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Opening of new Stölzle


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n Tuesday, 6th July, 2010, Stölzle Flaconnage officially opened the multi-million pound


upgrade carried out on their Knottingley, West Yorkshire factory. Some sixty clients and suppliers from both the UK and abroad gathered at the reborn factory site. After a buffet lunch, they were given guided tours of the glass and the decoration centres. Sixteen members of the Stölzle Brass Band came over from Austria to play for the guests. In the evening there was a Drinks Reception in the Tournament Gallery of the Leeds Royal Armouries Museum, and a demonstration of medieval weapons and armour. Dinner was in the Museum’s War Gallery, followed by a whisky tasting in the Wellington


Atlantic Zeiser to present advanced printing innovations


at FACHPACK in Nuremberg : 28-30 September 2010. Demonstrating versatile possibilities for high resolution industrial digital printing of variable data on absorbent and non-absorbent surfaces including 3D packaging, Atlantic Zeiser will present in Hall 9, Stand 256. The company provides system solutions for packaging, labelling, product, security and paper printing with near to offset quality at high production speeds. At the show, Atlantic Zeiser will also


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TOSHIBA TEC’s WILLPOS B10 POS Terminal


OSHIBA TEC has announced that it has had major interest in its WILLPOS B10 from two of the UK largest convenience stores after the launch event at Box Technologies. TOSHIBA TEC recently


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Aintree, Liverpool. The flexible conveyor is used to feed bags of brown flour directly into the mixer used to manufacture the base of Jacob's famous Club biscuits, Gold biscuits and some of the biscuits for its packs of Biscuits for


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Spiroflow flexible conveyor has been installed at Jacob's Bakeries factory in


signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Box Technologies, a leading technology and service provider. Under the agreement, Box


Technologies will manage deployment of the Toshiba WILLPOS B10 Point-of Sale (POS) terminal in the UK, in addition to the


exclusive service and repair of the product. Ideal for supermarkets, fashion outlets and entertainment companies, specialty footwear stores, pet stores, sports goods shops, pharmacies, hair dressers as well as discount and convenience stores, the WILLPOS B10 has an ultra-small footprint designed to be set either in horizontal or vertical position.


For more information visit www.toshibatec-eu.com.


tlantic Zeiser will showcase its integrated end- to-end DIGILINE™


Single Product solution


Suite. The upgrade, carried out in the teeth of the recession, has introduced state-of-the-art decoration machinery and increased the size of the decoration facility by over 50%; installed a major investment new furnace, and a brand new Customer Centre, together with a mould design department. For more information visit www.stoelzle.com.


London fancy box gains FSC and


demonstrate packaging-specific applications of the integrated OMEGA™


sectors as well as multiple four-colour models of the GAMMA™


printer on metal and plastics. For more information visit www.atlanticzeiser.com. printing module for different


PEFC certification London Fancy Box, (LFB) of Dover, Kent, has become the UK`s first rigid packaging manufacturer to be awarded Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and PEFC, Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification. The company received this accolade in July 2010, demonstrating its commitment to the promotion of responsible management of the world`s forests, for the benefit of its customers and the environment. The advantages of certification to London Fancy Box (LFB) are substantial. The company is demonstrating to its customers that it buys its paper and board from sustainable sources, i.e from sources which are well managed, protected and certified. LFB is playing its part within the “chain of custody” process, meaning the company can show where the materials have come from, tracing them back to the forest, through to delivery to the final customer. For more information call 01304 209934 or visit www.londonfancybox.co.uk.


Cheese. The new conveyor is 11m long, lifting the flour up some five metres at an angle of approximately 45°. It was linked to an existing sack tip station with integral check sifter. According to the Site Projects Manager, David Rome, “The new Flexible Screw Conveyor ran first time and has performed well ever since. In fact, the ‘Spiroflow’ Bulk Bag Discharger has been in operation for 14 years - trouble-free!” For more information call 01200 422525 or visit www.spiroflow.com.


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