PR & News

Precise Digital Printing brings Scodix embellishment to brands in the US

Bensenville, Illinois, United States – August 8, 2022 – Leading trade printer, Precise Digital Printing Graphics (PDP), has invested in a new Scodix Ultra 2000 Digital Enhancement Press, bringing a wide range of embellishment choices to customers, adding impact to their printed applications with Scodix embellishments such as foil, glitter, metallic, braille, spot UV, and cast-and-cure embellishments to printers in the U.S., particularly in the Chicago area.

Univacco Holland BV – Ready for the future

Waalwijk, August 03, 2022 - Based in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, Univacco Holland BV, a specialist supplier of high-quality hot and cold transfer products for the printing and packaging industry, has completely realigned itself in recent years with a view to the future.

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH relies on reconditioned packaging

Further savings of more than 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year certified Gerhardshofen, 01st August 2022 – WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, an internationally active manufacturer of varnishes, inks and adhesives for the graphics industry based in Gerhardshofen, Germany, has for some years now been increasingly relying on the use of reconditioned drums and containers for the transport of its products in order to further reduce climate-damaging CO2 emissions. The company uses packaging solutions from Bayern-Fass Rekonditionierungs GmbH. In 2021, the company was able to reduce the CO2 emissions resulting from its operational business by 2,199,958 kg using reconditioned packaging from the supplier Bayern-Fass alone, according to the study "Life Cycle Assessment of Newly Manufactured and Reconditioned Industrial Packaging" conducted in 2015 by Ernst & Young on behalf of the Reusable Industrial Packaging Association, USA.

Epple Druckfarben AG: Andreas Köpnick is new member of the Executive Board

Epple Druckfarben AG, Neusäß, Germany, has appointed Andreas Köpnick to the Executive Board as of August 1, 2022. In his role on the Executive Board, Andreas Köpnick will be responsible for Commercial Management, Purchasing, Human Resources and Legal Affairs. Gunther Gerlach, Chairman of the Executive Board previously responsible for this area, will leave the company at his own request and by best mutual agreement on July 31, 2022.

TAU RSCi – The Game-Changer in label production

Brixen, Italy – July 26, 2022: The Durst Group’s Tau RSCi label printer made its debut in the American market in mid-2021 with an installation at Accu-Label of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The main objective of this investment was to drive the transformation from flexo to digital. One year on, the firm’s verdict is overwhelmingly positive.

Benzophenone-free SENOLITH® UV lacquers from WEILBURGER Graphics

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, based in Gerhardshofen, Germany, an internationally active manufacturer of varnishes, inks and adhesives for the graphic arts industry, announces that the company has already responded to the Delegated Regulation of the European Commission (EU) 2022/692 of 03.05.2022 amending Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP Regulation) for the purpose of adapting it to technical and scientific progress (Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP)) and has updated its formulations for all UV lacquers offered in accordance with the new requirement.

For faster, more reliable and more efficient filling

Speed, efficiency, flexibility and reliability play a key role in industrial production. This also applies at WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, a company belonging to the Weilburger Group, with headquarters in the northern Bavarian town of Gerhardshofen. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of coatings, adhesives and flexographic inks for the printing and packaging industries, the company develops and produces its innovative products on two of the world’s most state-of-the-art production systems in this market segment. To be able to fill coatings faster, more reliably and in larger quantities, Weilburger has benefited from the use of various automated and semi-automated filling systems from Fricke Abfülltechnik since 2010. Thanks to its steadily increasing order volumes, WEILBURGER Graphics will put an additional Fricke system into operation during the course of this year.

TroFilms again successful in patent opposition proceedings

Georgensgmünd, 16 May 2022 – TroFilms GmbH, based in Georgensgmünd in Germany, a medium-sized, globally operating specialist in high-quality special laminating films for the graphic arts and industrial laminating industries, has scored another success with its opposition to a European patent held by Taghleef Industries S. L. for films used in the lamination of printed products.

TroPROTECT becomes TroPROTECT-X. That’s all that changes!

Georgensgmünd, 04 May 2022 - TroFilms GmbH, a medium-sized and globally operating specialist for high-quality special laminating films for the graphic arts and industrial laminating industries, based in Georgensgmünd in Germany, has revised its extensive product range.

WEILBURGER Graphics shows new application possibilities for barrier coatings in the food industry.

Together with the STI Group, the company has now realised a demo project with high market proximity in order to illustrate the barrier function of the SENOLITH^® WB BARRIER COATING FP PLUS 350023 and to make its function measurable. This project involved the realisation of a total of four different To-Go packaging designs for confectionery and similar products, such as are commonly found as transport packaging at the POS in confectioneries and bakeries, in patisseries and also in supermarket and fast-food chains. All four folding boxes were produced as mixed sheets and thus with the same printing parameters.