The Grafityp range of laminates for UV-curable inks was recently expanded considerably.

Energy Verve is a pre-heat offset printing plate that achieves run lengths up to 1 million copies without baking. It has been developed to handle especially demanding print conditions.
Energy Verve is a negative-working, pre-heat, photopolymer offset printing plate targeted at heat-set web (e.g. magazines and retail), cold-set web (e.g. newspapers and books), as well as packaging & commercial sheet-fed printers that typically deal with highly demanding and abrasive print conditions with oxidative and UV inks. Thanks to its high chemical and mechanical resistance, Energy Verve can handle print runs up to 1 million copies. In addition, its high sensitivity and non-ablative photopolymer layer maximize plate throughput of the platesetter.

The new performance class in digital printing from Inapa Germany
Optimum results in digital printing require papers that are optimally adapted to digital printing. The new qualities Digi Finesse premium silk and Digi Finesse gloss from Inapa Germany define a new performance class for digital print products.

Due to the increased demand for floor-graphics solutions, Antalis has added Xerox Floor GraphiX for dry toner printing to its range.
This unique floor graphic solution is perfect for indoor environments, including retail outlets and supermarkets, airports and travel hubs, events and conference centres.

The latest version of Agfa’s Adamas chemistry-free offset printing plate boasts increased eco credits, in addition to extended run lengths for UV ink printing.
The combination of eco-friendliness with high press performance, sharp dot reproduction and maximum throughput, makes Adamas an ideal fit for both packaging and commercial (sheetfed or non-baked heatset) printing. The new generation comes with a number of ecological improvements, as well as increased performance in UV printing.

Wherever space is extremely limited or where physically working UV radiometers do not fit through, the new TestUVstrip will show its advantages. The new UV measuring strips have a maximum thickness of 200 micrometers.

As the new and preferred sales partner for Varcotec's innovative Lock 3 technology, Siegwerk is expanding its range of packaging inks and varnishes with a unique antimicrobial dispersion varnish suitable for a wide range of applications and packaging types.

- New date: 9 to 10 June 2021
- New venue: RheinMain CongressCenter Wiesbaden

Customers of the specialty chemicals manufacturer BYK have cause for celebration: At the beginning of June, the even more informative, more modern, and more service-oriented website went live.

Flint Group Packaging Inks today confirms the implementation of a North American price increase for its solvent-based business to alleviate raw material cost increases. The price increase will be active for all Flint Group Packaging Inks products sold in the United States of America and Canada and will take effect as of July 15, 2020.

SPGPrints has appointed Omigraf Sp. z o.o., based in Warsaw, as agent in Poland to represent its rotary screen printing division for label applications.
Omigraf’s founder and owner, Andrzej Turski, has been representing several leading machine and material suppliers in the graphics printing industry in Poland for the last 23 years. The agency will provide label converters with a fast, local supply of SPGPrints rotary screen equipment and consumables, as well as providing technical consultancy, training programs and maintenance.

Self-adhesive label stock supplier UPM Raflatac has achieved sustainability certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Scheme ISCC PLUS at three of its factories and nine distribution terminals worldwide. The company is proud to make a change in the sustainable labels value chain and be one of the first adopters in the packaging industry to deliver this certification. UPM Raflatac’s ISCC PLUS certified products via mass-balance approach include UPM Raflatac Forest Film™ and UPM Raflatac PP C-PCR.