This development is particularly striking in folding carton and label printing, with branded goods manufacturers aiming to generate a steady stream of new purchasing incentives through the use of particularly effective, stand-out packaging designs.
Tradition Meets HighTech – Heidelberg and IST Metz presented the latest industry trends to around 80 customers from the Middle East in the Baden-Württemberg House. The Focus was on digitization, sustainability and the latest solutions in packaging industry.
Komori America and Spectrum Printing of Tucson, Arizona took home the award for the Best Case Study in the Folding Carton Segment at the Digital Packaging Summit held November 8-10 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Together with the approximately 130,000 sqm already acquired a year ago, VGP plans to establish an innovative, sophisticated office and technology quarter in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region in close cooperation with Heidelberg.
ColdsetInnovation Fulda has commissioned Koenig & Bauer to perform a new retrofit on its Commander satellite press. The plan for the coming year entails a comprehensive overhaul of the press control system and its three control consoles.
While Heidelberg USA has been hiring individual apprentices since 2007, starting at the end of 2020, it began recruiting larger groups. So far, the program has hired six people this year with a goal of hiring an additional twenty-five people over the next 18-24 months in the US alone.
Back in the day, there was a rumour that the printers in the workshops at the Druckerei zu Altenburg used silver type for printing. This pays testimony to the quality awareness of the company, which can trace its roots back to 1594 and still operates from premises built in 1870.
