that the following actions would better satisfy the market’s needs: making set-up quicker; reduce waste during setup; make change over smoother; redesign ventilation to save energy; and optimize the monitoring process.” Heralding another press generation The Next 350 gravure printing press was produced after more than 300 tests of various cylinders, printing widths, bands and other materials. The result is a system that represents a

high concentration of technology for a web width of 1000 to 1500 mm (40” to 59”) and printing widths of 450 to 920 mm (18” to 36”), and is capable of operating with either water based or solvent based inks at speeds of up to 450m/min (1476 fpm). During the open house event, Uteco also highlighted its main feature: flexibility. This translates into having automatic registration; a more practical print trolley for quick job changes; energy saving and quiet ventilation/drying system; newly designed doctor blades; automatic sleeve changes; and only one operating control point. The company’s research and development group also worked to enchange inking, which has subsequently been encapsulated in order to eliminate emissions and spray. When a job is completed, the used cylinder are changed after being

washed using a semi-automatic trolley system. Bicego explains: “Indeed, it’s possible to have a job change in less than eight minutes from an eight color job. The patented ventilation system highly reduces air turbulences, which means energy savings of 1,5 million kWh per year. Set-up is also completely automated which results in reduced waste rates of 150 meters (492 ft.) on average.” The next 450 is supplied with an operating control panel where all the machine settings can be entered in order to monitor each parameter of the current job. A touchscreen monitor also allows the operator to check printing quality from one location. “During the analysis phase, I noticed that the operator at the machine has too many monitors to check and finally some controls were missing. With one single control and entry point we reduce the possibility of errors,” said Bicego. Reviewing the history of the machine, Bicego revealed that “one of the first customers who bought the machine

reported the following experience using the Next 450 in production with seven colors, four job changes and 12 working hours a day. This customer was able to print at an average speed of 316 m/min (1037 fpm); job changes took 41 minutes including color matching; and even while changing print trolleys, production was possible at a speed of 420 m/min (1378 fpm). Therefore, this customer is so satisfied that it has already ordered a second machine,” he said. As far as coverage is concerned, Uteco reports that, in total, they have sold 15 complete installations around the world over last two years. Partners in the water based project Throughout the open house event, both the Next 450 and the NXS 300 were run using solvent based and water based inks from the Flint Group and BASF respectively. Attracting a good amount of attention, currently, according to BASF data, roughly 50% of the market is using water based inks. But brand owners are becoming increasingly focused on sustainability

and reducing their respective carbon footprint. “There is a lot of pressure to move towards water based inks. We started years ago,” said Tanja Kuiphuis, market manager resins at BASF Nederland. “At that time they were of a lower quality level, but now we have developed water based inks with good printability. We will continue developing and supporting the printing industry with them.” The Flint Group was also involved in Uteco’s water based project. The demonstration showed a film product printed with water based inks that had a coverage of 400% using only five grams (0.176 oz.) of ink. Many visitor to the event were seemingly pleased that the ink showed great resistance and anchoring qualities. Designed to meet updated requirements The main focus of the open house event was the NXS 300, a gravure machine designed for narrow formats and short print runs. “This machine was introduced to meet customer requirements.” Continued Bicego.

“The design is optimized for the small size of the machine, and allows for a drastic reduction of energy costs.” It features a print repeat range of 300 to 800 mm (12” to 31”), a maximum speed of 300 m/min (984 fpm), and an inside drying length of 1500 mm to 2200 mm (59 to 87”). The compact machine measures 26 x 4 meters (85 ft. x 13 ft.) and, to the top of its drying hoods, it stands altogether 4,7 meters high (15 ft.). Utilizing cutting edge software, the chambered doctor blade system, the color tray and the chambered doctor blade system, color tray and the cylinder washing system have all been automated in order to optimize changeover times. The new frontal dual trolley management system also helps make job change operations simpler than traditional systems. According to Uteco, it is possible to remove the cylinder trolley or just the color trolley in less than two minutes.

by Maria Laura Lombardi

VIV AIMS for Short Run

Flexible Packaging with ‘Smart Digital Flexo’ Going digital on a flexo press may sound like a contradiction to many people. Weinand Van Kesteren however has been perfecting his ‘Smart Digital Flexo’ concept for over a year now. And he is convinced it will enable his company VIV to become a leader in producing high quality flexible packaging in short and very short runs: “We like to do things just a little different here.” VIV in Veenendaal (The Netherlands) is a family-owned business, established in 1953 as a wholesaler in packaging materials VIV being an abbreviation for Packaging Industry Veenendaal. Over the years, VIV has always been quick to recognize trends and opportunities. When Weinand Van Kesteren and his brother Herman joined the company in the 1980’s and subsequently took over the helm from their father, they witnessed how polypropylene became very popular as a packaging material very rapidly. “So,

we decided to expand our business into flexo printing and managed to become the biggest supplier of decorated floral foil in Europe.” Establish a new future Flexo printing has been at the heart of VIV ever since: last year, the company installed a brand new 10 color Comexi press, next to their already existing Comexi presses. But the market has changed over the years and Weinand Van Kesteren changed course with it, early on: “In 2006, it became clear to me that the market for floral wrapping foils was about to transform dramatically: the number of specialized florist shops would be going down and more flowers would be sold through supermarkets. At the same time, we saw a trend that moved away from our colorful foil designs towards a more ‘eco’look. That left us printing just one color or even supplying just plain foil, and making very little margin. On top of that, the financial

crisis hit. We really needed to find ways to establish a new future for our business.” Gaining an advantage Van Kesteren found flexible packaging for food to be very promising: “However, entering this market required us to completely overhaul our machine park.” Often described as ‘having a mind of his own’, he decided not to follow the dominant trend at the time of investing in 60 cm wide narrow web flexo presses, but instead have a 120 cm wide press installed: “To me, it’s very simple: you cannot print 120 cm wide on a narrow web press, but you can do 60 cm on a 120 cm wide press. By making clever use of this width, for example by combining different designs onto one web, you can gain an interesting advantage over your competitors.” After a first 8-color Comexi press in 2008, a 10-color Comexi press followed in 2010. As VIV starts to expand its business again “Switching to a new market requires an enormous amount of effort from your employees, your sales people, and your organization” Van Kesteren is now ready to take things to a new level. Digital printing versus Flexo printing “Everybody seems to be talking about ‘digital printing’ and short runs. So, to find out what this hype is all about,

we decided to visit Drupa in 2016 and take a good look at what a certain supplier of Digital press equipment was up to in flexible packaging. And, yes, we were impressed: in less then ten minutes after we arrived at their booth, they started printing our jobs, live, at the show!” Less impressive, however, were the numbers after some serious calculating: “If you are, like us, doing your own repro and platemaking in house, the break-even point between digital printing and flexo comes down to around only 2,600 meters for a print job. Now, our current average for short runs is about 10,000 meters. That is still a huge run length for a modern digital press, running at 20 meters per minute while we run at 600 meters per minute in flexo. It just does not make sense for us to switch to digital printing, however sexy it may seem to a lot of people. We will stick with flexo.” Fixed Palette Printing Still, the Drupa visit did have an impact. Not only did VIV order an additional 10 color Comexi flexo press, but Van Kesteren also followed up on something that caught his attention at the show: “I was impressed by the Digital concept of a 7 color system. And I knew that such a system of ‘fixed palette printing’ was being developed by a group of flexo industry suppliers (including

Apex) and used in the label industry. So I decided to take this idea and find a way to make it work on our new press.” And he came up with a name for it: ‘Smart Digital Flexo’: “Our entire production process is completely digital, right up until the moment the ink is transferred to the substrate.” Smart Digital Flexo By using a standard series of seven colors (CMYK plus orange, green and violet), Smart Digital Flexo (SDF) is able to achieve some 90 per cent of all Pantone colors. In this way, VIV does not need to mix and match any custom colored inks. Next to saving time, costs and materials, this also enables the smart combination of different jobs onto the web: “In this way, we aim to offer our customers shorter turn around times at sharper prices.” Getting SDF to work as planned has been a steep learning curve for VIV, explains Van Kesteren: “We really have had to find out pretty much everything all by ourselves. We have been doing many test runs and a lot of measurements to get all elements exactly right: prepress-settings, temperatures, inks, speed. Aniloxes also play a crucial role in the process: you absolutely need a consistent and precisely predictable ink transfer to get SDF to work properly. This is where Apex International and its specially engraved GTT anilox rollers have

greatly helped us to achieve a high level of control.” New range of business opportunities VIV has started to put SDF to practice, and results look promising. The most important thing now, says Van Kesteren, is convincing more customers of SDF’s capabilities. “They need to be able to trust us to deliver on our promises. The end result needs to always match expectations.” In future, Van Kesteren would like to see all of VIV’s presses running SDF jobs only. “For sure, there will always be people emphasizing the 10 per cent of Pantone colors still out of reach of this fixed palette. We, however, like to focus on the 90 per cent we can do and do a lot more efficiently. We are now able to produce 15 jobs on this one press per day, instead of just 5. SDF saves us a huge amount of time in changeovers and set up times. Having this technology in place, and having found the right suppliers and partners such as Comexi and Apex, who also want to take flexography to a whole new level to expand our capabilities in this field, even jobs of just 1,000 meters run length will be within our reach. This will open up a whole new range of business opportunities for VIV.”

By Jeanine Graat

NPES REBRANDS AS ASSOCIATION FOR PRINT® TECHNOLOGIES NPES - The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies announces a name change to the Association for Print Technologies (APT). The new identity is both a nod to the Association’s signature annual event PRINT® which it has produced since 1968, and also marks a defining moment in the Association’s 85-year history. Additionally, the new name signifies progress toward the completion of its Strategic Business Plan for the industry. “This rebrand of the organization signals a significant turning point, not just for our Association, but for the entire printing and imaging industry,” states Thayer Long, President, Association for Print Technologies. “The convergence in our industry is essentially in the rearview mirror. Now, as our new name more clearly expresses, our broader scope and direction are focused on greater alignment among the commercial printing and imaging value chain. This ‘next phase’ must happen in order for all stakeholders to benefit,” Long continues. On the heels of the Association rebrand, and slated for the weeks ahead are preview announcements on a compelling new and expanded lineup of programs and services. These include the launch of the Association’s new website,www. PrintTechnologies.org, in Spring 2018. Upcoming Association offerings will span the areas of Research & Market Data, Industry Advocacy & Standards, Events, and Communications. Of special note, a new staff department, dubbed “Community & Industry Development,” has been established to advance programming designed to support businesses throughout the industry value chain, including initiatives that will address Workforce Development and Training. Spearheading the new Community & Industry Development Department, the Association welcomes industry veterans Ken Garner, as Vice President of Business Development and Industry Relations (formerly of Idealliance and NAPL), and Julie Shaffer, as Associate

Vice President of Program and Community Development (formerly of Idealliance and PIA). “To drive the industry forward for decades to come, our Board made the decision to evolve and reposition the organization. Our new identity, as the Association for Print Technologies, reflects the way forward,” states Mark Hischar, APT Chairman and President & CEO, KBA-North America. As part of the organization’s repositioning, a new strategy is also being launched for the signature annual industry event. In 2017, PRINT® was the largest North American show by the number of visitors. Now 100% non-profit and vendorowned, and exclusively produced by the Association for Print Technologies: • The Association has designated its PRINT® brand as the name for the industry’s premier annual event. • PRINT® 18 has been right-sized to a three-day event, and will take place in Chicago, IL, Sunday, September 30 – Tuesday, October 2, 2018, at McCormick Place South. In 2018, the PRINT® event will expand its focus on exceptional business growth opportunities. Specifically, the new strategy will address: • New learning and education formats and topics to align value chain • An emphasis on technology, both printing and other adjacent technologies, which are having a greater influence in today’s marketing world • Outreach to attract new segments within the printing value chain (marketers, influencers), • Demonstrate the collision of printing and digital channels with new solutions to meet demands of omni-channel marketing For complete information about the Association, its programs, and its member companies, Visit: www.PrintTechnologies.org or Phone: 703/264-7200.

HARPER CORPORATION OF AMERICA INTRODUCES THE NEW HARPER EXPO & SOLUTIONS TOUR

In late October 2017, anilox roll supplier Harper Corporation of America announced that beginning in 2018, the company will make several significant format changes to its current and popular Harper Roadshow format. The new format will include an expo segment as well as printer and converter presentations filled with insightful solutions for daily pressroom challenges. It will be the Harper Expo and Solution Tour. New format for the venerable tour Experts from across multiple facets of the printing and packaging industries including flexo printing experts from Harper will be traveling to at least five different locations around the United States of America throughout 2018. While certainly the new format builds upon and is similar to what Harper has done in the past, the newest element is the addition of an Expo segment which centers on the inclusion of up to 24 co suppliers from throughout the industry. To support the strong emphasis on practical application, the presentations will also be solution

focused and oriented. This means, all presentations will have to include solutions to many of the current pressroom challenges that printers and converters face on a daily basis. The Expo will include companies from various areas of the industry such as doctor blade suppliers, ink manufacturers, plate suppliers and prepress companies. The Harper Expo and Solutions Tour will be visiting the following cities in 2018: • Anaheim, California February 15, 2018 • Rogers, Arkansas April 12, 2018 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 14, 2018 • Chattanooga, Tennessee August 16, 2018 • Minneapolis, Minnesota October 25, 2018 These one day free to attend seminars will bring together professionals from across the industry to learn more about how to succeed in the short run by incorporating the latest flexo technology and principles, how to make operations run as efficiently and

competitively as possible, and how to address current pressroom challenges with insightful solutions. Registration is free for printers and converters but seating is limited. Harper advises interested parties to sign up quickly to secure a seat. Print managers and supervisors, prepress managers, graphic designers, purchasing managers, general managers, and ink, plate and prepress suppliers and operators are all encouraged to attend the Harper Expo and Solutions Tour. Why change a good thing? According to Jazmin Siancas, Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marketing and event coordinator, the company decided to change the format of their long running Roadshow series in order to create a program that is more beneficial to printers and converters while also giving attendees the chance to visit various table top displays and corporate booths representing a cross section of the industry, from doctor blades to plates, ink companies and beyond. The main goal, said Siancas is for Harper to educate and generate knowledge, tools and insightful solutions to converters and printers in a setting where they can benefit

from educational presentations and also be able to check out the latest products and technologies from other companies throughout what Harper terms their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Expo segmentâ&#x20AC;?. The length and duration of the new seminars will be similar to what Harper has done in the past. Each location will be the same as far as the duration of the seminar. It will be a one day seminar that will start in the morning and end in the afternoon. Lunch will be provided to attendees free of charge. Space is generally available for between 50 and 75 participants. Harper will also display its latest products and technologies on table top displays from all four of their divisions. by Michael Buchsbaum

COLOR MANAGEMENT FOR FIXED COLOR PALETTE PRINTING Fixed Color Palette printing is a key means of significantly shortening flexo press makeready times. Various software solutions are now available for such types of color management Compared with other conventional printing processes, flexo still has great potential for productivity improvements. Reducing the makeready time for each print job is central to this, which in turn means that fixed color palette printing becomes crucially important. By fixing the colors of the individual press units, it is possible to significantly reduce wash up demands, whilst also making it possible to assemble ganged-up formes for print jobs featuring different colors but printed on the same substrate. It is no longer necessary to match individual spot colors during press makeready because these have already been converted to the press color palette during the prepress activities.

Test Charts and the Role in Color Management The action when setting color management up for a fixed color palette (CMYK + orange, violet, and green) printing process is to select the additional inks required and then produce one or more fingerprints with them. In order to be meaningful, the fingerprinting must be done under precisely controlled printing conditions. Alongside excellent register maintenance, the key to reliable and effective fixed color palette printing are the quality of the fingerprint and the ability of the printer to precisely adhere to the resulting parameters during the subsequent production run.

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In contrast to the fingerprinting of process colors, there are no industry standard test charts for fixed color palette printing. As a rule, each solution for generating color profiles for fixed color palette printing uses its own test charts. It is therefore significantly more difficult to use just a single test print to compare different solutions for generating color profiles, but it is not impossible. Solutions for generating color profiles generally offer the possibility of directly measuring printed test charts or of importing color measurement data from an external measurement solution. If one has the software to convert color measurement data for different test chart layouts then, with a little effort it is possible to prepare a fingerprintâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measured data for various different profiling solutions. Color logicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ColorAnt L program offers comprehensive and powerful tools for this.

Workflow Solutions and PDF Based Tools A number of color management solutions for fixed color palette printing are components of prepress workflow systems. Equinox for example forms part of the Esko workflow, the Prinergy workflow has Kodak Spotless for Flexo, whilst Heidelbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prinect workflow offers Color Tools. In addition to direct integration into the specified workflows, these solutions are able to output PDF data for use in other environments. Other solutions work entirely on the basic of image and PDF data and so can be combined with any prepress workflow. Examples include the Colorlogic products CoPrA and ZePrA or GMG OpenColor in combination with the Packz PDF editor. Both types offer image editing tools that generally allow image related individual adjustment and tools for handling spot colors. Generally

Comparison of Pantone Original Colors produced by 7C printing on the one hand and CMYK on the other

speaking, the implementation is semi or fully automated. Typical functions for producing spot color are for example control of the maximum number of channels used to create a spot color control of the minimum tone value and evaluation of the quality of result. What holds true for all the system solutions presented here is that it is possible to profile a seven color printing process, for example but depending upon the job, to actually work with a smaller number of colors. A number of solutions are briefly presented below but these summaries are not full technical descriptions and they do not offer a detailed comparison of the systems. They simply provide an initial guide that users can use as the basis for further tests as appropriate. Equinox Equinox was originally an Artwork Systems product before the company was acquired by Esko. It is the undisputed market leader for setting up a fixed color prepress workflow for flexo printing. Equinox uses a CMYK test chart as the basic for the CMYK fingerprint and a further four channel chart for each of the additional colors that covers the mixed colors using black, the additional ink and the two neighboring CMY process colors.

Internally, several ICC colors profiles are generated for each fingerprint and together these result in a special Equinox profile. Naturally Equinox offers seamless integration into the Esko workflow, which means for example that after fingerprinting it is possible to change the plate setting compensation curve or to automatically adjust the color profile for the fingerprint without having to print out another test forme. Further automation and quality control options are offered by interfaces to the Esko Webcenter or X-Rite ColorCert. Flexo users benefit from the comprehensive flexo prepress expertise offered by Esko and X-Rite and their extensive experience in setting up fixed color palette projects. Kodak Spotless for Flexo Thanks to its printing plate technology in combination with digital workflow system for various printing processes, Kodak has established itself as a serious player in flexo prepress. The Kodak Spotless workflow was originally developed for offset but from 2011 onwards it has been adapted for Kodak NX Flexo. It is primarily aimed at users of Kodak flexo plates and a Prinergy workflow. Internally, Spotless

works with ICC print profiles or ICC Device Link profiles. It also offers tools for optimizing images and spot color in complete documents. GMG Open Color and Packz/ CloudFlow GMG Open Color is based on color management that employs printing process spectral models. This allows small test charts to be used for fingerprint test prints. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more it also allows individual color channels in color profiles to be swapped or added as required. Users can exploit this to generate different versions of fixed color palettes and so, for example could offer specific variants in which the additional color are brand colors to selected customers ordering large volumes of print. In the first stage of its development Open Color was enhancement of GMGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proofing solutions but it now offers additional tools for various production tasks. There is for example a very powerful Photoshop Plugin for adjusting the color of image data, including soft proofing or it can automatically produce spot colors in the Packz PDF editor. The Packz universe now has a complete workflow for the direct control of flexo platesetters in the form of CloudFlow. Taken together, the products offer end to end color management extending right up to GMG proof. GMG Open Color really comes into its own when color management is being used both for high level fixed color palette printing and for printing with alternating spot colors. Colorlogic CoPrA and ZePrA Colorlogic concentrates exclusively on professional tools for color management with ICC Profiles for

characterizing printing processes, with ICC DeviceLink profiles for automated color transformations or with PDF ColorServer. Relying on open standards makes it possible to use color profiles generated by the CoPrA profiling tool in a large number of third party applications that support ICC profiles (e.g. Adobe Photoshop). The ZePrA PDF ColorServer offers very powerful color management for images, spot color or fixed color palette printing that is in the same league as established prepress workflow and that is sometimes even ahead of the pack. Based on spectral measurement data, ColorAnt L offers the possibility of combining color measurement data from CMYK or multicolor fingerprints with measurement data from spot colors or of swapping color channels in the measurement data. Since it is entirely based on open standards, such measurement data can also be used in other manufacturers profiling solutions. Prinect Color Tools Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is the only company involved in offset printing to produce both presses and a complete prepress workflow (Prinect). Color management with the Prinect Color Toolbox for CMYK and fixed color palette is a mature module that is complemented by additional tools. It is further supplemented by the Heidelberg Print Color management package of services, which supports printers in producing inhouse standards. Following the full integration of Gallus and the takeover of BHS, flexo printing now froms part of the Heidelberg portfolio. Over the years,

the Prinect workflow has gradually been expanded to allow formes to be produced for flexo, screen, letterpress and other processes and offset. When imaging flexo plates, the process calibration and screening can be carried out in Prinect. The screened data can be transferred as a TIFF file to any imager or in the near future to the Heidelberg Phoenix UV LED setter. Summary A multitude of color management solutions are now available to exploit the advantages of a fixed color palette either in conjunction with external repro partners or inhouse prepress. The use of PDF as the universal exchange format between the individual production solutions from the various manufacturers means that the user is not absolutely tied to a particular prepress workflow system. On the other hand, successful implementation of fixed color palette printing requires a number of additional steps, such as the printing of multiple jobs using a single formed or the setting up and monitoring of inhouse printing standards. Suppliers of integrated solutions and services

for this whether they be repro shops who work very closely with printers or press suppliers who are active in the field of prepress would make attractive partners for printers.

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A NEW GENERATION OF ANILOX ROLLERS German roll supplier Inometa recently introduced an innovative anilox roller concept. The newly developed anilox rollers of the Inoflex Superior AS generation is provided with an extremely high load bearing ceramic surface offering constant and even ink transfer. Comparative tests carried out at the DFTA technical center confirmed that the combination of an elongated cell shape with the smoother ceramic layer offers certain advantages for printing. The test concluded that anilox rollers, which have such cell shapes, offer a higher ink transfer capacity than standard rollers with hexagonal shaped cells and reduce dot gain when printing. For more than 30 years, Inomerta has been providing new ideas for the development and production of rotary components for all the common printing processes. As a specialist supplier of rollers made of Aluminium and fibre reinforced composites like fiberglass, the company has gained wide expert knowledge to meet the challenges of ever-higher running speeds and wider working widths of contemporary printing and converting machinery. Inometa specializes in high quality lightweight solutions and the development and manufacturing of functional surfaces.

New ceramic coatings The composition of the base roller and the surface quality of the ceramic coating are key elements in the practical use of anilox rollers in high-quality flexo printing as they have an important impact on printing characteristics and long term performance. The Inometa ceramic coatings consist of chromium oxide ceramic with a high grade of hardness of about 1300 Hv 0.3 and therefore are very resistant to abrasive wear. Ink trapping and ink release properties of anilox rollers are positively affected by the respective no-stick properties. The above-mentioned facts served as the starting point for the development of a new generation of anilox rollers manufactured by Inometa. They are characterized by an improved ceramic coating to achieve constant and even ink release properties, and long lasting resistance to aggressive chemicals, which are often found in printing inks, and washing detergents.

The 2% single screen dots are printed much more concisely and with a higher edge definition when using the Inoflex Superior AS anilox rollers.

Properties of the Inoflex Superior AS ceramic surface The new Inoflex Superior AS ceramic surface offers a structure with low residual porosity and reasonable distribution of porosity. Because of the ideal melting properties of the ceramic surface, very smooth cells can be produced during lase engraving which results in improved ink release properties of the cells. In addition to the shape of the cells, the smooth interior walls are important criteria for the improved ink transfer properties of this generation of anilox rollers. Test runs at the technical centre The technical properties of the new anilox rollers mentioned above have been confirmed by print tests run at the DFTA technical centre in Stuttgart, Germany. The comprehensive test included a total of 60 different types of engravinfs, differing in terms of ink volume capacity, screen rulings and surface characteristics. The rollers were tested on machines running at speeds of up to 400m/min (1312 fpm). For comparison, a standard anilox roller with a hexagonal cell shape and high quality corrosion protection of the surface was used. Compared to standard anilox rollers, the new Inoflex Superior AS ceramic surface showed lower dot gain for all volumes ranging from 3-10 cm3/ m2 and screen rulings of 180-400 L/ cm. With the new ceramic surface higher ink release properties and therefore higher ink transfer rates are achieved, cumulating in higher ink densities of between D 0,3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0,4. The ideal ink transfer properties are also confirmed by the comparison of video microscope images of the screen areas. With the Inoflex Superior AS anilox rollers, particularly the 2% screen dots are printed much more

concisely and with higher edge definition. Corrosion Resistance In practical use, anilox rollers are exposed to many ink systems and washing detergents, so corrosion resistance to aggressive chemicals is a crusial issue. To prove the high corrosion resistance of the Inoflex Superios AS anilox rollers, the roller surface was directly exposed to aggressive liquids ranging from pH 5 (acidic) to pH 14 (strong alkaline). This pH range is especially critical when using anilox sleeves with an Aluminium surface layer, as the protective oxide layer is ineffective when exposed to strong acidic or strong alkaline liquids respectively. While he surfaces of standard anilox rollers showed considerable undersurface corrosion when exposed to highly concentrated hypochlorite for 192 hours, the Inoflex ceramic surface showed absolutely no signs of damage. Engraving characteristics of the anilox rollers In addition to the corrosion resistance of the new surface material of the Superior AS, the ceramic layer offers futher significant advantages. Its melting properties result in excellent engraving characteristics, which enables the reduction of the depthto-volume ratio by at least 30%. The improved cell shape results in significantly increased ink transfer volumes and simplies the washing procedures of the anilox rollers. One of the benefits for the user includes reduced washing cycles, which in turn contributes to the general aim of reducing make-ready times. Elongated cell shape The test runs carried out at the

Compared to standard anilox rollers, the Superior AS surface offers significantly stronger corrosion resistance.

DFTA technical center confirmed the favorable printout properties of the elongated cell shape. The print samples clearly indicated, that compared with the hexagonal shape design. Throughout the whole range from highlight dots to solid areas, they offer a more even and vibrant printed image.

The excellent engraving characteristics of the Inoflex Superior AS surface offers distinctly improved cell shapes result in increased ink transfer volumes.

Summary The new generation of anilox rollers provided with the Superior AS ceramic surface and elongated cell shapes offers important properties and typographical benefits. The high quality of the ceramic surfaces and its corrosion resistance properties result in improved print process reliability and ensures long-term repeatability of the ink transfer properties. Altogether, the increased reliability results in therefore reduced print production costs. The improved ink transfer properties achieved with lower cell volumes extends the fields of application of this new generation of anilox rollers. Highlight dots and solid areas are reproduced in a much more homogeneous way. The better volume-to-depth relation of the elongated cell design has a positive effect on the washing processes. In particular, this reduces machine downtimes due to shorter washing times, the consumption of washing detergents and the costs for purchase and disposal of such detergents. Compared to standard products, the new anilox roller generation of the Inoflex Superior AS offers the same layer thickness with 20% to 25% lower cell volumes. All these factors taken together means that there are many good reasons to use this new generation of anilox rollers. by Dieter Finna

The print results achieved with elongated anilox cell shape show a more even printed image from the highlight dots to solid areas.

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MACDERMID-NEW PREMISES, INVESTMENT AND A NEW PLATE The German company Hans-Joachim Heinerich GmbH which was founded in 1968 currently has a workforce of 50 employees. The independent family run company is one of the best known and most successful prepress service providers for corrugated post printing in Southern Germany. A Forward Looking Relocation In June 2017, the company relocated to new premises consisting of 2000 sqm (21.528 sqft) of production space plus adjacent offices. Thus, the company now has a considerable amount of space for administration customer service, prepress department, quality management, former production, mounting and shipment at their disposal. “The space requirements at the new premises are designed for future growth,” states Markus Olbrich managing director of Heinerich. Production manager Steffan Botsch adds: “We are now in the favorable position to continuously adapt our technical equipment according to the ever changing needs of the market.” State of the Art Processing Technology and a New Plate As a result of this spatial extension,

the company recently installed the fully automatic FlexoLine Standard machine supplied by Glunz and Jensen for the manufacturing of flexo plates. The configuration of the unit includes the process steps, rinsing, drying and post exposure. In addition the drying and post exposure station is provided with a storage area for a total of 16 plates and with a plate transfer system reasonably positioned between the drying and the post exposure units. The implementation of the FlexoLine Standard was initiated at the same time as a comprehensive evaluation of various plate materials manufactured by leading suppliers. The flexo plate type Digital MAF with an integrated flat top dot structure is principally designed to serve the needs of corrugated post printing applications. “This photopolymer

plate delivers fast rinsing times and reduces fluting on certain corrugated substrates”, states Dirk Abels sales manager at MacDermind for the Areas of Southern Germany, Austria and Switserland. This plate type is available in thicknesses of 2.84, 3.18, 3.94, 4.70, 5.00, 5.50, 6.00 and 6.35mm (0.11”, 0.13”, 0.16”, 0.19”, 0.2”, 0.22”, 0.24” and 0.25). “The Digital MAF not only improves the reproduction of the finest highlight elements in corrugated post printing but also provides high mechanical resistance and shows no stickiness. Moreover, the ink transfer performance capabilities result in rich colors and good ink coverage at the solid areas. This facilities consistent print results no most corrugated substrates”, explains Dirk Abels. MacDermid a Versatile Plate Supplier Headquartered in Atlanta, GA/USA, MacDermid Graphics Solutions is one of the world’s leading producers and distributors of flexo plates for package and label printing. The wide portfolio of products and services also includes the award winning Lux ITP plate technology, offering all the benefits of the flat top dot structure without the need for additional platemaking steps or devices. Both the thermal and solvent based processes can be used for platemaking.

Digital MAF is a photopolymer flexo plate with a flat top dot structure optimized for corrugated post printing, which results in significantly reduced fluting. In addition, no additional platemaking steps or device are required for the platemaking process. Solvit LO is a new generation of low odor wash out solutions developed by MacDermid to improve the effectiveness of flexo platemaking processes and to increase the safety of production environments. Good washing results are achieved even with large relief depths and finest highlight details. Moreover, Solvit LO significantly reduces the required drying times and avoids the buildup of polymers within the plate processor. Source: News Flexo & Gravure Global

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The Challenges of Fingerprinting the Presses that will be Printing Your Files including (in my case) flexo, gravure and offset, on different substrates like multi laminated foil/plastics/paper for the lids, laminated paper for the labels, shrinkable plastic for bottle, cardboards for wraps and laminated micro corrugated for boxes.

When you undertake an important packaging prepress project with unusually tight tolerances for the re production of both spot and process colors (and eventually also spot colors converted to process), you will need a customized color profile of the press. This happened to me last year, at a previous employer, I was in charge of the prepress for the U.S. relaunch of a worldwide dairy company’s flagship yogurt product. The reasons why you need customized press profiles may be the same as mine, or at least have similar final requirements: • The same graphics will be printed in different substrates and or different printing systems,

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Once you are sure and committed to making your own printer specific profiles, you will need to schedule time on the press which is always scarce in my experience.

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All of them will use the same high quality and complex graphic containing process and spot colors, spot converted to process, and varnishes/lacquers for finishing and protection.

These two points mean you need to achieve color consistency among a wide range of substrates and or printing processes and systems, each with its own tolerances and particularities in tonal and color reproduction. Achieving the greatest accuracy means the least tolerance on each and will ensure the differences between them are minimized as much as possible. THE WHY “Each of the printers you will be working with has its own printing specs and ways to manage its workflow, making printing plates, cylinders, etc. So, first the golden rule is communicate with all the printers involved in the project in order to make sure all details and ways of working are agreed upon.” It is also typical that they their own pre-existing press profiles, so why go to the trouble (and expense) of asking for you your own “printer specific” examples for the project? Let’s see what type of color profiles the printers may have: • Older press profiles not necessarily updated with the latest changes in inks, substrate suppliers, brands of the plates used, season of the year (if the facility is not climatized), etc. • Updated press profiles, but ones which are “averaged” between many different presses, or between different printing facilities, or even with other overseas locations belonging to the same printing company. In this case, the averaged profiles are good for all the presses but not good enough for any press

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in particular if you are looking for the greatest possible accuracy in color reproduction. They may have accurate and updated color profiles, including special proprietary profiles (non ICC) for their proofing systems (like MX4) which can be exported as ICC if needed, depending on the type of tools and software available in your workflow. Again, the accuracy and “authenticity” of these profiles need to be triple checked; trust but verify is the best policy for success in this area. So, if time and budget allow, you may still want to make your own profiles.

The What Once you are sure and committed to making your own printer specific profiles, you will need to schedule time on the press which is always scarce in my experience. It is usually advisable to be there for the pressrun of your fingerprint or characterization, in order to make sure the press crews are taking seriously enough the printing specs you provide, the press settings, plate making, etc. and not thinking it’s “just another test” to be done as quickly as possible. All the press settings and conditions, inks, plates and substrate, need to be as good and at the same time as standard as possible, according to the needs of the project. You will certainly prepare your own fingerprinting layout containing color test charts like IT8.7 or similar according to the profiling software you are using and also several scales, marks and control elements that will help verify registration, densities, L*a*b* values, dot gain, gray balance, quality of the printing and plates, etc. It is also always advisable to add some ISO standard images and or images belonging to the project you are working on, as well as some solids and scales of original

Once the fingerprint layout is printed under the best and most controlled possible conditions meaning controlling densities of the process solids and L*a*b* of the spot colors, dot gain, small dots reproduction, registration, gray balance, absence of printing defects like pinholing, slurring, banding, etc. You will need to scan the color charts with an automatic spectrophotometer and build the profiles with the software tool you have available. Never compromise on the quality of the pressrun for the fingerprint, as the accuracy and ultimately the success of the color conversion in prepress depend on it.

Different black generations (UCR/GCR) used to build slightly different profiles from the same spectrometric data set in order to customize separation in different areas of the images in prepress.

Scanning color charts with a spectrophotometer in order to build color profiles.

spot colors to be used (if any). If the spot colors will be used in halftones or integrated/mixed into the images on the graphics, you may need to also add some customized color test charts that include these inks depending, again, on you having the proper software tools to make multicolor profiles (CMYK +n, MXN, etc.).

Usually the printers have already performed press optimization/ linearization before even printing the fingerprint layout for the substrate on which you need to print. This means they have the basic press settings, inks, plate making curves, etc. because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely they have been chosen to print these specific pieces based on their previous experience with the type of substrate and requirements needed. This can even include other areas of certification like scratching resistance, friction properties/COF, ink migration and lamination barriers for the food and other industries, etc. The How Once you have the basic scanning of the color charts with the spectrophotometer, it comes time to build the actual color profiles. We are in an industry heavily conditioned by the tools available, as not all the profile building software, proofing systems, color conversion workflows, etc. have the same features and options. So, you will need to decide the best options in using your available tools for the project. In general, my advice is to build slightly different profiles with the same data using, if needed, different black

generation (UCR/GCR), total area coverage or total ink limit (TAC), black ink limit, black starting point, etc., all according again to the options in your tools. The TAC, black ink limit and type of black generation (UCR/GCR) are among the specs you will need to confirm with the printer even before preparing the layout for fingerprint, since the may be set in the images and files included in this layout. But, there is always some room to play and test other options if you consider what will be needed. Depending on the actual space available on the press for the fingerprint, you may want to add some options to test, like same image with different TAC values, etc. The slightly different profiles with the same data may be some options with different black generation: • Black generation set to “none” (the converted image will have only CMY and no black at all) can be used, for example, in a background where process colors and a spot color are mixed in gradations or any halftones, so the risk of moire increases if five colors (including K) were to be mixed simultaneously in some areas. • Black generation set to “medium” can be used in standard CMYK full color images with average tonal and color ranges, like fruits

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for example. Black generation set to “heavy” (or even maximum) can be used in images with a limited tonal and or color range like, for example a very light and quite neutral vanilla flower, where the tonal range in the white petals is between 15% and 2%. Here, the heavy black generation can help maintain the neutrality of the gray balance in the press and, at the same time, avoid having too small dots in CMY by leaving in the black channel all or most of the dots in the neutral areas.

The way to work with different black generation profiles on the conversion from the source to target color space in the prepress process may vary according to the tools used. If you are planning to use “profile to profile” conversion in Adobe Photoshop, you may want to use different layers with “smart objects” included, as smart objects are not affected by this type of color conversion. By using a custom automation script in Photoshop (or manually), smart objects can be converted back and forth to standard layers and thus use different black generation profiles for different areas of the images, even if they are in the same main layered file. As a special note, beware of embedded profiles that can have

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Converting spot colors to process using custom profiles and controling Delta E and CMYK components of the resulting color.

an uncertain result in the printer’s workflow when making the plates, since the recognition and use of embedded profiles depends on the workflow’s settings. It is better and more reliable to use straight actual color conversions of the files to make sure the results obtained in prepress and proofing will be the same when the plates are created and used in the press, with no difference in separations, black generation, small dots (highlights), etc. The Extra Another potential use for these custom color profiles is high accuracy conversion of spot color to process whenever needed with a tight control of Delta E, and final process components of the converted CMYK color. Using this type of tool, a very close conversion (whenever the target gamut allows) can be achieved by minimizing the Delta E and at the same time controlling the number of separations and dot percentage of the resulting conversion that can later be applied in prepress, either manually in a software like Adobe Illustrator or in other conversion tools either in a more automatic way or using conversion scripts.

In this case, a custom spot color was measured using a connected spectrophotometer. Then, selecting the type of Delta E to be used (Delta E 2000, in this example), the number of resulting channels or separations (two channels) was manually chosen. The individual components of the two participating channels (cyan and magenta, in this case) can be also manually adjusted and have a live feedback on screen of the approximate visual difference and the exact Delta E to be expected after the conversion. This way, any very small dot percentage of an undesirable component (0,7% yellow, for example) can eventually be eliminated and still have a workable conversion within the chosen Delta E range. The result, however needs to be verified in practice and for this the high end proofing system is an invaluable tool, since it has also been calibrated using the color chart scanned from the fingerprint layout, thus being able to predict with high accuracy the color results to be obtained later on the press. This approach is particularly useful in packaging prepress versus a more generic or automatic conversion that is less controlled, thus producing less predictable results that can include an undesirable small dots percentage of some process channels and or higher Delta E difference with the original spot color. The Recap • Sometimes “printer specific” color profiles from the press may be needed for a particular packaging prepress project, especially if it involves same type of complex graphics being printed in different printers and or different printing systems. For this, it is necessary to fingerprint

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(characterize) the press for the particular substrate and printing conditions required by the project. Never compromise in the quality of the fingerprinting run and beware of the potential “it’s just another test” attitude of the press crew. The later color conversion in prepress depends on the quality and accuracy of the fingerprint. Slightly different color profiles can be created from the same spectrometric data set obtained from the color charts in the fingerprint. These can be used to make different separations

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as needed in different areas of the graphics by independently controlling the black generation (UCR/GCR) and even the TAC, black ink limit, etc. Special conversion software can be used to convert spot color to process when needed by tightly controlling the Delta E and the results in the separations, avoiding by example small dot percentage in undesirable channels that can affect the quality or evenness of the color reproduction in the press. By Antonio de Llamas

Label News MPS TO ESTABLISH DIRECT PRESENCE IN ASIA

MPS has identified Asia as a market with ‘significant growth potential’. The new office in Kuala Lumpur will extended its presence and level of service offered in the region. ‘These are very exciting times for MPS in Asia,’ commented Wim van den Bosch, MPS CEO. ‘With our official MPS Asia office in Malaysia, a demo center in Japan and regional representation in the complete Southeast Asia region, our presence will be vast with a strong service network for existing and new MPS customers. We are ready to show Asia how MPS is truly “Operator Focused, Results Driven”.’ Tim Klappe has been appointed MPS Asia-Pacific managing director. ‘Asia is a market with significant growth potential,’ said Klappe. ‘MPS has already built a reputable name in the Asian label and flexible packaging industry. ‘Needed was elevated local MPS presence and service, which will now be offered. I am honoured to be part of this well-respected, innovative organization and excited to help bolster its market share in Asia.’

INDONESIAN COMPANY DIVERSIFIES TO DIGITAL LABEL PRINTING

Cahaya Jakarta Group in 2017 created an independent company, Theia, for its digital label printing business in Jakarta. Danny Lim, sales and marketing director at Theia, explained: ‘The new company is dedicated to digital label printing and specializes in short runs and customized printing with quicker turnaround time. Life cycle, batch cycle and repeat orders are on a decline so we look at variance in

products and value that can be offered to customers. ‘This is possible with digital equipment because we can print as less as one label and don’t need plates. The sales and marketing strategy for digitally printed labels, thus, is different from its parent company because we cater to different requirements of customers. Hence, the decision was taken to create a separate entity.’ Anything less than 2000 linear meters is considered short run at Theia. The flexography business of the group normally requires between 2000 to 4000 linear meters, depending on the complexity of the job, to start production.

LABELEXPO ASIA 2017 CLOSES WITH RECORD VISITORS

Held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), Labelexpo Asia 2017 attracted 20,084 buyers up 19.9 percent from 2015. Expanding its feature content and show footprint, Labelexpo Asia 2017

featured 300 exhibiting companies, including 80 first time exhibitors. The event was used to launch and present flexo and digital presses, with at least 54 working machines demonstrated live on the show floor. For example, the HP Indigo WS6800, Xeikon 3500, Domino N610i and Durst Tau 330E, shown by Fuji Xerox, were presented as part of the Digital Trail feature area at the show. Other significant machinery presentations included the M5 Excellence inline UV flexo press from Bobst and Zhejiang Weigang Machinery’s ZJR330/450 flexo printer and ZX-320/450 intermittent label offset press. Label Source exhibited the YTP-260R6C+1 full rotary letterpress printing machine, while Codimag and IST showed a UV LED semi-rotary offset press. Brotech presented its SDF 520 multifunctional finishing system for digitally printing labels and packaging while Luster Light launched new proofing equipment at the show. Asia has the biggest demand for labels by volume and with 42 digital suppliers at this year’s show, it really highlights just how much the market is shifting towards short runs.

KMART AUSTRALIA DEPLOYS DIGITAL PRINTING FOR IN-STORE PERSONALIZED LABELING

Kmart Australia has purchased more than 200 Afinia Label desktop label printers from Rawson Print to launch its in-store label printing campaign. The printers utilize HP thermal inkjet technology. The Afinia Label L301 Industrial color label printer is based on the HP OEM Scanning Imager 850 and offers color in 4800 x 1200 optimized DPI. Kmart Australia is marketing the in-store personalized labeling experience for Christmas shoppers in more than 200 stores

around the country, with the desktop printers delivering personalized labels for jars of popular spread brands Vegemite and Nutella, exclusively instore, for holiday gift-giving. The chain is planning to expand personalized promotions to additional brands and holidays in the future. Michael Boyle, general manager, Graphics Solutions Business, Asia Pacific and Japan, HP, said: ‘As brands continue to look for ways to connect with their audiences, we are seeing a growing trend of mass personalised packaging, including desktop label printing campaigns in stores. HP is powering the trend with flexible and affordable in-store printing solutions that make it possible to offer an individual, memorable experience for its customers.’

CLONDALKIN DELIVERS CHRISTMAS CHEER WITH FESTIVE YOGURT LIDS

Pre-cut lids manufacturer Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury has produced festive lidding for gourmet yogurt brand The Collective, using mirror printing technology to bring cheer

to consumers this Christmas. Nine different designs of the 7-color printed polyester lids have been produced, each one featuring a Christmas joke with the punchline revealed upon opening. Sam Thomas, from the marketing team at The Collective brand owner Epicurean Dairy, said: ‘The Christmas seals allow us to get our consumers to interact with the brand and the mirror print technology in particular helps put a smile on people’s faces and feel positively about The Collective over the festive period.’ John Chadwick, managing director at Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury, added: ‘We’re delighted to see our mirror printing technology being used so successfully for The Collective brand and look forward to spreading some Christmas cheer over the festive period.’ Cleaning range rebrands with shrink sleeves Easy Cleaning Solutions has rebranded part of its Easy household and utility range with decorative shrink sleeves from Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury. Two variants of the sleeves have been printed using 8-color UV flexo, for the one-liter fabric conditioner and 750ml liquid detergent products. Reverse printing has been used to protect the print from discoloration and damage from liquid spills. A PET sleeve also provides a scuff resistant cover for the print. Tom Brooks, commercial director at Easy Cleaning Solutions, formerly Jeyes, commented: ‘We decided to move away from the original label packaging and opted for a shrink sleeve solution as it offered us the high-end, quality feel that we wanted for this particular range.

These are premium products and therefore it’s essential that we use superior packaging designs. Alastair Bearman, sales and marketing director at Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury, added: ‘This is a great example of how shrink sleeves can really help premiumize a brand. Brands can create outstanding shelf appeal by maximizing the print area and by using high definition UV flexo, which gives gravure quality at a competitive price.’

New Jakarta Facility Supports Emerging Demand For Eco-Friendly Beverage Packaging Formats Crown Asia Pacific, a division of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) www.crowncork.com, celebrated the opening of its new beverage can manufacturing plant in Jakarta, Indonesia at the opening ceremony held yesterday. The facility is Crown’s 16th beverage can plant in the Asia Pacific region and its first in Indonesia. Located just outside of Jakarta in the city of Karawang, the plant is in close proximity to soft drink, juice and other beverage manufacturers concentrated in the Indonesian capital. The single-line facility will produce standard 330ml two-piece aluminum beverage cans and a range of specialty sizes and has an initial annual capacity of 650 million cans. It has been designed to be able to accommodate a second can line with similar capacity and a beverage end production line, allowing Crown to continue to scale up production when market demand calls for it. “There is great potential for the beverage can in Indonesia thanks to strong economic growth and a sizable population, which ranks as the fourth largest in

the world,” said Robert Bourque, President of Crown Asia Pacific. “In addition to helping refresh a brand’s packaging mix, beverage cans offer several key attributes that appeal to the country’s rapidly urbanizing consumer base, including portability, chillability and sustainability. We look forward to supporting local, regional and international customers from this new location.” The new plant create over 100 jobs in its first year, with more than 90% of its workforce coming from the local community. About Crown Holdings, Inc. Crown Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading supplier of packaging products to consumer marketing companies around the world. World headquarters are located in Philadelphia, PA. For more information, Contact In Asia Pacific: Evelyn Lim, Assistant to the President, CROWN Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd Tel: 65 6229-4880; Email:Evelyn.Lim@ crowncork.com.sg For editorial inquiries: Thomas T. Fischer, Vice President Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs; Tel: (215) 552-3720

Email: thomas.fischer@crowncork.com Source: www.crowncork.com

10 Things Printers Can Teach Designers Designers are visual people and the best way to teach a visual person is to show them. Graphic designers are also curious people who generally like to see how things work. We all walk around with our cameras all day, lauding their efficiency for email, Slack, twitter and more. But it is the instant transmission of images and videos that make showing as easy-as-pie. Here are 10 ways you can use your smartphone to reach out to your designer clients, add value to your company website and make life easier for yourself. (Sales managers, appoint one person to collect this kind of knowledge and disseminate to the whole sales team). 1.

Coated Versus Uncoated. Sit down with a designer and have two paper swatchbooks in front of you and explain coated paper

Bleeds. Take a video of your guillotine cutter in action, preferably a job with a bleed. Zoom in on the crop marks, text it to your designer client. (Put it on your website too!)

versus uncoated paper. You will have saved yourself countless hours of â&#x20AC;&#x153;it looks like postcard paperâ&#x20AC;? descriptions, and the like.

Grain. Look in your sample room for something with a nice black solid. Pull two samples. Fold one sample with the grain. Fold the other sample against the grain. Put them side-by-side folds-up and photograph with your phone. Open the image and crop to relevant image area and mark as a favorite in your phone for quick retrieval.

Waste=Cost. Show your client an illustration of paper waste for various page sizes. Here are some examples you can use: (Put it on your website too!)

Quantity matters. Walk into your pressroom and film a sheetfed press at the delivery end while it is running for 30 seconds. Confirm run speed with the pressman. Text video to client explaining that’s how long it takes for (insert quantity here) brochures/posters, etc. to run through the press and why they should opt for digital printing on this short run. (At 15,000 iph 30 seconds is 125 sheets, 8-up that’s 1,000 pieces!)

Printing is green. Calculate how many pounds of trim, corrugated and electronics you recycle each year (if your trim is picked up and weighed by a recycler they have this info). Next time your vendor picks up a container run out to the parking lot and take a pic. Put the photo on your website with an infographic of the tonnage you recycle annually. Explain that the trim and corrugated goes into future recycled paper products.

Ink can change color. Show your client this photo. Explain that the ink formulas with a high percentage of opaque white (basically all pastels) will shift within a year (swatch on left was two years old, on right six months, when photographed). Share that pastel colors are great for a short-lived item like an invitation and not so great for an identity system.

Paper makes a difference. Next time you’ve got an attractive job with photos that’s going to run on white paper, order some extra sheets of ivory, canary

and grey uncoated paper. Add those colored sheets to the job and photograph the same detail area of all four colors. Make a montage (easy with the Layout app for iphone). Send this montage to a client who is wondering about running a job on colored stock and put it on your website too. 9.

How to read a swatchbook. Oh boy, if I had a penny for every time a customer found the “perfect paper” in a swatch book and placed an order specifying that sheet only to find out there wasn’t enough, or it wasn’t stocking or that the chosen color had been discontinued this is a great topic to discuss at a quick lunch with a new customer. Text her an image showing how to look up the date of a swatchbook. Then bring her some lunch and a few swatchbooks and show her how to “read” it.

they do. But do they bring value to a business owner? If staff is reacting/ interacting at the 100-ft. level, how are they going to interact at the 30,000-ft. level with intention? Focus on the little things with intention and planning and then the 30,000-ft. questions aren’t as scary. What are your clients’ plans for next year? Are you discussing budgets internally? Are they planning on launching any new products or services within the next six months? These conversations are really easy when “what do I need a bleed for” is taken care of. Joyce has launched aKickstarter campaign to fund the printing of her book, “Designing For Print.” The book provides proven advice for designers on how to cost, schedule and build projects for success in digital, offset, letterpress or flexo printing.

10. Art takes time. Text your idea of a rudimentary schedule to your client as a pdf graphic that they can print out and pin to their idea wall. Next time they are working with a client to develop a timeline, they won’t guess and it saves both them and you a call/ email. I know that some will think that answering questions and fielding problems bring value to a client, and

By Marina Poropat Joyce

Food and beverage industry

TOP 10 GLOBAL Consumer Trends for 2018

the brands and issues that matter to Genetic make-up and extended them.” augmented reality are among the top 10 consumer trends for 2018, The top 10 global consumer trends for according to a new Euromonitor this year are: International report. “Although the 1 Clean lifers: Consumers adopting consumer market still faces hurdles, clean-living, more minimalist lifestyles, such as country-specific regulations, where moderation and integrity are things are improving on the regulatory key. Clustering around educated 20 front, and with the market continuing to 29-year-olds, a new generation of to evolve, it is likely that further “straight edge” consumers has grown innovative start-ups will invest in up knowing deep recession, terrorism new technologies,” says report and troubled politics, and has a wider author Alison Angus, Euromonitor worldview than previous generations. International’s head of lifestyles. Convenient Shopping 2 The borrowers: A new generation of community-minded sharers, renters It forecasts that global internet retail and subscribers is reshaping the sales will increase in value by a economy, making conspicuous further 3 per cent this year. “Online consumption a thing of the past. captures consumers’ interest with Rejecting material goods in favour the convenience of the hassle-free, of experiences and a freer lifestyle, anytime, anywhere shopping they which has characterised the buying crave. The ability to see and touch habits of millennials for the past few products before buying is a bonus. years, is a trend that continues to This is in part why the in-store shopping evolve and spread. experience remains appealing, with 88 per cent of global sales in value terms still being made in-store 3 Call-out culture: Whether it is airing a grievance on Twitter, sharing a viral last year,” says Angus. “This year message or signing an e-petition, consumer expenditure is expected consumers are having their say. to grow at its strongest rate since “Hashtag activism”, while not new, is 2011. Overall, we will see consumers rapidly gaining momentum as internet continuing to question their values, use explodes and more people have priorities and purchasing decisions; access to social media. deepening their engagement in

4 It’s in the DNA – I’m so special:

motivations of the companies that create them, and are tired of hearing People’s growing curiosity about empty rhetoric and soothing words of their genetic make-up – what makes assurance. them so special – and a rising interest in personalised health and beauty are fuelling demand for home DNA 8 Co-living: This trend has blossomed among millennials and the over-65s kits. Target consumers range from in the residential space. It is a form of the “worried well” and those curious housing where residents share living about their origins to hardcore fitness space and a set of interests and and nutrition fanatics. values. The trend stems from hyperurban hubs that have embraced the 5 Adaptive entrepreneurs are sharing economy as a lifestyle choice. increasingly seeking flexibility in their lifestyles, and are prepared to take risks. Millennials especially have an 9 I-designers: The lingering impact of the global financial crisis has entrepreneurial nature, shifting away encouraged prime, working-age from the “traditional” nine-to-five older millennials and gen X-ers to career toward one that affords more re-evaluate their spending habits. freedom. Simultaneously, the rise of the sharing economy, with pioneers 6 View in my roomers will be such as AirBNB and Uber, is eroding connecting perception and reality their desire to own goods (see The this year, merging digital images Borrowers trend). with physical space. Consumers will be able to visualise products before they try or buy, both in-store and 10 The survivors: Ten years on from the credit crunch that heralded the online. The advent of even more start of the Great Recession, the sophisticated smartphones has frugal mindset of consumers remains given this demographic access to entrenched. Despite improving greater functionality, including AR economies, rising incomes and falling technology. unemployment, the gap between rich and poor is highly visible, and 7 Sleuthy shoppers: With further political those caught between low pay/ upheaval last year, the consumer meagre state benefits and high living trust crisis is deepening and leading to costs are still struggling to cope with greater emotional involvement and austerity. action. Shoppers are still sceptical of mass-produced products and the

SMART LABEL DETECT FOOD SPOILAGE BEFORE IT HAPPENS Researchers from US based Clarkson University have developed smart label a portable and low cost paper based sensor that detects food spoilage. It works through the use of nanostructures and sensors that catch and bind the pre-determined compounds to detect change. With this label, consumers can be informed of when the quality of food or drink products has changed and to what extent the level of change is indicated on the label, which is emitted as a color or electrical change. If commercialized the paper based sensor could transform the food and beverage marketplace.

“If the respective compound that would indicate a spoilt product (that would vary with application) is present the color or electrical current changes,” said Dr. Silvana Andreescu, lead scientist of the study at Clarkson University. “These changes indicate if the compound is present and in what quantity and if there are changes in the initial composition.”

The smart label technology was developed over approximately 10 years. Dr. Andreescu worked closely with a team of students from Clarkson University and postdoctoral associates who contributed to the development of the paper based sensor. The initial testing of the label was initially focused on detecting antioxidants in tea and wine, but Dr. Andreescu believes the technology can be used in other applications and that these first generation sensors open the door to more advanced sensors in the future. The research team is currently working on their second generation sensors to extend the application range, which include pesticides, adulterants and markets for freshness or spoilage of food in several of testing. Source: apfoodonline.com

POPULARITY OF READY MEALS RISING IN SINGAPORE Demand for ready-to-eat (RTE) meals has been on the rise as consumer behavior towards convenience foods grows with busier lifestyles. The food innovation and resource center (FIRC) at Singapore Polytechnic an educational institution partnered with Singapore based Li Da Foods to translate a local dish chicken rending into an RTE meal, in order to tap on the RTE market. After a year, the project yielded a halal and healthy chicken rending in a retort pouch. The RTE meal, comprising chicken breast in gravy, can be prepared within a minute, and its stable shelflife and robust packaging allows the company the company to reach even markets beyond Singapore. To bring food innovation further, the center has also developed RTE food concept such as halal certified vegetarian black pasta and local

favorite Hainanese Chicken Rice with a low glycemic index which can be dispensed from a vending machine. These food concepts showcase the possibilities in food and packaging technologies that will enable local food manufacturers to innovate and grow new market segments. The centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts are critical in fostering a strong food innovation ecosystem that accelerates the development of commercial ready products with global appeal, commented Kee Ai Nah group director, industry and enterprise SPRING Singapore. Source: apfoodonline. com

NEW STORE CONCEPT STORE for LITTLE ONES by “CLAP”

In March 2017, two partners came to CLAP with the desire to create a Shoes Concept Store exclusively for children. We started with a name, “Little Stories”, and the need to create a strong corporate identity, graphically, to create an interior in accordance with it. After several workshops with the client, we came up with three key points that reflected the essence of Little Stories: game, simplicity and adaptability. The corporate image was completed with a system of lines that helps to represent, articulate and express brand identity in different formats. Once the identity and corporate image of Little Stories had been defined, we started the creation of the concept Store. CLAP’s goal was to create an experience for little ones. Every detail is designed to encourage imagination and play but at the same time, highlight the products on display. The interior of 70 square meters is an open space with large windows that make the interior feel like an enormous shopfront. The product exhibition is completely adaptable and allows a change of distribution thanks to the small movable stands

on the floor and the magnetic metal plates on the walls. The corporate image of Little Stories accompanies the user from the exterior of the space to the interior, creating a constant game for the little ones and clearing the space for the products to be proudly showcased. Inside, the light points come from tubes that fall from the ceiling in order to illuminate the exposure and focus the client’s attention on the product. www.retailnews.asia

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MACCMA Annual Dinner ke-29 Every MACCMA (Malaysian Corrugated Cardboard Assosication) held an annual dinner to celebrate their anniversary. The Corrugated Carton Industry in Malaysia was born with the country’s move towards industrialization in the mid1960’s serving the country’s packaging needs. They always has a theme for their annual dinner and on the 29th Annual Dinner the theme was “Cultural Night”. I assume the dress should be represent any culture. I dressed up with my Kimono which has been years just stayed in the closet. This is the opportunity to use it. I do not realize that it should be Malaysia cultural dress – it make me the only one not using Malaysia culture dress (Malay, Indian, Chinese). Quite embossed but some said it was good – I give another flavor to the audience. During the event a lot of Asian Corrugated Companies attended the event, such as Mr Kinardo Ang from Indonesia as well as from Hongkong , Singapore, Thailand, China also attend the event. This event also used to have a fund raise for the association as some corrugated suppliers (machineries, parts and materials) will donate either their products or cash to support

the event, such as Reed Exhibition, Dasong, Tiruna, Eterna, Oji Paper, Siam Paper, etc. MACCMA Objective : 1. To open a formal channel of communication with the Government and other relevant Ministries for exchanges of information and feed-back.

To strive and improve the technical capabilities of members in order to cater to the growing variety of product types demanded by the market. To improve communication between members and working towards solving each others problems.

CSI IS FIRST TO PURCHASE

COMPLETE EFI NOZOMI DIGITAL PRESS & ERP WORKFLOW The past 30 years has seen over 60 independent sheet plants synergize and take control of their business models by integrating key corrugated sheet supply and utilizing the services of CSI. As the innovative leader in sheet feeding to the corrugated industry, CSI has developed and operated 12 highly successful sheet feeder operations, 3 full line box plants, employing 15 state of the art corrugators “CSI has pioneered many things in our industry,” according to CSI Vice President of Manufacturing and Print Jeffery Dumbach, noting that the Nozomi installation means CSI can address the need for analog to digital transformation in corrugated print supply chains that often suffer from excess production, storage and obsolescence costs. “With the existing processes, people carry an excess of inventory. But using the Nozomi press, our customers will purchase precisely what they need when they need it,” he said.

A Complete Inkjet Print, Fiery DFE and Corrugated Packaging Suite Workflow The Renton, Washington based company, which manufactures corrugated sheets for box manufacturers, will be the first dedicated sheet feeder to install the Nozomi press, an award winning, ultra high speed production system that redefines the role of digital print in the corrugated packaging space with throughput speeds up to 6,600 2.6x3.3 foot (800x1,000 cm) boards per hour. The 71 inch (1.8 meter) wide LED inkjet device being installed early this summer will include the complete EFI ecosystem of corrugated production options and products, with six color plus white ink installed on the press and fully integrated top and bottom feeding units. That ecosystem of advanced technologies coming to CSI includes the fast, efficient job processing and color management capabilities of the EFI Fiery NZ 1000 high performance DFE. The Corrugated Packaging

Suite MES workflow coming to CSI facilitates plant wide management and integration of digital production for a full, end to end business and production framework to handle the company’s digital, analog flexo, single face litho lam and litho label operations. Game changing Quality and Efficiency for Warehouse Club and Retail Packaging CSI’s new Press provides high quality output with resolutions up to 360x720 dots per inch with four level grayscale imaging. A 100% in line inspection system on the Press is tied to robust print optimization technologies, including inkjet nozzle, alignment and uniformity correction. CSI executives, according to Dumbach, were “blown away” by the high quality of print the Press provided. Last year, those executives also visited the first Nozomi installation in Spain, where Dumbach said he observed long, uninterrupted

production runs and seamless, end to end production on multiple jobs without downtime for cleaning print heads, stitching or other common changeover issues. Have Nozomi, Will Travel “We completed a thorough analysis of operation and ink costs and saw that there is a pretty big economic advantage to using the Nozomi press,” Dumbach also noted. Typically, he said, the corrugated sheets CSI makes can be shipped within a 250 mile radius to its box manufacturing customers before transportation costs become prohibitive. With the added value that high quality digital print brings to its customers, CSI can affordably distribute its work even further to reach a broader set of potential customers. Source: EFI.

SMURFIT KAPPA CONFIRMS THE PURCHASE OF ITS SECOND BARBERAN JETMASTER LINE

In 2015 company Smurfit Kappa chose the Barberan’s Single Pass digital printer as their first acquisition of the group, as a first step into the investigation of the viability of the sheet fed digital printing technology in a corrugated plant. With the experience and reliable performance achieved during these years and the positive sales results, the company has decided for Barberán once again. On this occasion, the second line will be supplied in 2018 and will have a printing width of 1890 mm. and 6 colors, a printer that increases significantly the production capacity of the current Jetmaster 1260 and reaches 50,000 m2 per shift. The flexibility, customization capacity and the high quality of Jetmaster’s digital printing guarantees a reliable and versatile process for the branding image creation of Smurfit Kappa customers. The model Jetmaster 1890 will be equipped with 6 printing groups that will provide a wider

gamut at a lower ink consumption. This consumption reduction is in addition to the open ink market policy of the Jetmaster printers, with 5 approved ink suppliers (Atonal, KAOChimigraf, TOYO INK GROUP, SAKATA INX, & Quimovil), to achieve an even more competitive product. The new acquisition incorporates the latest technological developments of Barberán and the “Jetmaster Cloud” technology, to control all information and workflow from anywhere and at any time. Thanks to the close collaboration with their clients and the continuous efforts, Smurfit Kappa is now the second client to confirm the purchase of a second Barberan Jetmaster. Earlier this year company Bennett Packaging from the US also ordered their second digital printer from company Barberan being proof that digital is becoming a more important player in the corrugated industry. Source: www.converter.it

SOME IDEAS TO REUSE CARDBOARD This is more than a box. Can’t think of any way to reuse it?

Chances are high that many of the staples currently lying around your house or office are or were once packaged in cardboard. Consumer goods like toothpaste, cereal and snack foods almost always come nestled inside a type of cardboard called paperboard. Pressed flat and coated to lend a more aesthetically pleasing appearance, paperboard is a high-class version of corrugated cardboard, which is commonly used for shipping purposes. In fact, cardboard boxes are the packaging material of choice for 90 percent of products shipped in the United States.

Because of cardboard’s dominating presence in the world’s packaging and delivery sectors, cardboard boxes comprise a whopping 9 percent of the refuse in a typical landfill. But cardboard doesn’t lose its usefulness once the snacks are gone and packages have been opened. Aside from simply recycling cardboard, you can use the material in dozens of creative and practical ways. HowStuffWorks has compiled a list of 10 uses for old cardboard that children, adults and even rodents will

appreciate. Playhouses Many children today have more toys than they know what to do with. Despite an abundance of interactive and electronic toys, a simple cardboard box is often all it takes to ignite a firestorm of imaginative play. A few windows or doors (cut into a square or rectangular box with an adult’s help) transform an otherwise would-be piece of trash into a playhouse with limitless possibilities. This is one toy that offers a smorgasbord of opportunities for playtime, rather than limiting its user to a few battery-powered functions. Kids can decorate their playhouse box or leave it plain. Either way, it’s sure to offer hours of entertainment, particularly on those days that are too rainy, cold or hot to venture outside. Canada has taken the cardboard house idea to the next level. Recycled cardboard is now used as the main building material in

temporary emergency housing camps. Some enthusiasts of these cardboard cribs are hoping that the material will eventually become a staple of residential development [source: Journey to Forever]. Storage Storage is one of the more obvious ways to reuse cardboard. After all, who doesn’t have a box of old invoices, pay stubs and bank statements lying around the house? Cardboard offers many more inspired and useful storage opportunities for seasonal, day-to-day and other purposes. For example, holiday lights can be twisted around cardboard wrapping paper tubes to prevent annoying tangles. Electrical cords, yarn, string and pretty much anything else that may get tangled up can be stored this way, too. Empty liquor boxes with dividers offer a safe place to nestle delicate ornaments, crystal, light bulbs or other breakables. Handymen

may use those same liquor boxes to conveniently separate household hardware, including nuts, bolts, nails and dowels. And if you thought the only thing a paper towel tube was good for was a makeshift megaphone, think again. These cardboard tubes are ideal for keeping important documents like marriage licenses, bills or children’s artwork wrinkle-free. Crafts Crafty people seem to be able to make works of art out of other people’s trash with little or no effort. If you need some ideas or directions, hundreds of Web sites detail thousands of homemade art possibilities, and many of these projects list cardboard as one of the primary building materials. Family Fun provides directions on building superstructures such as cardboard barns, skyscrapers and the like. Other rainy-day ideas include cardboard costumes (such as chicken and washing machine designs), sandals,

spy periscopes, guitars and more. You can find plenty of Web sites that offer instructions on building cardboard trucks, trains, robots and TV sets. The only supplies you’ll need are plenty of cardboard and some everyday items you’re bound to have lying around the house. Surface Protector Why drop 10 or 20 bucks on a fabric drop cloth when you’ve got stacks of cardboard in the garage? Cardboard can act as a drop cloth during painting or furniture staining projects. The thickness and texture of corrugated cardboard keep water and other substances from leaking through, making it an ideal surface protector. Temporary placemats can also be created with just a few rectangular pieces of cardboard and a pretty covering (such as shelf paper or fabric). Virtually any surface can be covered and protected using cardboard. Even if something is spilled on it, the cardboard can still be recycled or used for another purpose. Now that’s thinking green and smart! Source: HowStuffWorks

DS SMITH RECEIVES FOUR AWARDS AT THE FLEXOSTARS DS Smith expertise in flexo printing has been once more rewarded at the Flexostars Awards. For this 31th ceremony, DS Smith received the Golden Flexostar and the Super Flexostar for the work realized for Barberot as well as two Bronze Flexostars : in the Post-Print category on Coated Paper for its box realised for Pik & Croq and in the Preprint category for the case Father Day 2017 realised for Hennessy. The flexo printing Barberot won the Super Flexostar (best award of Flexostar) due to its very thin screen (175 lpi) as well as the HD (High Definition) heliogravure process of the stereos developed by the compagny Esko and allowing a better printing and finer screen dots. By receiving the Golden Flexostar and the Super Flexostar, DS Smith earned the opportunity to compete directly to the FTA Diamond Awards (reward of the best European works in flexo printing) which will take place on May 30th in Milano. That’s a novelty of this

edition in what concerns the rules of the Awards and DS Smith took a chance. Super Flexostar and Golden Flexostar received in the Preprint category for corrugated board: work realised by DS Smith Packaging Velin for Barberot (printing 5 colors (among which 1 silver tinted) + varnish on Kraft Fully Bleached Coated). In white on the picture: the skipper Yvan Bourgnon. He presented the award to DS Smith as part of his presentation to the ATF congress to introduce his association and his future boat « The Sea Cleaners », the first high sea boat to be able to collect the wastes of the oceans, mainly plastic, estimated to 8 millions of tonnes per year. This boat should be launched within the four next years (www.theseacleaners.org/ fr). Bronze Flexostar in the Preprint category for corrugated board: work realised by DS Smith Packaging Sud Ouest for Hennessy (printing 5 colors (among which 1 gold) + varnish on Kraft Coated).

DS SMITH FURTHER INVESTS IN REVOLUTIONARY DIGITAL PRINTING TECHNOLOGY DS Smith, Europe’s leading packaging strategist, is currently installing the second HP T1100S machine at DS Smith in the Germany & Switzerland region, in partnership with HP. Stefan Kunzmann, Sales & Marketing Director at DS Smith in the Germany & Switzerland region, commented: “The digital printing process requires no printing plates, meaning we are able to make last-minute changes and quickly react to current promotional campaigns and events. This can be of particular advantage when implementing marketing campaigns. A significantly shorter time to market is another crucial advantage of digital print for our customers. “Especially in the field of e-commerce, packaging with attention grabbing inner print with the brand design can make the shopper’s “moment of truth” significantly more positive. “Another important aspect for many of our customers is that of product safety. The new printing method enables us to implement track &

trace technologies, i. e. traceability of products, as well as serialisation and anti-counterfeiting technologies to ensure protection against product piracy. This is how we help our customers to boost their turnover and to minimise risks.” DS Smith is investing a total of approx. 15 million euros in the printing press, which has dimensions of 40 metres in length and 5 metres in height and is currently being installed at the DS Smith site in Fulda. Specifically for this purpose, a hall has been gutted and furnished with new foundations. The digital print produced in Fulda will then be transformed to attention grabbing display and packaging solutions not only by the German and Swiss DS Smith sites, but also by the adjacent European DS Smith plants to supply products to our customers throughout Europe. The official unveiling of the new digital corrugated board pre-print machine is scheduled for the second quarter of 2018.

The BCS AutoBOX is quite simply the most advanced box making machine available today. Using serve control, this machine can automatically change from one style and size of box to another in just seconds. All tools are controlled through the simple touch screen and set themselves automatically, so whether you need to produce small boxes, large wraps or more complicated boxes, the BCS AutoBox can make them all at the touch of a button. To complete the potential of the BCS AutoBOX, there is also a range of additional modules available specifically engineered to add increased efficiency and build in even greater to you box making solution. 1. Produce over 100 box styles including 0411, partitions, trays, 0201, pallet boxes and more. 2. Speeds of up to 1.200 boxes/hour 3. Uses 25% of the energy of conventional machines 4. Fully auto-set via touch screen 5. Make blank witches from 100mm to 2600mm x unlimited length 6. Run all types of corrugated, even plastic. Only BCS now has a Just in time solution to short run low cost box making. Our customers can now offer a complete solution to their customers. No longer 5 days + delivery, or custom sizes are extra ! or we can supply filler. Point being if you ship cartons you not only pay for the filler you pay extra for shipping fees, be it courier or air freight. The oversize box could be a complete layer of product ! Your end user may needs 100 / 200 boxes per week, not 1000 which entails a big invoice and having cartons he might not use for a month. This a small manufacturer takes up valuable racking / floor space, for product he did not for a month. With the AutoBox one to two minute set up time and print and variable data. You will have the edge.

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ETERNA LEAD EDGE FEEDER Allows consistent and precise feeding of wide range corrugated board with various board quality. Unique polyurethane wheel surface with grid lifter and air cushion ensures smooth feeding of warp boards with consistency and register accuracy. Front gauge position back and forth adjustable to accommodate variation in gripper margin Fine vacuum suction adjustment through invertor adapts to wide range of stock

DIECUTTING SECTION Safety door and diechase safety locking system to ensure safe operation. Complete lost sheet control throughout the entire machine. Centerline system compatible to Centerline II for quick change over and short set up time. Air cushion underneath the cutting plate for easy cutting plate

STRIPPNG SECTION Heavy duty double action stripping system to ensure positive stripping

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Centerline system compatible to Centerline II for quick stripping die set up.

Front, back and side joggers to ensure neat stacking

Motorized upper frame suspending hoister.

Non-stop delivery ensures continuous productivity

Quick lock stripping pins used for quick set up of simple stripping work.

Batch counter output

CUSTOM PACKAGING OBTAINS “G7 MASTER” CERTIFICATION WITH THEIR NEW BARBERAN JETMASTER

Custom Packaging LP has achieved the level of “G7 Master” Qualification by Idealliance® for corrugated with its new digital single pass press: Barberan Jetmaster. The “G7 Master” Qualification identifies the control capacity in the graphic production process, guaranteeing the quality and color consistency accurately. An international certification that is essential in the reproduction on different printing substrates to ensure the customers brand integrity.

Custom Packaging LP applied for the “G7 Master” Certification, last January, with the tests that were carried out with its new Barberán Jetmaster 1680 printer, during the acceptance time that took place at the Barberán facilities in Castelldefels, Barcelona. In the process involved experts in colorimetry along with the specialists of Custom Packaging and Barberán. Tests were done on different substrates, which included both coated and Kraft paper, supplied by Custom Packaging. The new Barberan Jetmaster 1680, 6 colors printer (CMYK + Orange + Violet) purchased by Custom Packaging LP will be installed at Lebanon facilities, Tennessee, in March. www.jetmasterseries.com www.barberan.com www.custompack.com

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SMS C300 is a modified tapioca starch product, applied in a corrugated board adhesive formulations. SMS C300 is suitable for use on single facer and double backer for all types of corrugated board and glue kitchen

Easily Dissolved character as peak viscosity during dissolution is low Stable Viscosity gives a more consistent operate on the machine and a better board quality Good Water Retention which leads to better bonding strength Less Consumption Less Consumption of glue due to better distribution allowing good bond strength with less glue

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INDONESIA’S FOOTWEAR FORECAST FOR 2018 Growth of Indonesian footwear exports is expected to remain below 10% year-on-year in 2018. At least this is believe of Sigit Murwito, Executive Director of the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo). According to Aprisindo, Indonesian footwear is shipped to 160 countries around the globe, with the biggest markets being the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). Both regions account for almost 60% of Indonesia’s total footwear exports. The same source believes that Vietnam is a major competitor taking most advantage of the market demands. They believe the neighboring country are increasingly becoming a standing force in the global footwear market, while China, Italy and Indonesia have all experienced sliding market shares, which is resulting in a sharp growth in Vietnam’s role in the global

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footwear market. According to Aprisindo, Indonesian footwear shipments to both the EU and US are stagnant, while Vietnam’s footwear exports to these regions are rising. Therefore Aprisindo urges the government to improve Indonesia’s logistics costs through infrastructure development and a more conducive tax environment. This would then attract new investment in Indonesia’s footwear industry. Besides rapidly rising minimum wages in the 20132015 period, another problem impacting Indonesia’s footwear industry is the domestic supply of raw materials, most importantly leather and rubber. Despite being one of the world’s leading natural rubber producers, Indonesia exports this commodity first for processing purposes as domestic processing facilities are still insufficient. Revenue in the “Shoes” segment amounts to US$387m in 2018.

COUNTRY

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2013

COUNTRY

2016

China

28.016

50.766

China

47.203

Italy

9.165

11.785

Vietnam

17.936

Vietnam

4.152

11.555

Italy

10.708

Germany

3.591

5.152

Germany

6.036

Belgium

3.514

5.131

Belgium

5.968

Indonesia

1.736

3.860

Indonesia

4.640

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780

1.372

SKECHERS Q4 GLOBAL SALES JUMP 27% “This growth is due to our continued focus on efficiencies and infrastructure as well as innovation, comfort, and relevancy within our product design. In the US, we remained the No.1 walking, work, casual lifestyle, and casual dress footwear brand, and the No.2 casual athletic footwear brand. “Furthermore, we grew our Skechers store base to 2570 locations at year end and saw impressive growth across the globe including record sales on Single’s Day in China,” said Greenberg. Shoe retailer Skechers posted a 27% increase in sales in the last quarter, powered by a 40% increase in international wholesale sales, and a strong performance in China. “Last year was monumental for Skechers as we achieved sales of more than US$4 billion for the first time in our 25 year history,” said Robert Greenberg, Skechers CEO. In its own stores, Skechers achieve comparable same store sales growth of 10.5% in the US market and 16.5% overseas. It added 75 stores during

the year, 22 of them in the last quarter. While the company reported a net loss of $66.7 million for the last quarter, this was hugely impacted by a $99 million tax charge linked to the Trump government’s taxation reform enacted in December. Earnings from operations increased 96.9% primarily due to sales growth. For the full year, Skechers earned $179.2 million, down 26.4% on 2016’s $243.5 million, but that, too, is after the taxation impact.

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ClearVision systems ensure every box is perfect before it is sent to the customer. With over 300 installations worldwide, the visonary companies in the industry are using these systems to change the competitive landscape.

Flexoseal Glue System Options BoardRunner Non-Contact and Contact Extrusion Features Valco Melton’s all electric model 900 glue valve. The valve provides unparalleled high speed performance with over 250 million cycles before simple maintenance is needed. The impact resistant carbide plunger tip and engineered ceramic seat provide extreme durability. The 900 valve’s powerful coil results in extremely accurate and repeatable glue patterns, in contrast to pneumatically systems. Easily switch from inside to outside gluing with no tools required. The patented applicator heads allow for quick removal for changing number of beads and bead spacing.

BoardRunner Tri-Valve Non-Contact Features three 524 series, all-electric glue valves (up to 4 valves per side). The 524 series non-contact valves offer a ceramic tip/carbide plunger design for extended service life with less maintenance. Can provide staggered pattern starts to match lead and trail tab angle, even in “auto-glue” system mode. The non-contact method eliminates product skew that can be caused incertain contact gluing applications. Features a tip-sealer design that prevents nozzle plugging during periods of down time. Full valve and tip-sealer status can be viewed on Valco Melton’s OT-120 tpuchscreen control. The Tri-Valve BoardRunner® with 900 valve attachment allows for inside / outside gluing from one side of the machine. Flexibility to apply primarily top down, non contact with the option to apply contact, bottom up when required.

Pack & Print Event 2018 SinoPack 2018 10-12 Mar, 2018 Area A China Import & Export Fair Complex Guangzhou, China 3rd European Food & Beverage Plastic Packaging Summit 14-15 Mar, 2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

IPACK IMA 2018 29 May- 1 June, 2018 Fiera Milano, Milan-Italy Print Expo 2018 8-10 June, 2018 Hall 2 & 3 Chennai Trade Center, India

Propack Vietnam 20-22 March, 2018 Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Propak Asia 2018 The 26th International Processing and Packaging Technology Event for Asia 13-16 June, 2018 BiTEC (Bangkok international Trade & Exhibition Centre) Bangkok, Thailand

Icorrugated Asia Expo 2018 21-23 Mar, 2018 National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) (NECC) China

Propak China 11-13 Jul, 2018 Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China

China Print East 2018-the 25th China Print East (Shanghai) 28-31 Mar, 2018 National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) (NECC), China

CCE South East Asia 2018 5-7 Sept, 2018 BiTEC (Bangkok international Trade & Exhibition Centre) Bangkok, Thailand

Sino Corrugated South 10-12 April, 2018 GD Modern International Exhibition Center, China

The Print Show 18-20 Sept, 2018 NEC Birmingham Hall 9, UK

Food & Drink Expo 16-28 April, 2018 NEC Birmingham, UK

The Indonesian International Plastics, Processing, Packaging and Printing Exhibitions 19-22 Sep, 2018 JI Expo Jakarta-Indonesia

Pack Expo East 16-18 April, 2018 Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, USA

LabelExpo America 2018 25-27 September 2018 Donald E.Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois

The 9th Shanghai International Digital Printing Industry Fair 19-21 April, 2018 Shanghai New International Expo Centre W1,W2, China

Tokyo Pack 2018 02-05 Oct, 2018 Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight), Tokyo, Japan

Hongkong International Printing & Packaging Fair 27-30 April 2018 Asia World-Expo, Hongkong

PACK EXPO International 2018 14-17 Oct, 2018 McCormick Place, Chicago USA

NPES Trade Mission and Print Innovation Asia Conference May 2-3 Bangkok, Thailand

All in Print China 2018 - China Intâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Exhibition for All Printing Technology & Equipment 2018 24-28 October, 2018 Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC)

Labelexpo Southeast Asia 2018 10 - 12 May BiTEC (Bangkok international Trade & Exhibition Centre) Bangkok, Thailand

All 4 Pack Packaging / Processing / Printing / Handling 26-29 Nov, 2018 Paris nord villepinte France

Fespa Global Print Expo 15-18 May, 2018 Messe Berlin, Germany

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