The portfolio features a new environmentally friendly facestock, 60# Hemp paper. It is made from 25% hemp and 75% post-consumer wood.

UPM Specialty Papers partners with Cycle4green to boost label industry circular economy by collecting and recycling release liner base papers. Cycle4green works with labelstock producers and converters, collecting used material to remove silicon.

Ritrama's latest addition is the PE SMART MATT, a brand new matte-effect polyethylene film designed specifically for the creation of high-impact labels for the food, beverage and personal care sectors.

Intelligent labels — applicable in product categories such as beauty, food, grocery, beverage or apparel — are providing never-before seen connectivity for consumers and supply chain segments.

SAB (South Africa Brewery, ABInBev Group company) is the first company worldwide to adopt Ritrama's Core Linerless Solutions to label its beer bottles.

With the introduction of the Codimag VIVA 420 narrow web press, used together with Toray IMPRIMA LJ waterless offset plates, waterless offset truly competes with flexographic printing technology for label printers and converters.

ProMach, a worldwide leader in packaging machinery solutions, announces that it has acquired Jet Label & Packaging, Western Canada’s largest producer of labels for a variety of industries.

Xeikon has developed a specific solution for printers looking to enhance and increase their range of labels. It is the combination of the Xeikon X-800 workflow and the PantherCure UV ink that can generate a tactile layer, responsible for a so called “haptic effect” in print.

The next generation for sustainable packaging is now available in the Americas with the introduction of the UPM Raflatac RAFNXT+ paper label range.