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PACKAGING NEWS

Mondi invests EUR 20M in Nova Label

expands
sustainable pulp production Nova Label has installed a
Colordyne 3800 Series UV
Retrofit to expand its
production capacity to
Mondi has invested EUR 20 Mondi Frantschach. “Our applications with UV inkjet’s
million to improve further new plant equipment will durable printing, lower
the sustainability of its pulp make our pulp production consumable costs, and gain
production at the even more efficient and affordable short-run
Frantschach mill in Austria. sustainable . T he capabilities.
The mill, which is modernization and With over 50 years of
celebrating its 140th expansion of the evaporation experience in the label
anniversary in 2021, has plant increases the amount of industry, Nova Label provides
already been self-sufficient in heat extracted and reduces labels for various industries,
including direct mail, food and
terms of energy for many the need for steam. It also beverage and more. The
years and supplies reduces the chemical oxygen company started its digital
surrounding communities demand of the biological journey with a water-based
and industrial companies wastewater treatment by 140 inkjet printer in 2016.
with surplus heat from the Joham :“We see ourselves as pioneers in the bioeconomy” tonnes per year.” In recent years, the market
pulp production process. The decision to invest was growth in wine and spirits,
Construction of the new treatment. The production spotlight. Not only is wood a driven by the need to make microbreweries and craft
evaporation plant will start optimization will contribute renewable resource, but we the best use of wood as a distilleries created
immediately, and to the bioeconomy by know that paper is the most primary input. opportunities for Nova Label
commissioning will take increasing the share of widely recycled material in “Wood is one of the most to expand its business. With
place in the autumn of 2023. by-products from the pulp the world with, for example, important raw materials for a the benefits offered by the
3800 Series UV Retrofit, it can
The new equipment will manufacturing process. 74 percent of paper and 83 future based on renewable provide services such as
increase the amount of heat “Today, the focus on percent of paper-based resources, and resource medium order quantities,
extracted and reduce the sustainability and circularity packaging in Europe being efficiency is an equally multiple SKU’s and durable
chemical oxygen demand of puts fiber-based products, recycled,” said Gottfried important consideration,” labels to these growing
the biological wastewater and pulp, right into the Joham, managing director of added Joham. markets.

50th MPS Comexi Inaugurates Innovia introduces
press, Russia new center new white gloss film

Russian converter Milk
Packaging has added a Comexi, a global flexible Innovia Films has developed a
3-color EFA 430 and an packaging printing and uniquely uncoated cavitated
8-color EFA 340 to its food converting specialist, has BOPP base film, Rayoface QB,
packaging production inaugurated its Technology designed for pressure-
facility, marking the 50th Center in Girona, Spain s e n s i t i ve l a b e l i n g
MPS flexo press installed in (CTec Girona). The latest applications.
the country. EUR 11 million center joins a The film is available in 57-
The Milk Packing Factory, similar facility in and 40-micron thicknesses
located in the Leninskiy Montenegro, and a new CTec and has a coating receptive
District, Russia, produces, in Miami, the USA, which surface on one side. This Innovia Films’ new Rayoface QB
sells, and ships foil will open in 2022. allows customers to add their
packaging products With a presence in more Fujifilm to promote press preferred topcoat. It’s suitable To help increase
worldwide for over 450 than 100 countries, the for use within many market efficiencies by reducing
customers in more than 20 company has its production consulting, demonstrations, segments such as household changeover times, QB can be
countries. The newly plants in Girona and Brazil and an industrial laboratory. and personal care, food and manufactured and shipped in
installed 3-colour EFA 430 and commercial offices in the CTec Girona will have nine beverage, and other consumer large jumbo vertical rolls of
and 8-color EFA 340 United States and Russia. state-of-the-art machines for packaged goods sectors. 16300 meters (QB57).
machines join two other Comexi has inaugurated the flexible packaging sector. The 5-layer technology of According to Innovia, this
MPS flexo presses already in the new CTec Girona within The facility will have a the Innovia Films Polish line film has shown excellent
use at this food packaging the parameters of pioneering pre-press area in makes QB a high- results throughout the
production facility, affirming sustainability and energy collaboration with leading performance product that pressure-sensitive labeling
the reliability of this consumption. The new sector companies, such as offers a high yield and value supply chain during an
equipment. technology center, CTec ESKO, DuPont, and Asahi, for for money. With high opacity in-depth trial.
The 3-color EFA 430 will Girona, is integrated into the offset plate engraving. of 91 percent, Rayoface QB The history of Innovia
be used for printing on company’s production with its Globally, the new center will provides a brilliant white Films (Innovia) spans nearly
aluminum blister foil at the multipurpose space of 2,500 be a benchmark due to its surface, with a wide range of 90 years. The first 35 years
company’s new plant, and square meters for innovation vastness and versatility and as compatibility to top-coatings sa w the compan y
the 8-color EFA 340 will be and development of R&D a result of reflecting corporate and adhesives. It’s also EU manufacturing only cellulose
used to expand business. projects, but also for training, sustainability. food contact compliant. films.
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