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K& B and Bosch bring Action taken by the
IN BRIEF

new product Greeting Card Association
(GCA) has resulted in
online marketplace Temu
deploying new technology
to identify and remove
Bosch has set up a new It has been designed to copycat card designs on its
product authentication busi- work with high volumes and platform. The GCA said that
its members had voiced
ness and has teamed up with at printing industry manufac- concerns for a number of
Koenig & Bauer to bring the years about their intellectual property rights being infringed
product to the printing turing speeds, so it can be by copied designs on Far East-based marketplaces. The
association said that card designers here were being spe-
industry – with a potentially integrated with printing cifically targeted due to the UK’s “world-class reputation
huge opportunity in packag- presses without having to for design”. “The emergence of copycat designs on these
marketplaces results in Far East businesses getting a free
ing and security printing. Brand protection product slow down production. No ride on the creative coattails of UK SMEs, impacting the bot-
Industrial and consumer tion of each individual object, additional materials such as tom line of publishers, retailers and printers that make up
goods giant Bosch Group’s this is then converted into a security foils are required. the greeting card sector,” the GCA stated. The knock-off
products are often poor quality products.
new business unit is Bosch digital identity and finally Koenig & Bauer Vision &
Secure Authentication, stored securely in the cloud. This Summer, luxury pack-
which is now home to a soft- “All that’s required for ver- Protection said it was similar aging supplier Hunter
Luxury produced a unique
ware solution called Origify. ification is to take another to a biometric process. limited edition product
This was developed in-house photo using a smartphone “Ovjera can assign a pre- that proved a creative feat
in packaging storytelling.
by Bosch for authentication app and compare it with the cise identity to every object, Partnering with distiller
and traceability on its own reference data stored in the which can be retrieved at a William Grant & Sons, a
product lines. database,” Bosch stated. A later point in time and serves long-time client to the
Harpenden, Hertforshire-
Origify records a product’s version of Origify specifically based supplier, the brief involved a limited 50,000 unit run
as an invisible serial or key of a Whimsical Watering Can gift set for gin brand
unique “microstructure”, for the printing industry has Hendrick’s. Each set consisted of a 70cl bottle of Hendrick’s
whereby an image is been developed, called element for linked data,” the Original gin inside a vintage-style watering can, measuring
recorded during the produc- Ovjera. company stated. 210mm long x 107mm wide x 160mm tall, made from both
stainless and galvanized steel with overall food grade pow-
Heidelberg and MK Masterwork der-coating and plating. It involved a complex production
process, with conventional methods for making watering
cans deployed.
Heidelberg and MK becoming the sales channel the two companies signed a Newspaper Club has
Masterwork have announced for MK Masterwork products fresh agreement to expand added a new “midi” for-
plans to expand their collabo- outside China including and extend their collabora- mat to its offering, with
ration as the two manufac- industrial die-cutters, carton tion in “integrated and highly print runs starting at just a
single copy. Newspaper
turers celebrate a decade of gluers and hot foil stamping automated complete solu- Club was established in
partnership. China- devices. Since then tions”. 2009, and its platform
headquartered MK Heidelberg has installed MK Masterwork cele- allows anyone to create
and print their own news-
around 1,500 Masterwork
Masterwork and Germany’s systems worldwide. brates 30 years in business papers. The firm’s parent company is Peterborough-based
Heidelberg originally agreed At a recent event at MK this year, while Heidelberg is Sharman & Company, which offers conventional and digital
newspaper printing. Newspaper Club said the new midi
a strategic sales partnership Masterwork’s HQ in Tianjin marking its 175th anniver- format sits between magazines and newspapers. The size is
in 2015, with Heidelberg to celebrate the anniversary, sary. A4-plus, at 310mm x 220mm, with paginations from 16pp-
64pp available on two stocks: 55gsm improved newsprint,
Mondi’s unit reorganisation or an 80gsm bright recycled paper grade. The midi is a
digitally printed, full-bleed stitched product, with runs
available from one to 1,000 copies.
Mondi has reorganised its unchanged. Mondi said the
group into two business changes would support Solopress has printed a new poetry book detailing the
remarkable life of 102-year-old World War II veteran and
units to “facilitate a more faster decision-making, cost former Spitfire pilot Eddie Habberley. The book, The Way
streamlined organisation”. take-out, and delivery of That Life Goes, will be published on 11 November,
The company said that with operational synergies across Remembrance Day. It contains 36 poems written over the
effect from 1 Octobe), the Business unit reorganisation its pulp and paper mills, course of many years by the author, exploring themes of
group has been organised Corrugated Packaging to while retaining its customer flight, love, loss, nature, and reflection. Habberley com-
mented: “I served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot
into the Corrugated form an enlarged flying Spitfire aircraft. I went to America to train for my
Packaging and Flexible focused value chain orienta- ‘Wings’. My service journeys took me to Egypt, India, Burma
Packaging business units. Corrugated Packaging busi- tion. Mondi announced the and finally to Hong Kong. “It is a great experience for me to
Uncoated Fine Paper has ness unit. Flexible changes alongside its Q3 get my work published, something I never expected. I am
been combined with Packaging remains trading update. excited to see the first book.”

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