EnglishPrintCity New Partners & New Samples
PrintCity Alliance Value Added Packaging (VAPack) members: manroland, UPM, Sun Chemical, M-real, Kurz, Merck and Weilburger Graphics, plus main project partner Bobst, have been joined by new members and partners following the successful worldwide launch of the project at Interpack in May.
VAPack offers brand owners, designers and packaging specialists a ‘value added’ knowledge base plus creative sample boxes to show new possibilities. The line-up of VAPack Members and Technology Partners has now grown significantly to provide new samples for the Creative Pack this summer. In addition to the original VAPack technology partners Reproflex and UpCode, the project welcomes these new contributors of know-how and technologies for 2011/2012: Eltosch – UV technology, Hammesfahr – high quality printers, Heiber + Schröder – innovative window patching, H + M – hot stamping tools, Köch & Glasder – value added packaging finishing, Marbach – cutting dies, Rieker – high-end VAP production.
New VAPack sample boxes are being developed during 2011 to show high-end decoration and food packaging opportunities.
Unique benefits available from this PrintCity Alliance VAPack project include broad range of techniques & ideas showcased in attractive demonstration packaging, highly creative sample box portfolio, access to innovative suppliers & process knowledge in one location, full ‘how to do it’ tutorials explaining the VAP techniques used.
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The doors to FESPA Global Print Expo and European Sign Expo 2021, Europe’s leading exhibitions for speciality print and signage, will open in just a few days (12 – 15 October 2021 at the RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). For the first time since Spring 2019, FESPA is welcoming its communities of print service providers and sign makers back to a live event, with a focus on bringing colour back after 18 extraordinary months for these industries.
Elitron will be showcasing the following: Kombo SD+ 31.20: multi-function, digital cutting table with full range of cutting tools for all your digital finishing requirements; Kombo SDC+ 31.20: multi-function, flexible, digital conveyor cutting table with full range of cutting tools for both roll and rigid media and others Elitron Innovations for 2021.
Under the heading ‘New beginnings. New opportunities’, Agfa celebrates the gradual ‘reopening’ of the world and the occasion to present its updated range of inkjet printing solutions live to the European graphic industry at FESPA in Amsterdam (12-15 October).
