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22 September 2025
The US is imposing tariffs on imports of flexo presses following a complaint from Mark
The specialist labels exhibition has outgrown its former home and may be outgrowing its core
The Belgian based group is continuing its acquisition led expansion with its fourth UK deal,
Canon is adding to its labels and packaging portfolio with a ‘label factory’ using its Colorado large format printer. Canon is underlining its commitment to the label and packaging industry with the introduction of a ‘label factory’ version of its Colorado UVgel large format printer at Labelexpo. This is in addition to a presentation, though […]
16-19 September | Barcelona Labelexpo is leaving Brussels for the first time in 38 years,
The label industry’s show is expanding its appeal into other packaging sectors. The first Labelexpo
Eastbourne label printer Lotus Labels is buying a Xeikon CX30 to cope with growing demand for cartons. Lotus Labels has taken delivery of a Xeikon CX30, replacing a 3300 narrow web digital press the Eastbourne company installed nine years ago. While that machine was used to print carton board as well as self adhesive labels, […]
The pouch production arm of Baker Labels has hit its stride, but with a different mix to the labels side of the business. BakPac is comfortably delivering 1 million pouches a week, around a month after taking delivery of its fourth and fifth pouch making lines. This means that the Brentwood company will be increasingly […]
The long standing exhibition for label converters is trying to appeal to the carton industry
The finishing specialist will demonstrate its new roll to roll label finisher amid the large format printers at Fespa this week. One of the more unexpected product launches at Fespa this week comes from Plockmatic. It is using the large format display print exhibition to launch a roll to roll narrow web label finishing unit. […]
The leading supplier of finishing line to label printers is expanding its production site in Germany. AB Graphic has started work on a 2,100m2 expansion of its plant in Germany. This comes just months after the official opening of its 4,000m2 expansion of its Driffield factory in Yorkshire. The site in Germany at Baesweiler near […]
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Abbey Labels is the first in the UK to install the newest and fastest Xeikon label press, the LX3000, the Lion. Abbey Labels has signed off the installation of the UK’s first Xeikon LX3000 Lion label press. The Bury St Edmunds business signed for the press at Drupa having only decided on the investment immediately […]
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Two years ago the first version of the Smart Label was shown at CES. This year the company has shown the latest version. Security print group Giesecke + Devrient has chosen the Consumer Electronics Show to launch the latest version of its Smart Label. Amid the 3D printers, virtual reality headsets, domestic robots and AI […]
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The specialist trade printer has installed a first of its kind Durst inkjet label press as investment in Essex continues. Baker Labels has signed off the installation of its Durst Tau RSC340 LED label press less than two weeks after taking delivery of its first Durst press. This is the latest element in a two-year […]
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The Croydon label printer is the latest to choose the 1200dpi Durst press to take
A combination of inline foiling from Kurz and Xeikon’s Titon UV fused toner sharpens up foiled effects. Xeikon demonstrated two new label presses at the show, one being the latest version of its Panther inkjet press and the other a Titon press inline with a digital foiling unit from Kurz subsidiary Scribos. This work because […]
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Xeikon has moved to this hall among packaging equipment suppliers like Sanwa and Yawa. Definitely one for carton converters. Hall 11 continues the focus on packaging with a number of die cutting platens in operation, carton gluing solutions and Xeikon. At Drupa in 2016, the Belgian company was in Hall 8A where it demonstrated its […]
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Mercian Labels is using Screen’s Truepress Jet PAC520S to print flexible packaging for prestige chocolate
Four years after starting to offer pouches, the trade printer is buying its most powerful digital press to date. BakPac, the pouches division of Baker Labels, is now among the first users of HP Indigo’s 200K flexible packaging press in the UK. The machine was delivered to the company’s premises in Brentwood, Essex, and installed […]
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Eastbourne label printer can deliver cartons to existing and new customers needing consistency across labels and cartons. Lotus Labels is continuing a diversification into carton printing, investing in a Petratto Metro folder gluer to complete digitally printed cartons. As a consequence capacity to produce cartons has increased threefold. The Eastbourne company can use its Xeikon […]
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Sustainability was never far from the surface in the Barcelona exhibition halls. The rise of LED UV compared to mercury vapour lamps to create UV delivers a sharp reduction in power consumption; linerless label production not only eliminates the carrier and thus cuts out waste, it means perhaps 80% more labels per reel with efficiencies […]
One of the strongest themes running through Labelexpo this year went well beyond the question of how ink might be applied to a self adhesive substrate. Label printers across he world are facing the same recruitment problems that commercial printers in the UK face. While this delivers some relief that the UK printer is not […]
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QR code technology business Polytag has completed a trial to prove that its consumer scanning solution can help with deposit return schemes to encourage recycling. Polytag has hailed a first nationwide trial of a digital deposit recovery scheme as a great success. The company applies unique QR codes to the labels of products that should […]
The new Indigo label press is going to take HP into a new dimension, but will also force it to think about how to build these new style machines. HP is installing an Indigo V12 at its showroom in Barcelona following a highly successful European debut at Labelexpo last week. The company ran public demonstrations […]