Ceepackaging

Depending on where a European smoker lives, some will die 10 years sooner than their neighbours! This huge discrepancy is due to differing European levels of tobacco control, services and availability of clinically proven products. Smoking is a serious health inequalities issue which is now being tackled by the European Network of Quitlines thanks to funding from a Pfizer Foundations Global Health Partnership Programme.

Recent developments in the Iggesunds’s economic and business environment driven by changing consumption trends, exchange rates has led to a reorganisation in order to rise to the challenges in the marketplace. The Sales & Marketing management structure has been changed in order to raise its profile within the organisation.

Van Heertum, a Dutch design agency who specialises in packaging for the luxury goods and tobacco industries, is highly experienced at producing technically advanced gravure works. On a wall in their home in Tilburg hang a number of awards in the field. They include five Golden Cylinder Awards from the Gravure Association of America for his intricate covers for Tobacco Journal International.

It was an unusual assignment for project manager Patrick Peronace and CAD designer Roger Nützi of the packaging company Amcor Rentsch. Do something that no-one else has done before – something that is so difficult, it can only be done with Invercote.

At FachPack, GIKO will be focusing special attention on mono and composite films with full-surface or partial wax lamination as a speciality seldom found in Europe. There is a growing market for this type of packaging in the form of twist films with aluminium lamination for confectionery, stock cube wrapping, etc.