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NEWS GLOBAL

IN BRIEF Digiprint Nettl’s new

Smur fi t K app a h a s
completed the disposal of
its Russian operations after
a process that has taken sustainable range
just under a year. On 1 April
2022, five weeks after
Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, the ¤12.8bn Digiprint Nettl has business to roll out its new
(£11.2 6b n) t urnove r launched an environmentally range of products.
pa ck ag i ng g ia n t friendly range of products “Our most important
announced that it planned to exit the Russian market in an following the installation of
orderly manner. Its businesses there – including a bag-in- requirement when investing
box facility and two corrugated plants in St Petersburg, and an HP Latex R1000 printer. in the printer was the
a corrugated plant in Moscow – have been sold to local Established in 1987 as a litho
management with the deal completed after the necessary and copy shop in Bath and environmentally friendly
approvals by Russian authorities and all the related Chippenham, Digiprint Nettl Latex technology,” said Ben
administrative separation tasks. Smurfit Kappa had The Latex R1000 at new factory
previously said that its Russian businesses did not represent now offers all kinds of print, Gregory, director of
a separate major line of the business, and it did not split and has two advanced design Running alongside an HP Digiprint Nettl.
out its sales there. The disposal has resulted in a ¤128m and digital print studios. Latex 800W printer, which Digiprint Nettl is a long-
exceptional charge related to the impairment of its assets in In January it opened a new was installed a few months
Russia. term HP customer, having
signs, display, and exhibition earlier in October, the Latex taken on its first HP printer
Neil Sutton will retire at factory to further widen its R1000 has changed the way
the end of this month after offering to customers and the company operates, in the 1990s and regularly
a near-30-year career at this led to the purchase of the particularly the machine’s upgrading its production
Komori, and has received a
Lifetime Achievement Latex R1000, which was use of water-based HP Latex setup with the manufacturer
Award as part of his send- installed in the same month. inks, which have enabled the ever since.
off. Sutton joined the
Jap ane s e pr e ss
manufacturer in 1996 as Fespa expands exhibitor line-up
southern area sales manager. His responsibilities steadily
increased, including heading sheetfed sales for the UK, Fespa has revealed that a names include DP Also exhibiting are event
Ireland and South Africa. In 2004 he became UK managing raft of new and returning Solutions, Eurolaser, INX,
director when previous incumbent Martin Rickards moved sponsors Durst, Surfex,
to a European role, and then when Rickards retired in 2018 exhibitors will participate at Lüscher Technologies, Brother, Mimaki, Hanglory,
Sutton became COO of Komori’s European business. Sutton’s its Global Print Expo in Marabu, SPS TechnoScreen, and HP, as well as hardware
career has spanned a period of huge technological change Munich in May. 490 Vastex International, and
in print, as well as major world events and economic companies are currently Vivid Laminating suppliers including Agfa,
turbulence that have impacted the industry including the confirmed to exhibit at the Technologies. Aeoon, Aleph, Canon,
financial crisis and the pandemic. Komori praised Sutton show and the co-located The line-up also features Epson, Fujifilm, Kongsberg,
for his analytical, and pragmatic approach coupled with his European Sign Expo and 78 new exhibitors, including Liyu, MHM, Sakurai,
sales and business management acumen.
Personalisation Experience, Aerolam Decoratives, SwissQprint, Ricoh, Roland
APS Group has invested including 95 returning CarbonQuota, Duveholm DG, and Zünd. Fespa Global
£5m into its 9,290sqm suppliers, many of which Stallbacken, Magon, Print Expo, European Sign
secure inbound/outbound were unable to attend the Newtown Packaging,
Preston Brook facility near events held in Amsterdam Ronchini Massimo, Expo, and Personalisation
Runcorn. he Stockport- and Berlin in the last two Scandinavian Print Group, Experience will take place at
headquartered group, years due to travel Toscana Systems, and Messe Munich from 23 to 26
which delivers secure restrictions. Returning Xeikon. May.
c u s t o m e r
communications, said the
and government sectors.APS said it had been steadily Sirane launches world-first pouches
investment had followed significant wins in the financial
investing throughout the pandemic, building on the
capabilities of the Preston Brook facility, which opened in Packaging manufacturer convenience is growing
September 2020 and is capable of processing 500–600 Sirane has launched a range rapidly and it is essential food
million packs a year. The Preston Brook operation comprises of oven-friendly films and cooked in plastic packaging,
an inbound and outbound centre for secure print and
plastic card personalisation. pouches printed with heat- a very popular way of
resistant water-based inks, in cooking, is safe. It is great
Bell & Bain is scoping out the potential for reel-fed colour what the company has called that we have been able to
inkjet as part of its future investment options. The Glasgow
book and journal printer’s chairman Stephen Docherty and a world-first. A range of oven-friendly films reduce the environmental
managing director Karen Baillie visited the recent Hunkeler The firm, which already impact of these products.”
Innovation Days event in Switzerland to look at the latest offers a wide range of products in a significantly Ralten added: “We believe
technology being showcased there, and have also travelled packaging suitable for ovens more eco-friendly manner. this is a world-first.”
to Koenig & Bauer’s digital and web press facility in Peter Ralten, commercial
Würzburg, Germany, to see its RotaJet inkjet web press. Bell and microwaves, said that its Sirane has launched the
& Bain is a longstanding Koenig & Bauer customer and development of suitable and business development range in reel form, flat bags
recent major investments include two Rapida 145 large- water-based inks would director, said: “Consumer or pouches, and as stand-up
format presses.
allow it to manufacture the demand for ovenable pouches.
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