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        FUJIFILM Integrated Inkjet Solutions has introduced the DE1024 Digital Embellishment Printbar System and the FUJIFILM 42X Printbar System to enhance high-speed, drop-on-demand print technology for various applications.
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        The DE1024 Digital Embellishment Printbar System is engineered to add digital embellishments, such as spot varnish, to various packaging and is supposed to easily integrate onto label presses and related machines. 
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        FUJIFILM claims that the new FUJIFILM 42X Printbar System provides easy-to-use controls for four-color edge-to-edge printing and enables businesses and brand owners to add advanced digital printing capabilities to their existing equipment conveniently.&nbsp;
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 <p>FUJIFILM Integrated Inkjet Solutions has launched the DE1024 Digital Embellishment Printbar System and the FUJIFILM 42X Printbar System for enhancing high-speed, drop-on-demand print technology across multiple applications.</p>
 <p>The DE1024 system is specifically designed to add digital embellishments like spot varnish, to various kinds of packaging materials, thus ensuring their seamless integration with label presses and related machinery.</p>
 <p>The FUJIFILM 42X Printbar System, as claimed by FUJIFILM, facilitates easy-to-use controls for four-color edge-to-edge printing. This system enables businesses and brand owners to add advanced digital printing capabilities to their existing setup conveniently.&nbsp;</p>
 
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Fujifilm introduces new integrated inkjet products to enhance high-speed print technology

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 <p>Processing and packaging solutions provider, ProMach, has acquired Etiflex, a Mexican company that produces pressure-sensitive and radio-frequency identification (RFID) labels. This acquisition represents ProMach's expansion into the Mexican market.</p>
 <p>By acquiring Etiflex, ProMach will enhance its labeling and coding capabilities across North America. The acquisition is expected to extend ProMach's capacity to provide comprehensive labeling equipment solutions beyond its established markets in the United States and Canada.</p>
 <p>Etiflex is based in Mexico City and is known for converting variable information-printed labels, tickets, and RFID labeling. The company supplies label-converting solutions to a variety of sectors such as food and beverage, automotive, pharmaceutical, and personal care.</p>
 
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ProMach acquires Etiflex to improve labeling capabilities and expand in North America

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 <p>Scodix, a company specializing in digital embellishments, has introduced Scodix AI, an AI-powered tool aimed at automating the design process for embellishments. The company believes this tool would help print providers and designers to distinctively position themselves in a competitive market by mechanizing the embellishment design process.</p>
  
 <p>The Scodix AI tool leverages collected data to suggest design options for embellishments autonomously. It works in harmony with any web interface and can be integrated into web-to-print platforms and online storefronts. Additionally, Scodix AI can be used along with Scodix Sense and Scodix Foil applications to add glossy, embossed textures or personalized foil coating to prints.</p>
 <p>The firm offers digital print enhancement presses, providing embellishment solutions aimed at the print industry. Scodix presses are developed for a variety of applications, encompassing commercial print, packaging, web-to-print, publishing, and branding.&nbsp;</p>
 
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Scodix introduces Scodix AI for print design automation

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 <p>Amcor, a global packaging solutions provider, plans to exhibit its newest products at the International Cheese &amp; Dairy Expo in the UK. These are focused on innovative, lightweight, and reusable packaging. Amcor's latest product, the Dual Function Frozen Yogurt Package, was developed in partnership with Gualapack Brasil.</p>
 <p>The Dual Function Frozen Yogurt Package is a unique pouch that offers consumers the choice to use it either as a creamy yogurt packet or an icy treat pouch, showcasing its key features.</p>
 
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Amcor to introduce innovative packaging solutions at International Cheese & Dairy Expo in UK

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 <p>Voidless has raised EUR 2.2 million (~USD 2.4 million) in a seed funding round, led equally by CDP Venture Capital and 360 Capital each investing EUR 1.1 million. </p>
 <p>This funding will facilitate Voidless's market expansion and team growth, focusing on their innovative packaging machinery which creates bespoke boxes for each delivery, right in the warehouses. </p>
 <p>The company's on-demand packaging technology helps logistics operators streamline packing processes and minimize waste.</p>
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Voidless raises EUR 2.2 million in seed funding for product development and market expansion

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 <p>Krones, a German company that focuses on packaging and bottle production, has publicized its intentions to acquire Netstal, a Swiss firm that provides injection molding machines.</p>
 <p>Krones plans to integrate Netstal into its filling and packaging technology division after the acquisition. The areas of Netstal's business related to PET and Cap are set to enhance Krones’ product offerings in the beverage industry.&nbsp;</p>
 <p>In addition, Netstal's proficiency in the medical and thin-wall packaging sectors will aid Krones' strategy of diversification into the medical, pharmaceutical, food, and home-personal-care markets.</p>

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Krones acquires Swiss injection molding supplier Netstal to diversify product offering

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 <p>Ennoventure has introduced a sophisticated anti-counterfeit technology aimed at efficient brand protection. This technology implements invisible signatures in product packaging that can be authenticated through smartphones.</p>
 <p>Key features of the technology entail geolocation and timestamps on images which serve as evidence of the fake products' locations. It also provides brands with evidence timing, a crucial detail particularly in instances related to unauthorized production by former associates.</p>
 <p>According to the firm, this technology is a cost-efficient solution that lessens legal expenses and eases the labor of legal teams. It permits them to gather evidence quickly and enforce legal actions against counterfeiters. The technology also significantly improves legal defenses against brand abuse and intellectual property violation.</p> 
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Ennoventure unveils advanced brand protection technology to combat counterfeiting

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 <p>Cognex has acquired Japan-based optics components provider Moritex from Trustar Capital for approximately JPY 40 billion or USD 275 million.</p>
 <p>By incorporating Moritex's optics components into its existing product line, Cognex aims to enhance its machine vision inspection systems and provide a more complete solution to its customers. This move into the optics components sector is predicted to expand Cognex's market share and increase its reach in the Japanese machine vision market.</p>
 <p>Moritex, with over five decades of experience in the industry, specializes in standard optical components and serves various industrial markets by developing and selling high-precision solutions for equipment manufacturers.</p>
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Cognex acquires Moritex for JPY 40 billion to expand Optics components portfolio

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 <p>Jack Knott, a veteran in the flexible packaging industry and former CEO of ePac Flexible Packaging, has been appointed as an executive advisor at Juno DTS.</p>
 <p>At Juno DTS, Knott will be involved in assisting the company’s expansion plans and market adoption. His extensive experience in successfully growing companies will be utilized in the company's strategy.</p>
 <p>Knott has a track record of taking ePac Flexible Packaging from a single plant to a global company with 23 plants in just seven years. Juno plans to use Knott’s experience in disrupting the packaging industry with a focus on digital direct-to-shape manufacturing.</p>
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