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Franconian Lacquer Specialties for safe food packaging

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:36:46 +0100

Press statement – for immediate release Franconian Lacquer Specialties for safe food packagingPickings of 7th Franconian Lacquer SpecialtiesGerhardshofen, 17.11.2011 – Under this year’s theme “safe printing – safe packaging”, WEILBURGER Graphics invited selected guests to the Franconian Lacquer Specialties in Gerhardshofen for the seventh time. Once again the event was fully booked and more than seventy attendees followed the comprehensive programme of Managing Director Günter Korbacher with his team and invited guest speakers.

Chip-Off effect coating – a new finishing process from WEILBURGER Graphics

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:58:23 +0100

Press statement – for immediate release Chip-Off effect coating – a new finishing process from WEILBURGER Graphics Gerhardshofen, 2nd November 2011 – The printing and packaging industry is constantly searching on new finishing processes, materials and effects. Such a new process presents WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH located in the franconian Gerhardshofen together with Merck KGaA and Model Kramp GmbH under the designation Chipp Off effect coating.The chip off effect coating is a two component finishing which can be applied by a printing press with one coating unit with UV drying.

New film laminating adhesive for food packaging

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:32:03 +0200

Press statement – for immediate releaseNew film laminating adhesive for food packaging WEILBURGER Graphics enlarges its product class SENOBOND® with a low-migration film laminating adhesiveGerhardshofen, 10. Oktober 2011 – WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, settled in the Franconian Gerhardshofen, launches a radical innovation in the field of film laminating adhesives, its new SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222 onto the market. The film laminating adhesive was especially developed for the application in the field of food packaging and for odour-sensitive products. SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222 is a water-based 2-component adhesive with excellent adhesion values for lamination of all common film types to absorbent substrates. The use of carefully selected raw-materials on a constant high-quality level in combination with an ISEGA certificate enables the legal use of this adhesive for food packaging and for packing of odour-sensitive goods.

Progress through Technology – Successful SENOFLEX® Workshop at WEILBURGER Graphics

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:44:31 +0200

Press statement – for immediate release Progress through Technology – Successful SENOFLEX® Workshop at WEILBURGER GraphicsSecond SENOFLEX® Workshop dealing with flexography Gerhardshofen, 04. October 2011 – For the second time WEILBURGER Graphics invited on 15th September to SENOFLEX® Workshop dealing with flexographic printing production. Almost forty invited guests accepted the invitation under the motto “Progress through Technology” and discussed commonly current subjects and possibilities in the flexographic premium packaging printing.After the official welcome by Günter Korbacher, managing director of WEILBURGER Graphics, Arno Dürr, sales director, guided through the comprehensive programme.

Safe printing – safe packaging

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:52:45 +0200

Press statement – for immediate release Safe printing – safe packagingVarnishes, inks and adhesives from WEILBURGER Graphics now even saferGerhardshofen, 22 August 2011 – the packaging industry is on the move and due to various recent food scandals planning to make the food packaging sector and associated industrial sectors such as the tobacco industry even safer than before. The relevant laws are being tightened up and the choice of suitable substrates, inks, varnishes and adhesives minimised. That is good for protecting consumers, but is a cause of sustained uncertainty for many service providers. It is for this reason that the company WEILBURGER Graphics has re-catalogued its complete range of products and re-evaluated it in terms of its food conformity in accordance with current statutory requirements and the recommendations issued by the key testing institutes and certifying bodies FABES and ISEGA as well as by the Swiss Commodities Act SR 817.023.21.

Value Added Packaging techniques announced by PrintCity Alliance members at Interpack

Fri, 27 May 2011 14:26:26 +0200

The new VAPack project focuses on the needs of brand owners & designers, to open discussions on the latest opportunities & benefits in using value added packaging techniques. PrintCity Alliance members UPM, Sun Chemical, M-real and Cofely announced their own Interpack fair news and also launched the new PrintCity Value Added Packaging (VAPack) project for world packaging markets.

Certified quality and sustainability in the industrial varnish and ink production

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:00:41 +0100

Press statement – for immediate releaseCertified quality and sustainability in the industrial varnish and ink productionWEILBURGER Graphics is now also certificated according to ISO 9001 : 2008 and ISO 14001 : 2004Gerhardshofen, 22nd February 2011 – Already last November the successfully passed audits regarding the certification according to the standards DIN EN ISO 9001 : 2008 and ISO 14001 : 2004 were realized by the DQS GmbH (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Zertifizierung von Managementsystemen) on the premises of WEILBURGER Graphics.The aim of the quality management norm DIN EN ISO 9001 : 2008 is to optimize permanently all processes of production in order to safeguard and to increase the quality level. Regarding the environmental standards ISO 14001 : 2004 the focus is put on a continuous optimizing process which respects all aspects of the environment protection. The international norm ISO 14001 is the worldwide most significant guideline which an environmental management in companies and other organizations shall contain and perform.

Successful first PrintCity Seminar in Poland - Benefits and Technologies for Value Added Printing

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:34:12 +0100

Mr Rafal Kasperek from the Boxes Prestige Poland Sp. z o.o. company is pictured asking a question at the November 18th PrintCity Alliance seminar in Warsaw. On November 18th, PrintCity members Cofely, Eltosch, manroland, M-real, Sappi, Sun Chemical, UPM and Weilburger Graphics delivered a highly successful first seminar in Warsaw, Poland. Called Benefits and Technologies for Value Added Printing, the seminar was targeted at Polish Sheetfed Printing & Packaging industry specialists, with moderation by Jacek Hamerliński of COBRPP - Research & Development Centre for the Graphic Arts.

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH – Contrasts of the Print Finishing

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:45:48 +0100

Press release – for immediate release WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH – Contrasts of the Print Finishing Pickings of the 6. Fränkische Lackspezialitäten (6. Franconian Lacquer Specialities) Gerhardshofen 23.11.2010 – “Contrasts” was this year’s theme of “Fränkische Lackspezialiäten” – the annual event of the WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH about the themes printing and finishing. And the program of the day should also be rich in contrast. This year again, top-class speakers from different metiers could be won to present the 60 attendees of the event different angles of the printing production. After the greeting by Mr. Günter Korbacher, managing director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, Mr. Arno Dürr, Head of Sales Department, guided the guests through the program. Mr. Gabriel Goldmayer of M-real then opened the lecture series with his talk titled “Contrasts vied by the cardboard manufacturer”, followed by Mr. Jürgen Kleinhans of BACARDI GmbH, who described the production and application of print finishing from the point of view of a brand name company with his speech “Look & Feel on the POS”. Dr. Michael Bartelt of Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH ended the series of morning lectures prior to the lunch break and viewing of the manufacturing facility with his lecture themed “Metallic Colours as Eye-catcher – Packaging & Contrasts created valuably”.

Workshop series „printing and finishing in flexography”

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:16:06 +0200

Press statement – for immediate release Workshop series „printing and finishing in flexography”Successful first SENOFLEX® workshop of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbHOn 27th of September, consciously one day before the start of the trade fair FachPack in Nuremberg, WEILBURGER Graphics invited to its first SENOFLEX® Workshop in Gerhardshofen in order to discuss the topic printing and finishing efficiency. Followed by the opening of Mr. Günter Korbacher, Dr. Alexander Faber and Dr. Jürgen Stropp presented the SENOFLEX® product series – a ink and coating series for high-quality flexo printing developed and optimized by WEILBURGER Graphics.

PrintCity Alliance at 3rd Creative Paper Conference in Munich

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:50:53 +0200

PrintCity Alliance member companies Kurz, Merck, Sappi, UPM and Weilburger Graphics are showing their products and services involved with Value Adding Printing at the third Creative Paper Conference in Munich on October 14 - 15, 2010.

PrintCity Alliance members participate in fifth Balkan Print Forum - Budapest

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:00:01 +0200

The 5th Balkan Print Forum being held in Budapest, Hungary, October 14-15, 2010 under the patronage of manroland, is being supported also by other PrintCity Alliance members Kurz, M-real, Océ, Sappi, UPM and Weilburger Graphics.

WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska Sp. z o.o. celebrates 10th anniversary

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:52:53 +0200

Press statement – for immediate releaseWEILBURGER Grafik-Polska Sp. z o.o. celebrates 10th anniversaryPoznan, 23rd September 2010 – The anniversary year of WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska is another milestone in the ten year old company history. In April 2010 the subsidiary company of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH in Gerhardshofen moved into a new corporate building on the outskirts of Poznan with a large office space of 250 m2 as well as a 1.000 m2 big warehouse.The success story began in the year 2000, when Josef Kurzok founded the company as a “one-man show” and managed it with great support of Marian Schwark. The high product quality of WEILBURGER Graphics in association with the technical know-how and the respective knowledge of the Polish market of Josef Kurzok proved to be an excellent combination so that the success soon followed. In the following years the turnover as well as the number of employees of the Polish selling agency increased continuously. Already in 2002 the first relocation into a bigger company building on the premises of BSC took place. Regular events throughout Poland – among other things the organization of the first varnish seminar in Szczecin at the end of 2006 as well as the realization of a seminar in Warsaw concerning “brand protection” at the end of 2009 – popularized the name WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska even further.

Ipex 2010 - PRINT IS BACK IN BUSINESS

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:42:42 +0200

Ipex 2010 sparks new wave of industry optimism Tens of millions of pounds invested Professor Frank Romano, international analyst and Ipex ‘Champion in Print’ best summed up the mood of exhibitors and visitors when he declared that “Ipex 2010 has demonstrated that the printing industry is back in business”.With one day of Ipex 2010 to go visitor attendance stood at just under 50,000 from 135 countries, excluding over 20,000 exhibitor, agents, dealers, distributor, OEM’s and 500 international media personnel. Most significantly, the international ratio has increased by 8% compared to 2006, with the overall visitor attendance representing 48%. This makes Ipex more international than any other business to business event in the UK.

WEILBURGER Graphics reinforces export business

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:57:05 +0200

Press statement – for immediate releaseWEILBURGER Graphics reinforces export businessNew branch in Spain and new sales office in the emirate SharjahGerhardshofen, April 21st 2010 – WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH with ancestral seat in Gerhardshofen concentrates increasingly on the extension of its export business. Current success stories are both a new company foundation in Spain and a new sales office of the long-term export partner Anoop Plastic Products in the gulf region. WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia S.L.Already on 1. January 2010 the company WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia S.L. in the Spanish region Comunidad Valenciana was set up. The company WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia is a new member of the GREBE Group and cooperates directly with the manufacturer of coating systems WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH.