
Packaging Supply Chain news from the Asia Pacific
INDIA – The Indian Label Industry is registering almost double-digit growth, and companies are still aggressively expanding. Harveer Sahni, Managing Director of Weldon Celloplast Limited, discusses this in his special commentary piece.
US - A new die-cutting technology, called Avery Dennison ThinStream(TM), developed by pressure-sensitive label material manufacturer Avery Dennison, allows the die-cutting of labels with a liner as thin as 12 microns, half of the current minimum in the market.
JAPAN – Japanese barcode printing, labelling and EPC/RFID solutions provider SATO has launched its new SATO CUPS Driver in Asia Pacific, allowing users to print labels from Linux or Mac OS X system using SATO’s thermal printers and providing greater flexibility for Linux and Mac OS X users as they can now integrate printing seamlessly into their computing systems.
GLOBAL – Earlier this week, Mike Fairley discussed the evolutionary changes that have taken place in label printing technology over the last three decades. In this second part of his analysis, he takes a look at digital label printing.
GLOBAL - Label printing technology has changed over the years since the first recorded printed labels were being produced more than 400 years ago, and label converters are facing tougher press investment decisions today.