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October 16, 2026

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Machinery

Wanjie India targets 50 installations by 2028 after selling 11 presses in its first year

Wanjie India has sold 11 printing presses and 40 finishing systems in its first year, setting an aggressive target of 50 installations by 2028.

Oct 15
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Market News

Robatech redesigns PerfectFold to attack fishtailing and folding variation in corrugated boxes

Robatech launches the second generation of its PerfectFold liquid creaser, featuring the new Sirius control to eliminate fishtailing in corrugated boxes.

Oct 15
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Market News

Mondi posts €196M Q3 EBITDA as higher packaging prices collide with rising energy and wood costs

Mondi reports €196M Q3 EBITDA, successfully raising packaging prices but facing continued margin pressure from escalating energy and wood costs in Europe.

Oct 15
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Market News

Billerud pushes fresh fiber into dry pharmaceutical packaging with PharmaKraft

Billerud has launched PharmaKraft, a fresh fiber-based material designed to replace conventional structures in non-sterile dry pharmaceutical packaging.

Oct 15
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Sustainability

Duran Doğan climbs 14 points in EcoVadis rating to reach the 82nd percentile

The Turkish folding carton manufacturer improves its sustainability score from 59 to 73 in a single year, demonstrating tangible progress in ESG metrics.

Oct 15
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academy

Koenig & Bauer's Eric Frank takes PPC top honor after 52 years shaping print

Koenig & Bauer's Senior VP of Marketing Eric Frank receives the 2026 PPC Volunteer Leader Award of Excellence, honoring a 52-year career in the print industry.

Oct 15
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Market News

Port Hawkesbury Paper appoints technical profile Bruno D'Amato to lead Canadian specialty sales

Port Hawkesbury Paper promotes Bruno D'Amato to Director of Canadian and Specialty Paper Sales, leveraging his four decades of hands-on pressroom experience.

Oct 15
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Machinery

Voith expands West Monroe roll service capacity by 50 percent in its largest recent North American investment

Voith has completed a multi-million-dollar expansion of its West Monroe roll service center, increasing its footprint by nearly 50%.

Oct 15
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Market News

AF&PA demands California pause SB 54 implementation to protect established recovered fiber markets

AF&PA escalates its challenge against California's SB 54, warning that the law unfairly regulates highly recycled paper alongside hard-to-recycle materials.

Oct 15
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Market News

Komori press elevates color control to a patient safety standard at Grafibox Sud

Komori's new press installation at Grafibox Sud proves that rapid color control is a critical patient safety requirement in pharmaceutical packaging.

Oct 15
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Sustainability

Tetra Pak scores 87 in EcoVadis assessment to secure top 1% position among 150,000 global companies

Tetra Pak has earned its second consecutive EcoVadis Platinum medal with an improved score of 87/100, ranking in the top 1% of over 150,000 assessed companies.

Oct 15
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Systems

Heidelberg brings humanoid robots and AI to the center of the hybrid print factory

Heidelberg showcased humanoid robots and AI-driven hybrid print production at SHIFT 2026, positioning itself as a complete system integrator for the industry.

Oct 15
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Sustainability

Dart Container scales domestic molded fiber production to full capacity in Pennsylvania

Dart Container's Lancaster facility has reached full operational capacity, producing molded fiber trays and bowls at an industrial scale for the US market.

Oct 15
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Market News

International Paper brings back DS Smith as an independent European packaging giant

International Paper will spin off its EMEA packaging business into an independent company that will reclaim the DS Smith plc name, led by Tim Nicholls.

Oct 15
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Machinery

Koenig & Bauer Corrugated targets the productivity-quality gap at LatamCORR Brasil

Koenig & Bauer Corrugated will present strategies at LatamCORR Brasil 2026 to optimize corrugated production, focusing on consistent quality over raw speed.

Oct 15
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Market News

Suzano blurs the line between fiber producer and packaging developer at LatamCORR

Suzano's Francisco Zambon takes the stage at LatamCORR to demonstrate how integrating fiber properties with structural design optimizes corrugated packaging.

Oct 15
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Sustainability

Go-Pak Group appoints Eilis Wright to lead its net-zero packaging strategy by 2050

Go-Pak Group has appointed Eilis Wright as ESG and Sustainability Manager to drive its environmental strategy and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Oct 14
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Machinery

MHI challenges Latin American corrugators to match mature market productivity at LatamCORR Brasil

Giovanni Bettini will detail how Latin American plants can maximize their installed assets using MHI's global operational strategies this November in Campinas.

Oct 14
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Systems

OneVision embeds autonomous AI into prepress to eliminate manual file correction

German software developer OneVision introduces AI Services and AI Queries to automatically correct prepress files and translate unstructured data into production tickets.

Oct 14
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Machinery

Marbach targets die-cutter drift to cut make-ready time and restore register accuracy

Marbach's Calibration Tool addresses mechanical drift in aging die-cutters by restoring the original register across all machine stations to reduce setup times.

Oct 14
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Machinery

Vinfoil Optima SF110 lands at Grand Master to boost premium packaging in Armenia

Vinfoil has successfully installed its Optima SF110 cold transfer system at Grand Master in Armenia, supported by Koenig & Bauer, to elevate premium packaging.

Oct 14
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Events

ROTOCON integrates flexo, SCREEN technology and Pantec embellishment into a single label platform

ROTOCON presents a unified label production platform at Propak Cape 2026, integrating flexo, SCREEN digital printing, and Pantec premium embellishment.

Oct 14
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