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Ball wins World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award from AEROBAL
Ball has recently won the 2014 World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award from AEROBAL for its ‘U Homme’ deodorant can prototype. The can features Ball’s Matte & Gloss printing technology, and was selected as this year’s winner by an international jury comprised of journalists from the world’s leading can magazines and packaging journals. Using its unique […]
KBA’s MetalStar 3 is a best-seller
In the three months since this year’s METPACK, KBA-MetalPrint’s MetalStar 3 has proven to be a best-seller. Over 50 printing units of the MetalStar 3 have been sold worldwide, from two-colour to eight-colour printing presses with integrated UV coating towers, as well as with purely thermal drying as six-colour printing presses with the MetalCoat 480 […]
World Aluminium Aerosol Can Awards
AEROBAL has announced the winners of the World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2014: Innovative ideas for print and design and the environment. The judging panel was made up of journalists from can magazines from around the world. A can produced by German manufacturer Tubex for Dove deodorant won the award for best can already on […]
Aerosols: an expert overview
CanTech conducts a Q&A with Veronique Curulla, marketing director at CROWN Aerosols and Speciality Packaging Europe.
Rexam to open graphics and design studio
This month, Rexam will open a new state-of-the-art graphics and design studio, designed to provide a unique offering for customers with on the spot design expertise, platemaking and proofing. The studio is based in Luton, UK, and will act as a one-stop-shop, showcasing Rexam’s graphic and design capabilities for customers. There features a dedicated suite […]
Trelleborg to exhibit latest products at Asia CanTech
Trelleborg Coated Systems printing solutions operations is due to showcase its latest products for can printing at the Technical Conference and Exhibition at Asia CanTech 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand, from October 27 to 29. Recently added to Trelleborg’s printing blanket portfolio for cans in the Asia-Pacific region are two products for three-piece can printing. The […]
A short Q&A with Iñaki Llona, global business leader, Metal Deco Inks, at Sun Chemical
A short Q&A with Iñaki Llona, global business leader, Metal Deco Inks, at Sun Chemical
Innovate, facilitate… Decorate!
Richard Piper speaks with two industry experts on the subject of inks and coatings.
Masas to increase capacity
Masas Decorative Metal Packaging, Turkey’s leading producer of decorative cans, is planning to install a new printing machine that will almost double the company’s production capacity. Plans to install a new printing line, for which the supplier has not been decided, follow a sustained period of business growth over the past three years. The company’s […]
Denver Beer selects Ball cans for new promotion
Denver Beer is releasing two of its beers, Incredible Pedal and Graham Cracker Porter, in 12-ounce cans from Ball. The cans are marked using Ball’s Dynamark variable printing technology with one of 24 distinct GPS coordinates. These coordinates correspond to 24 secret locations in Colorado, as part of a promotion dubbed the DBC Explorer Challenge. […]
Jet set CanTech
It’s certainly been a busy few months for the team here, both in and out of CanTech HQ in south east England. We have been travelling extensively to bring you the very latest stories and updates from around the world and the air miles are indeed stacking up!
Rexam offers premium edition cans
Rexam is now offering Super Premium Editions and, for the first time, Positive Editions to its customers from all Rexam locations. Rexam’s patent pending Editions technology allows for up to 24 different designs to be printed simultaneously on a single pallet. Super Premium Editions offers the next step in can design, printing high definition detailed […]
A digital age
The buzz word of late appears to be digital. It is no revelation that we are living in a digital age – indeed, if you disagree then I would suggest that you have either been living in a remote part of the jungle or are the most extreme Luddite ever to have wandered the earth – but is it necessarily best?
Sun Chemical extends SunCure Lite range
Sun Chemical has announced addition to its SunCure range of inks, SunCure Lite, a series of UV curable, lithographic inks, designed for commercial printing and non-food packaging applications. Utilising energy efficient UV curing lamp technologies, based on formulations developed in collaboration with DIC Corporation, the ink formulations absorb the specific spectral output of Low Energy […]