Toyo Ink and DIC align deinking tests, Horizon hits 162 sheets a minute, crude reaches $102.79 — and 7 more | BPJ News
Shared metrics, buffers between processes, consultative sales and distributed production networks reveal competitive ground beyond machine speed.
Flexible packaging now has a common yardstick for comparing materials, while digital print equipment designed to cut waiting time between processes has moved to the foreground. Higher oil prices, suspected misuse of customer information and weaker retail profits will reach printers through different routes: costs, access controls and promotional proposals.
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In packaging materials, work is advancing on evaluation standards shared across companies.
Horizon will unveil buffers designed to reduce waiting time between processes.
Overseas, publishing services are expanding into Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In Japan, around 80 print factories and partner companies gathered at a Mimaki trade show.
Toyo Ink and DIC developed a joint deinking and delamination protocol on October 7…
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