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Trends in packaging: the view from the aisles
At Miraclon, we dedicated the first quarter of the year looking at the impact that changing consumer habits are having on packaging print. Now, several months into the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we've returned to these themes to see how consumer habits have been affected...
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Power Tool: Why ECG delivers for brands’ fast-changing needs, with PMC’s Paul Baker
The global Covid-19 pandemic has slowed FMCG brands’ drive to diversify their product ranges – because they’re struggling to meet record demand. But they still need their packaging to be printed in shorter runs, more flexibly, and still with quality that leaps off the shelf. This is where ECG comes in, says PMC’s Paul Baker. We asked him to tell us more…
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Amcor: The full flavor of expanding the color gamut
When Amcor ANZ was tasked with the print for a potato chip rebrand, pre-press manager Gary McQuiggan had to deliver an extreme spread of colors without compromising any particular product in the range – or breaking the bank. Here’s how flexo and four color Expanded Color Gamut helped him pull off the job and wow his customer…
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Film + flexo = the future for Pentaflex Films
After over 20 years as a leading Indian manufacturer of flexible packaging PE film, Pentaflex took the bold decision to add printing to its portfolio: not only that, but to take the flexo route, in a market dominated by gravure. Here's their story of success...
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Steurs Graphic Solutions has all eyes on a flexo future
Steurs reflects on how introducing flexo into its printing offer, 'to broaden its appeal to brands and converters', was a winning formula, for creating solutions for today and tomorrow.
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Reproflex 3: Making space for innovation
Reproflex 3 founder and joint managing director Andrew Hewitson explains his concept of 'headroom' the power of adding value through innovation and taking technology and putting the Reproflex stamp on it, all for the benefit of his customers.
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At home on the range
From plant-based to protein-packed, supersized and single-scoop, changing consumer tastes are driving brands to diversify their product ranges, offering greater variety and more flavours. While this adds complexity to the job of producing all the packaging, printers are actually thriving, thanks to the latest flexo innovations…
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Why brands love flexo
Over the past three months we have been focusing on how packaging print providers can meet brands’ needs. From our discussions with brands, industry organizations, analysts and award winning print customers, here are the top ten things we learned about why brands love flexo:
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Why brands love promo, with Packaging Collective’s Sanjay Patel
We caught up with Sanjay about relevance, risk, and the perils of promo print procurement for brands...
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How contrast is the key to promo print success
When UK-based InterFlex was tasked with printing a high impact promotion, operations director Mike Adams knew striking contrast would be the key to success. Here he shares how flexo helped him turn a tricky brief into an award-winner.
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How predictable + versatile = winning at promo print
Stefano d’Andrea has been working in flexo since 1989. These days he’s a flexographic process trainer and consultant, as well as technical expert for FTA-Europe and Atif, European and Italian flexographic technical associations, so who better to tell us why flexo is the perfect print process for limited edition packaging?