Aztech Engineering Solutions have recently secured an order for two FLEXICHECK Inline Leak Testing Machines. The order follows detailed discussions and demonstrations with a well known European food manufacturer, who until now, were unable to source a 100% non destructive test for their packs, despite lengthy searches. The two FLEXICHECK Inline machines will test every pack coming from the production lines, and each will be capable of testing 150 packs per minute. Any leaking packs will be rejected for repacking, and sound packs will be returned to the production lines. Our test method has the following benefits: Non-Destructive - Leaking packs are rejected automatically for re-packing, and sound packs are returned to the production area, without the need for re-packing, as the contents have not been contaminated in any way.

ADAM Software is said to offer an interesting DAM product with several differentiators ADAM Software has an interesting DAM offer towards the high end of the market. Under the name of ADAM, a full suite of DAM-based products are released based on the latest .NET technology of Microsoft. With its modular approach, ADAM underlines that it doesn't believe in a 'one size fits all' approach in the DAM-industry. ADAM Software believes an open architecture, a documented API and a variety of functional modules are the best way to respond to the variety of business needs described in the latest research paper of Forrester.

Smurfit Kappa UK scooped a major medals haul at this year's prestigious EFTA (European Flexographic Technical Association) print awards, including the Best in Show award. The company, a leading provider of paper based packaging and print, won a total of ten awards, including five golds, and the judge's top award for the 'biOrb' - a stylish home aquarium, manufactured by Reef One. The awards, held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, recognise the highest achievements in flexographic printing throughout the UK and across Europe. Smurfit Kappa UK's medal tally featured gold awards from several well-known drinks brands, including Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky (Post Print category); Irish drinks brand The Knot (Coated Screen category); Chivas Regal Blended Scotch Whisky (Coated Process category) and William Lawson's Scotch Whisky.

As the world leader in premium commercial cleaning and sanitizing, ECOLAB has grown to US$5 billion in global sales.

In more than 160 countries, businesses rely on more than 23,000 associates worldwide to keep their operations clean and sanitary.

In late 2007, ECOLAB Healthcare Europe, selected BERICAP's closure SK 50/21 FB with PE liner for its product Sekusept® PLUS, a leader product for manual instrument reprocessing (e.g. for surgical instruments and flexible endoscopes in hospitals and the healthcare sector).

Sekusept PLUS is both from a chemical formulation as well as a packaging design point of view a genuine innovative product. One of the determining factors for ECOLAB's closure choice has been BERICAP's slit tamper evidence band, a solution protecting very well against counterfeiting.

Innovia Films' biodegradable, compostable NatureFlex™ film is being used as part of the packaging for a leading British cereal producer's organic range. Jordans has adopted new bags for the recent relaunch of its organic muesli and granola cereal. The innovative packs have been developed and manufactured by Alcan Packaging following three years of extensive research and development. The packaging is made utilising two different certified compostable films - with a structure of one layer of Innovia Film's NatureFlex NE30 film laminated to Novamont's Mater-Bi. The bio-based films, along with the inks and adhesives used in the conversion process have been certified DIN EN 13432 by Dincertco, a European standard for compostable and biodegradable packaging.

Innovia Films' biodegradable packaging material, NatureFlex™, is helping a raw snack food company - Superfood Snacks - to fulfill its ideal for natural eco-friendly sustainable bags to package their first product, Chocolate Goji Treats. They are a synergistically balanced fusion of some of the world's most nutritious ancient superfoods and speciality ingredients, including goji berries, raw cacao, maca root and sundried vanilla bean. Superfood Snacks will also use its signature NatureFlex design for two new flavors to be launched later this month. Superfood Snacks uses a range of pure, raw and organic fair-trade ingredients in all their flavors of raw chocolate Superfood truffles, which not only provide superior nutritional benefits, but also an out of this world guilt-free tasty treat.

In 2006 Mondi opened its R&D Centre in Korneuburg, Austria, which has two laboratories and pilot production lines with digital printing equipment. The R&D Centre has extensive know-how in various extrusion processes, offset, flexo, rotogravure and digital printing, lacquering, glue and adhesive lamination, slitting and laser perforation, and bag and pouch production with various functional add-ons. The materials it focuses on include biodegradable polymers, transparent barrier materials, paper and polymer membranes. The R&D Centre's approach is to team up with customers and equipment producers at an early stage of product development to design innovative solutions that often pre-empt market needs.

Food and pet food are accurate indicators of changing lifestyles in the developed world. Convenience but also environmental aspects such as biodegradability and avoidance of excess packaging are high on the agenda. Key challenges include intelligent protection during shipping and storage, management of ripening, and ease of preparation and handling. In a highly competitive market, all these features must be combined with cost-effectiveness and attractive brand presentation. TINY HOLES Laser technology offers novel solutions to some of these issues. Tiny perforations, invisible to the naked eye, enhance the properties of stand-up pouches, plastic bags, and lidded trays for pet food, convenience food, fruit and vegetables, and medical products.

Sustainability is an absolute necessity for the leading businesses of today. Mondi has made a public commitment to integrating sustainable development into its business model. This includes the concept of product responsibility, which starts with the raw materials and ends with the downstream effects of the products. Mondi is one of the pioneering companies that attach strategic relevance to bioplastics and are therefore taking a lead role in the development of sustainable packaging. At the 'Bioplastics in Packaging' exhibition at the Interpack 2008, Mondi presents its unique portfolio of innovative biodegradable packaging solutions under the brand name Sustainex.

Top slider offers consumers a new level of convenience and boosts brand value In the competitive pet food segment, packaging adds value not just by protecting the product: an eye-catching look boosts brand recognition and plays an important part in the purchasing decision, while easy-opening features are good for customer loyalty. Mondi Consumer Flexibles is a leader in developing new features for pet food packaging in conjunction with customers and specialist partners. Our portfolio of tried and tested pouches and bags is complemented by a wide range of add-on features. The latest convenience solution is the Slide-Rite reclosable system, a top slider developed by Pactiv which is integrated into Mondi Consumer Flexibles' proven Single Lip bag.

Orion Packaging Systems (UK) Ltd, the Hereford based pallet wrapping manufacturer has ceased trading A lot of people have been left wondering how they are going to get their Orion equipment serviced Orion and Loveshaw always had a friendly rivalry. They had similar customers, collaborated on some projects and had been competitors on others. Both have supplied significant amounts of end-of-line packaging machinery, semi-automatic turntable pallet wrappers in particular. "Given the similarity in the customer base and in some of our products," said Kevin Green the Loveshaw general manger.

At Interpack, FlexLink will show how to meet today's requirements in production and packaging lines with the new X85 conveyor system and distributed line control. Increased capacity and line uptime The speed of filling and packaging machines increase year by year and a high speed today is an ordinary speed tomorrow. FlexLink have developed the new X85 conveyor to allow high speed applications up to 120m/min. Meeting the demand to minimize planned and unplanned production stops, thus maximizing the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), the X85 conveyor is designed in detail to achieve a high uptime.

Please visit the new KRELUS homepage with five application movies!

The leaflets are downloadable in five languages - German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.

KRELUS - the energy saving IR-system.

During the Pharma Packaging and Labelling event (March 26-27, Amsterdam), AlpVision demonstrates for the first time in public its best performing covert security feature. What is more, it is produced at zero production cost! This new solution incorporates a marked improvement over AlpVision's already widely deployed Cryptoglyph covert feature in being applied to the transparent varnish layer of the packaging or of the labelling. AlpVision, the leading supplier of digital imaging solutions for brand protection and document security, already protecting over a billion branded products worldwide, has transformed desire into reality: the application of a feature providing a very high level of covert security for packaging and labelling at zero production cost.

Coven Egidio S.n.c. will participate to Beauty World trade show in Dubai, UAE. The company will showcase for the first time the new manual perfume filling machine model MD 07.

This is the second year of participation to the growing show in Dubai, where Coven has a wide customer base and an agency with company NOORANI through their office located in Sharjah, UAE.

The booth location is Hall 1 Booth 015. Dates are May 18th-20th 2008

The Huber Group is a leading global player in the offset and packaging inks sectors. Its scope of performance includes the manufacture and marketing of printing inks, overprinting varnishes and coatings, fount concentrates and printing auxiliaries for the commercial, packaging, news printing and security printing sectors. Core-filler compounds for telecommunications cables, toner for laser printers and copiers and special engineering services for systems engineering and component manufacture round off the company's range of products and services. Further services offered by the Huber Group include basic and advanced training courses as well as consulting on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

Optima Packaging Group designs and produces automatic machines for the packaging of pharmaceuticals, paper hygiene, healthcare, medical, food, confectionery, detergents, cosmetics, powders and liquids. Optima is a globally-acting manufacturer of filling and packaging machines. We develop highly specialised and flexible technical solutions optimally adapted for your products. As part of the Optima packaging group we have a strong commitment to a worldwide service operation ‐ underlined by the fact that we have our own subsidiaries in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, UK and Japan. POWDER FILLING SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS The Optima group offer a wide range of products for the pharmaceutical, food, beverage and confectionery industries, including complete lines for powdered drinks, antibiotics and detergents.

The Bericap Group is one of the world's leading closure manufacturers of plastic closures. Bericap produces closures for the metal, plastic and carton container industries to an annual volume of around 45 billion pieces. Please contact us to find the perfect closure for your container. With 18 factories in 17 countries across the world, on-going projects in several countries of Asia and Middle East, and a network of licensees and partners, Bericap can offer a truly global service to supply similar products made according to the same quality and service standards to its global customers. With four central R&D centres in France, Germany, Spain and Turkey, two mould shops in Hungary and Poland, and several satellite R&D offices in its main operations, Bericap is particularly committed to development and innovation in plastic closures for its customers.

Mullins Cheese is one of the best-known cheese makers in Wisconsin in the US. The cheese facility is located in the town of Knowlton, around four miles south of Mosinee near Interstate 39. The company has been producing quality cheese since 1970 and the plant has expanded several times since, although it remains on the same site. "The latest addition to the technology at the Mullins plant is a new automatic bagging system." The company uses the latest technology to produce 40lb blocks of Cheddar, Colby Cheese, Monterey Jack Cheese, Jacko (marble) Cheese and wheels of Parmesan Cheese.

Russia is a much more sophisticated market for food and beverage products than it used to be; over the last 20 years a number of companies have moved into Russia to provide items that were not available before. The South of Russia, near the border with Turkey in the Black Sea and North Caucasus regions, is a vast market for beer, wine and mineral water. However, a plentiful supply of bottles is required for production and there is very little bottle production in the region, which has only 4% of the glass container production capacity of Russia. "The capacity upon completion will be around 240,000 bottles a year.

Cristalia Premium Water is one of the Caribbean's best-known and most popular bottled water brands. The company's revenue has increased by 400% over the last eight years, fed by the huge growth in the tourist trade. "The company's revenue has increased by 400% over the last eight years." Because of the success of the brand, the company is now in the process of completing construction of a new 80,000ft² bottling plant in Carolina, near San Juan Airport. The fully integrated plant will process water, produce bottles and ship to the customer. The new facility will be four times bigger than the current plant and the company will spend $12m on water processing, bottle production and bottling equipment.