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Testing solutions expertise: emtec at MIAC
The Leipzig-based company emtec Electronic GmbH can look back on 30 years of experience and is celebrating its anniversary together with customers, partners and friends at stand B41 at the MIAC Expo in Lucca, Italy.
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Hubergroup launches NC calculation service
As the packaging industry faces increasing pressure to comply with future recycling regulations, hubergroup Print Solutions introduces a nitrocellulose (NC) calculation service to support printers in determining the NC content in their packaging. Each hubergroup service technician is now equipped with an NC calculator, enabling an accurate assessment of the NC content in packaging constructions and checking their compliance with thresholds.
One for everyone and everything! The bestseller from Heidelberg: Speedmaster CX 104
The Speedmaster CX 104 was first unveiled at China Print 2021 and has since been installed over 950 times. More than 6,100 of its printing, coating, and drying units have been delivered worldwide, making it the biggest-selling sheetfed offset printing press that Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has ever made, relative to its start of production. In one year, all the systems installed globally churned out a collective total of eleven billion printed sheets.
Voith successfully starts up the complete production line 6 at Modern Karton in Turkey
Voith, Modern Karton and Harbin Electric International Company Limited (HEI) are celebrating the successful start-up of the new high-speed XcelLine PM 6 and the associated BlueLine stock preparation plant at the Zonguldak site in Turkey. The plant will produce up to 640,000 metric tons of recycled containerboard annually, thereby increasing Modern Karton's total production capacity to almost two million metric tons per year. This will consolidate the position of Modern Karton as one of the most reknown manufacturers of packaging papers in Turkey and one of the largest in Europe.
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Sibress to showcase new version of FlexoControl 3D Plus for photopolymer sleeves
Sibress, a manufacturer of measuring and analysis systems for the quality control of flexographic and packaging printing, will be presenting its entire current product portfolio at Labelexpo Europe 2025 in Barcelona. As a new innovation, the company will unveil a version of the FlexoControl 3D Plus device for measuring photopolymer sleeves.
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Labelexpo: Xeikon introduces the TX300 with Titon
Originally introduced for paper-based flexible packaging applications, Xeikon’s Titon technology has now evolved into a category-defining toner platform for mainstream label production. Built on Xeikon’s legacy in dry toner innovation, Titon technology, without the use of varnish, delivers the resilience of UV inkjet, in combination with the regulatory confidence of dry toner. Titon toner technology offers both composition compliance and migration technical compliance for food applications.
Valmet to increase resource efficiency through digitalization at Klingele Weener mill in Germany
Valmet has received an order from Klingele Paper & Packaging for an automation solution to increase resource efficiency through digitalization at the Weener paper mill in Germany. The order comprises an integrated solution that combines three new automation products with the customer’s existing automation environment to reduce surface starch use and energy consumption. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the second quarter 2025. Its value will not be disclosed.
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X-Rite joins forces with Esko at Labelexpo 2025
At Labelexpo Europe 2025, taking place September 16–19 in Barcelona, Spain, X-Rite Incorporated and Esko will showcase their latest innovations that deliver faster, smarter, and more sustainable packaging workflows. Together, the companies will demonstrate how connected color solutions help label printers and converters reduce lead times, optimize print quality, and support real-time brand color conformance from design through production.
AFRY delivers comprehensive asset integrity assessment for three pulp mills in Portugal
AFRY has been entrusted by a Portuguese company - The Navigator Company - to perform a detailed asset integrity evaluation across its three Portuguese pulp mills. This important assessment supports the client’s long-term investment planning by identifying priority repair and replacement needs, to maintain sustainable operations and safeguarding asset reliability.
Green Bay Packaging enhances operational reliability and throughput with Voith’s OnControl.Pulping Detrashing solution
Green Bay Packaging has significantly improved operational reliability and detrashing throughput at its Green Bay, WI facility through the implementation of Voith’s OnControl.Pulping Detrashing solution. Installed and running consistently since March 4, 2024, the smart control system has automated key parts of the detrashing process and enabled more steady-state operations. The system has reduced process variability typically associated with standard timed-purges – resulting in greater process stability and consistency. Cleaner rejects and less equipment plugging were also observed benefits.
Toscotec to deliver energy-efficient complete tissue line to Grigeo Group in Lithuania
Toscotec will supply a new tissue line PM7 for the Grigeo Group’s facility in Grigiškes (Vilnius, Lithuania). This repeat order marks a significant milestone in a partnership spanning over 15 years between the two companies, following the successful installation of the PM6 tissue line in 2013 and previous smaller projects involving Yankee Dryers and Hood replacements on other machines within the group.
Start of new training year at Heidelberg – fostering young talent ensures future power to innovate
At the start of the training year on September 1, 2025, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is welcoming around 100 new trainees and dual study program students to its sites in Germany. The Wiesloch-Walldorf site will be home to 75 of them. In this way, Heidelberg is once again making a clear statement regarding the prospects of young adults and the company’s future. Award-winning training for the targeted development of its homegrown talent is a key component of the human resources strategy adopted by Heidelberg as a global technology company.
