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UAE NEWS

Xerox Emirates commits to a PRINT BY
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green future 50

Hotpack
With sustainability at the incredible success since its Hotpack Global has
core of its values, Xerox launch, and we hope to con- released year of fiftieth
Emirates is contributing to a tinue to contribute to the souvenir paper cups.
green future with the success greener lifestyle needs of our page 3
of its sustainable initiatives customers whilst helping to
launched in the recent years make the UAE a leading sus-
that include the Toner & tainable destination.”
Cartridge Recycling program “In addition to this, we
with Enviroserve, the Print look at how we can simplify 8k
Releaf program and other work, deliver more personal-
internal Recycling initiatives. ized experiences, and
The Toner and Cartridge Mutoh
Recycling program has been ‘Sustainability is core to our business’: Simon Howells improve productivity through The XPJ-1341SR Pro and
XPJ-1641SR Pro printers
in effect since 2010 where sustainability goals. With LLC said: “At Xerox Emirates, our software and technology. have a list price of
Xerox Emirates customers Our Digital Services offerings £8,000
can recycle their used Xerox over 200 customers regis- sustainability is core to our in automation and content and £11,000 respectively.
branded toners and car- tered on this program, they business. We align our goals management, help our cus- page 9
tridges using a voucher-based collect almost 1800+ Kgs of for the environment, in key tomers be more productive,
system in the UAE. After toners and cartridges every areas, to make an impact for profitable, and sustainable
each collection, the organiza- year for recycling. our people and our custom- whilst contributing to conser-
tion gets a ‘Green Certificate’ Simon Howells, General ers. Our sustainability initia- vation of natural resources,”
which adds to their corporate Manager at Xerox Emirates tives have demonstrated concluded Howells. 33m
BOBST, no.1 for vacuum metallizing Smurfit Kappa to invest
Smurfit Kappa

and coating in flexible packaging $33 m in expansion of
Fortaleza plant
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BOBST has claimed BOBST’s Centers of
another global top spot, with Excellence has also been key,
recent sales figures revealing with the Centers in Bobst
that the company now has Manchester and Bobst Italia 40%
the largest share in the containing specialist equip-
worldwide flexible packag- ment and expertise in vac-
ing market for vacuum uum metallizing and coating Armor-Iimak and Astorg
metallizing and coating tech- respectively. Astorg acquiring
approximately
nologies. “This achievement is actu- 40% of Armor-
“Sales in these technolo- ally the culmination of a Iimak’s capital.
gies have been particularly long-term vision and process, page 15
buoyant over the last two which we have progressed
years or so and we are step by step, with quality
delighted to claim the lead- Davide Garavaglia: ‘Culmination of a long-term vision and process’ always at the center,”
ing position,” said Davide e x p l a i n e d D a v i d e
Garavaglia, Head of Product tion, and sustainability, with years of expertise in the vac- Garavaglia.
Lines Vacuum Metallizing, our capability of producing uum coating process and in “We have made significant 80k
Coating, Laminating, machinery characterized by handling flexible substrates. investments along the way in
Gravure Printing at BOBST. minimal downtime and This has led to the develop- terms of R&D, technical XSYS
“The recent developments superb quality at high ment of high technology vac- aspects, staffing and train- XSYS has implemented a
that BOBST introduced to speeds.” uum metallizing and coating ing, and the result has been price increase of 6
the market combine our It is a milestone that has lines that can be used to pro- high-quality technology that percent across its
vision, based on connectiv- been several years in the duce a wide variety of prod- answers the needs of our cus- nyloflex product
ity, digitalization, automa- making. BOBST has many ucts. The introduction of tomers.” page 18
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