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Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) followed up an international press conference on 8 April with an open house from 9 to 11 April at its sheetfed facility in Radebeul (near Dresden) at which it gave an exclusive preview of the major innovations it will be exhibiting at this year’s Drupa in Düsseldorf. Around 1,500 industry professionals from all over the world took the opportunity to attend live demonstrations of new features and upgrades in formats ranging from half-size to large. These include a raft of innovations for enhancing productivity, quality, finishing, cost efficiency and press ecology. While KBA did not reveal everything that will be exhibited on its 3,400m² (36,600ft²) stand in hall 16, what it did show was well worth the journey.

Avery Dennison announced today the launch of its new highly chemical-resistant labelstock, Fasson® Transfer PET Matt White Top Chem Res/S8015. Transfer PET Matt White Top Chem Res is offered with the Fasson® S8015 adhesive providing excellent adhesion to a wide range of surfaces, including low surface energy plastics and textured substrates. This new labelstock is specially suited to the automotive industry, for labelling laboratory equipment and for other industrial applications where there is a need to print labels that will resist aggressive chemicals while remaining readable.

Crown Holdings has announced the development of a new print technology, which significantly enhances the quality of images that can be reproduced on beverage cans.

With the drupacube, drupa 2008 will for the first time provide a special event aimed at the print buyer target group. As will be the case in the 19 halls, here too the spotlight will be on printed products – with one key difference. At the event inside the pavilion set up on the Rhine, the focus will be squarely on marketing-driven applications for printed products. The technology that makes this possible will play a subsidiary role. This shift in perspective offers one unbeatable advantage: Heads of marketing and publishing directors, production managers, account executives and creative directors will be able to take in print’s potential in the marketing mix in a compact format. “With this tool, we intend to attract print buyers to drupa in greater numbers. Undoubtedly, many of the exhibitors also have offerings catering to this target group. But at a technology fair of drupa’s kind, this type of information is often in danger of being drowned out,” said Manuel Mataré, drupa Project Director, describing the aim of the event. “The drupacube acts as a portal for print buyers by serving up concise infotainment on all things print communications and guiding them to exhibitors’ stands.”

Alwan Color Expertise and Bodoni Systems Ltd. used IFRA to showcase their combined solution insuring fast makereadies, increased stability, ink savings, and ISO-12647 standard output. The integrated offering, demonstrated at IFRA from October 8-11, featured Alwan’s CMYK Optimizer version 3 and Bodoni pressSIGN.

For its 60th anniversary, Pucci has designed a closure which elegantly conveys the brand’s entire universe and style. The idea was to reproduce the colours and design of one of the famous scarves from the Italian fashion house.

Ovals, triangles, rectangles or even polygone, the new carrousel type 982 can print any type of geometrically developable shapes. Whatever the base of the bottle, it allows an impression of 360° throughout the length of the bottle

Thanks to its product development department, today Lumson can offer more than 20 cosmetic Packaging lines/collections with more than 100 accessories that go from cosmetic pumps to overcaps, from jar covers to screwing caps to different type of dispensing systems; on top of this and to offer a 360° service, Lumson can also take care of all the decorations (screen printing, hot stamping, tampo printing, laquering, metallizations).