Sustainability, self-adhesive label materials and digital embellishment are three educational themes shaping the forthcoming Labelexpo Southeast Asia 2023, with learning opportunities at the three-day event in February to include a workshop, show floor themed café, and trail highlighting innovations from one of the industry’s fastest-growing areas.

Empire Screen Printing, a leading manufacturer of screen-printed products, enables its customers to practice lean manufacturing with decal sheets, where multiple labels are printed on a single sheet instead of being produced as individual decals. These multi-label sheets are ideal for equipment needing multiple decals. Decal sheets improve productivity, reduce the chance of error, and help facilitate novel production processes that advance lean manufacturing practices.

Tarsus Group, organizer of the Labelexpo Global Series, has announced that Labelexpo Asia 2022 will be postponed until 2023.

To drive further growth, leading digital printer manufacturer SCREEN Europe will complete the move to its new headquarters in Aalsmeer in the spring of 2023. The space, close to Schiphol Airport, will also house SCREEN’s new inkjet innovation center.

The winners of this year's Durst’s RSC Label Master Awards were officially revealed for the first time during Labelexpo Americas in Chicago from 13-15 September, where insights on the new Tau RSC platform, its printing technologies, ink systems, software and important developments were provided.

Labelexpo Americas 2022 was hailed an outstanding success as over 13,000 attendees flocked to the Donald E Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois.

Reducing gaps in production capacity and ever decreasing lead times were the key driving factors for Rudolf Koehler Etiketten GmbH (www.koehler-etiketten.com) to invest in a Xeikon CX300 digital printing system. The system was installed in June 2022 to complement a Xeikon CX3, which has been delivering excellent results for the last six years. “We have seen a significant need for expansion over the last three years, particularly during the pandemic, when the supply chains in the packaging industry were broken, resulting in increased demand for labels as an alternative medium,” explains Michael Markus, Managing Director at Koehler Etiketten.

SCREEN Graphic Solutions Co., Ltd. (SCREEN GA) has introduced a new high opacity white mode that offers more opaque white for the Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S, a specialized UV inkjet label printing system developed, manufactured and distributed by SCREEN GA.

Based in Blumenau, the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, Grafimax migrated to the label segment looking for new opportunities and chose the Durst Tau 330 RSC technology to produce labels in small and medium runs.

Esko will showcase how its latest innovations deliver workflow improvements to boost both digital print productivity and operational efficiencies when Labelexpo Americas returns next month.

Labelexpo Americas 2022 sees a number of exciting world premieres of digital press technology, marking a new stage in the transition between analog and digital printing.

Labelexpo Americas 2022 will feature a Digital Embellishment Trail showcasing the latest developments in digital decoration technology from tactile inkjet coating to digital foiling and laser die cutting.

The Durst Group’s Tau RSCi label printer made its debut in the American market in mid-2021 with an installation at Accu-Label of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The main objective of this investment was to drive the transformation from flexo to digital. One year on, the firm’s verdict is overwhelmingly positive.

With the installation of a SCREEN L350 SAI S, its second digital label printer, French company Étiquettes Pierre Foucher (EPF) is further expanding its offering.

Empire Screen Printing, a leading manufacturer of screen-printed products, highlights its warning, danger, and safety decals that keep people safe by warning them of potential hazards. The application of these products is in line with Empire's own commitment to the safety of its employees, with its proven safety record as an organization.

The companies and individuals nominated for this year’s Global Label Awards have been announced in the categories for Rising Star, Environmental Sustainability and Innovation.

Registration has opened for Labelexpo India 2022, South Asia’s leading labels and package print exhibition. The show will be held from 10-13 November 2022 at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR.

SCREEN has achieved a landmark in driving digital printing forward globally, with the sale of its 200th Truepress Jet L350 printer. The machine, a Truepress Jet L350UV SAI S, was sold to Hickman Label Company of Lebanon, Tennessee.

The organizers of Labelexpo Americas 2022 have confirmed the details of their conference and learning program for this year’s event - the region’s largest trade show for the label and package printing industry, now in its 17th edition. The high-profile speaker line-up includes representatives from ACTEGA, Avery Dennison, Blue Label Packaging Company, Cartes, Cerm, Channeled Resources, Finat, Fortis Solutions Group, GM, Henkel, HP Indigo, Kurz, Label Traxx, Mactac, S-One LP, TLMI, UPM Raflatac, Xeikon and 3M.

Before the war, the printing and packaging industry in Ukraine employed around 100,000 people, including 16,000 freelancers, working at more than 5,000 print and converting companies. To support many of them, Print Against War works to gather their needs, give a face and a voice to every Ukrainian printing company that asks for help, and structure as much assistance as possible with the help of market players. Based in Odessa, New Media is one of the hundreds of small and medium-sized Ukrainian printing and packaging companies in danger of not surviving the war. It will have to rewrite its future in the coming years.

Durst, world leader in inkjet label production, will be showcasing the wide range of applications possible for customers on its Tau inkjet single-pass presses on its stand A49 in Hall 1 at Packaging Innovations and Empack at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, from 25-26 May. Packaging applications, which will include a focus on Durst’s acclaimed water-based ink technology and P5 wide-format platform, will also be part of the show offering.