Packaging
Bemis Company, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)
Bemis Company, Inc., the largest flexible packaging company in the United States, has been increasing its capabilities for nearly 150 years for a countless array of in-house functions and processes. Meeting the needs of consumer product manufacturers worldwide, Bemis, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, supplies flexible packaging and pressure-sensitive label materials for the food, medical, pharmaceutical, chemical, agricultural, engineering and communications industries.
Eastern Studios (Packaging Prepress)
Technology is forever forcing us to rethink the production process. We get so caught up in perfecting the workflow, we forget that we're running a business. Eastern Studios in Victoria, Australia is the exception to this rule. The company's business model is rigorously fine tuned yet dynamic, so that Eastern can focus almost entirely on achieving its customers' objectives, thereby achieving its own.
Grafopack (Package Printer)
Thinking on a global level forces you to respond on a local level. Grafopack, a package printer located in Odena, Spain has digitised its entire prepress activities and further extended its service, enabling it to increase productivity and react more quickly to the demands of the market.
Groupe Produlith Inc. (Commercial & Package printer)
Produlith is not your average printer. Founded in 1981, Produlith has grown and evolved substantially over the years. Initially a general commercial printer, today they are a successful specialty and packaging printing operation based in Longueuil, Quebec.
Impress Norwich - Norwich, UK (Package Printer)
Impress is the second largest European supplier of food cans, worldwide leader in the seafood can market, European leader in cans for paints and coatings and a significant producer of aerosol cans. Impress Norwich U.K. recently installed a new CtP system and chose the :Grand Sherpa for a digital colour proofing system that could link to its workflow.
LabelCo
LabelCo have been in business since 1951 specialising in their core market of label printing. They are based in Beirut, Lebanon, and are a leading Middle Eastern packaging printer with a reputation for technology innovation and a well deserved status as one of the regions foremost authorities in the label printing and packaging market. Their traditional market has been printed labels for wine, beer, water, cosmetics, bottle tops and pharmaceutical labels. The company has been growing rapidly thanks to good relationship management with customers and a firm focus on quality. In 2009 turnover increased by an astonishing 40%, a mix of new business as well as growth from existing customers. 2010 is expected to be another year of strong growth despite the recessionary pressures which have adversely affected so many of LabelCo’s competition.
Le Mac buy Australia's first Digital UV inkjet press
The Le Mac Australia Group were established in 1983 specialising in high quality graphic packaging including decorative packaging, multipacks and specialist bespoke packaging solutions. They have grown continuously thanks to a philosophy of working in partnership with their clients and an ability to adapt to new and progressive technologies in the packaging industry. They have won numerous awards for their innovative approach to packaging and are seen as a regional leader, working with successful and quality conscious blue chip clients such as Coca-Cola, Unilever and Diageo. Le Mac’s focus has been on original high-quality packaging solutions to their clients. The company now offers one of the widest and most diverse portfolio of products in the region and they have complemented their high-tech operations through the purchase of an Agfa :Dotrix Modular digital UV press. This has allowed them to print on a variety of different materials and the use of UV inks has given them the best possible results in terms of colour depth, image quality, durability and speed of production.
Limmatdruck (Commercial & Package Printing)
After the positive experience with the :Galileo platesetter, the need for a VLF system made Limmatdruck choose the :Xcalibur VLF equipment. Together with the integration of :Apogee and the :Sherpa proofers, this results in a complete CtP workflow.
Lyft Visual
Digital packaging press installation needed to meet new demands Canada-based LYFT Visual is a sister company of the Boehmer Box family, a leader in the printing and packaging industry with a reputation for pioneering innovation, technology and sustainability. Boehmer Box employs almost 300 people manufacturing a variety of carton and packaging products as well as signage and POP materials for a number of major clients in the food carton market, including Wallmart, Sobeys, Loblaws and Janes Family Foods. Lyft, a new start up will complement the Boehmer Box offering through innovative solutions to prepress and digital printing.
SMS Target profitable growth with :Dotrix
SMS Impressao Digital is a new company formed by the merger of three respected Brazilian print groups. Unigraph, Geograph and Insight are all highly experienced in the packaging, label and POS/POP market. Although the companies had prospered in recent years they had all seen the same trends and pressures in their market. One trend that concerned them the most was the movement towards lower run lengths which meant that large portions of the short/medium run length markets were becoming loss-making activities or (at best) break-even.