Client News

Tübingen (March 15, 2018) – GMG and Global Graphics Software announce a technology partnership that will overcome the color management and quality issues often found in digital packaging and label production. The partnership will make GMG’s award-winning technology available within Fundamentals, Global Graphics Software’s toolkit for building a digital front-end for inkjet presses. Fundamentals is a software and engineering services package that helps inkjet press manufacturers get to market quicker.

Bristol, UK – 13 march 2018 – Spandex, the one-stop supplier of innovative solutions to the sign, graphics and display industries is exhibiting at Sign and Digital UK from 24-26 April 2018, on stand E30, at the NEC Birmingham.

FESPA has announced the shortlisted entries for its FESPA Awards 2018. The entries, which are displayed online now, will be showcased at FESPA Global Print Expo 2018, which takes place from 15 to 18 May 2018 in Berlin, Germany.

US-based, award-winning service provider, Express Packaging has over 30 years’ experience providing tailored primary and secondary packaging solutions for a wide variety of global brands – such as Nestlé, Kraft and Hershey’s. Specialising in applications that include pouching, cartoning, shrink-wrapping and label printing, Express Packaging must process track and trace codes at an extremely high speed and volume. To meet these demands, the company has invested in Domino’s latest continuous ink jet (CIJ) printer, the Ax350i.

Wexham Springs, UK – 8 March 2018 –Sun Chemical has acquired the Metal Deco ink business of PPG, a US-based global supplier of paints, coatings and specialty materials. PPG, with a well consolidated portfolio, and Sun Chemical are both long standing players in the metal packaging industry.

FESPA is pleased to announce Dover Digital Printing as its new Corporate Partner for FESPA Global Print Expo 2018, which takes place from 15 to 18 May in Berlin, Germany.

South Normanton, UK – 8 March 2018 – Newspaper and commercial printer, The Blackmore Group (www.theblackmoregroup.co.uk), has endorsed its confidence in Sun Chemical as a trusted business partner by placing a contract for the supply of all of Blackmore’s conventional offset, LED and cold-set inks for the next three years.

Wexham Springs, UK – 7 March 2018: At Security Printers 2018 (21 – 23 March at The Convention Centre, Dublin (CCD), Ireland), Sun Chemical will, for the first time, showcase its range of banknote production products in combination with those of Luminescence, which it has recently acquired (see press release athttp://www.sunchemical.com/sun-chemical-dic-corporation-acquire-luminescence-holdings-ltd/).

Based across two East Midlands sites, ADS2 Brands is one of the oldest and largest producers of beer dispenser fonts, taps and handles in the world. ADS2 Longborough, located in Sandy, Bedfordshire is the print division of the business and in the past eighteen months, two Fujifilm Acuity Select flatbeds – with Uvijet KV inks in a CMYK plus two white channels configuration – have revolutionised its production of optical logos and changeable beer font shrouds for some of the biggest beverage brands in the world, including Tennent’s, Stella Artois, Heineken and many others.

FESPA announces the appointment of screen and digital printing specialist, Graeme Richardson-Locke, to the newly-formed role of Head of Technical Support.

Located a short walk from Uxbridge tube station, The Charter Building, former UK headquarters of Coca-Cola, has in the last year, undergone an extensive refurbishment and remodel, overseen by developers Landid Property Holdings. To add the finishing touches, signage and display graphics specialist Signbox was commissioned by contractor Bowmer & Kirkland to deliver external, illuminated signage and comprehensive wayfinding graphics throughout this five-storey, 240,000 square foot building.

It has been yet another successful year for FESPA Eurasia, as the Istanbul-based exhibition welcomed 8,761 unique visitors over the course of four days (7 – 10 December, 2017). The final figure represents an increase when compared to FESPA Eurasia 2016, which registered 8,232 during the same four day period.