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hubergroup takes BOPE films to a new level with the new Gecko 2-Component Varnish

22 May 2025
  • hubergroup

BOPE (Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene) films are known for their excellent recyclability, but their limited temperature resistance has so far been an obstacle to broader industrial applications. With the new Gecko 2-Component Varnish 70GL426590, hube...

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How Canon is redefining image-to-print excellence in Africa

20 May 2025
  • Canon

By Amine Djouahra, B2B Business Unit Director of Canon Central & North Africa   A photograph is more than just an image - it’s a memory, an emotion, a piece of art. Whether it’s a striking portrait, a wedding album filled with o...

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Summa Launches 160 x 250 cm F1625 digital flatbed cutter

20 May 2025
  • Summa

Digital cutting innovator, Summa, is excited to announce the official debut of its latest flatbed cutter – the F1625. Specifically engineered for wide format printing professionals, the F1625 is a 160x250 cm flatbed cutting solution that combin...

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Using art and song to help solve South African plastic waste

18 Jul 2023

A pioneering scheme using street art, theatre and song aims to reduce open dumping and burning of waste as well as increase plastic recycling in Mpumalanga, South Africa.     Uncontrolled plastic waste disposal is becoming an increas...

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Use the power of purpose to sell your business

18 Jul 2023

Telling a powerful story that sets your brand and products or services apart from the competition is paramount to your business success. Most of us know the often frustrating question from children: ‘Why?’ Yet, “why” is the be...

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Unique value chain collaboration “Design4Circularity” achieves first circular cosmetics packaging concept

18 Jul 2023

Moving circular plastic packaging forward, in a first and unique collaboration for the Personal Care industry, Clariant, Siegwerk, Borealis and Beiersdorf are combining expertise to tackle the challenge of creating recyclable consumer packaging, base...

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4 steps to transforming a small business into a company of substance

18 Jul 2023

Many entrepreneurs start a business with the dream of scaling it, sustaining it and building it into an asset that has value beyond the sum of the physical things it owns. Yet business owners can all too easily find themselves getting stuck into day-...

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Social media is not a viable PR strategy

18 Jul 2023

A teenager receives a note from the back of the class: ‘Do you like me? Tick the box: Yes or No.’ A sign of intent, to be sure.   But it’s fanciful to believe that a simple “like” creates a relationship of substan...

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Putting User Experience at the Heart of Healthcare Innovation

18 Jul 2023

Healthy Innovators TV, has a weekly live panel that brings health tech innovation to the screens of its viewers. In one of the episodes, host Brian Shrier, Founder at GIANT Health, invited special guests Dane Whitehurst and Hamish Grierson to talk ab...

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Designing memorable customer experiences

18 Jul 2023

There are iconic luxury brands that have mastered the art and science of designing extraordinary customer experiences. One of the best displays of this mastery is in the high-end lodges and safari tourism sector. These lodges do not sell safari holid...

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Great customer experiences don’t just happen, but they can be manufactured

12 Jul 2023

At this point, most businesses understand the importance of customer experience. They know that providing a great customer experience can help their organisation stand out from competitors, while fostering loyalty and trust.   Far too many bu...

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Hiring for potential in the war for talent

12 Jul 2023

Globally, employers are arming themselves for war. But this war is not taking place on a battlefield or in the trenches – it’s taking place in the boardroom. The critical scarcity of skills, in the era of “the great resignation&rdqu...

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Citroën and BASF unveil electric concept car, oli

12 Jul 2023

It’s no longer about the fastest or most luxurious car. Citroën and BASF have unveiled their all-electric concept car, oli [all-ë], a manifesto to how much can be saved by reducing weight and resource usage.   ‘This conc...

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12 Jul 2023
  • Kalideck

The COP27 strapline, “Together for Implementation”, is a clarion call for the printing industry to mitigate with purpose, the potential impact our industry has on global warming and ultimately, on the ensuing floods and droughts that we h...

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What is the new black?

03 Jul 2023

Have you seen the latest Rolls-Royce? The Black Badge Ghost. It’s the blackest Rolls-Royce ever specified, featuring the “deepest, darkest, heaviest black” ever put on a Rolls-Royce. The marketing for this new edition is almost all ...

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From interest to purchase: The role of wide format and window graphics

03 Jul 2023

Shopfront windows present invaluable opportunities for businesses, brands and retailers to advertise products and raise awareness, with a view of enticing potential customers into their doors and guide them on their journey from interest to purchase....

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10 key concepts to overcome change fatigue and create a winning working environment

30 Jun 2023

The truth is that fatigue is a very common feeling for most of us at this time of year, as we deal with a year’s worth of pressure in addition to the demands of always being available and having to respond instantly. This has blurred the lines ...

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Paper bags, the natural choice

30 Jun 2023

There is increasing concern about the overuse of plastic bags and particularly their contribution to marine litter. EU countries have taken action by introducing bans, charges and other initiatives to limit their use. Whilst a general reduction in un...

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Mental health plays a crucial role in the workplace

30 Jun 2023

Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health has been front and centre of the workplace refocus of late and rightly so. More than 30% of adult South Africans suffer from some sort of mental health issue, affecting their ability to think clearly and...

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Are you fluent in the universal language of touch?

30 Jun 2023

The powerful sense of touch is what we have missed the most during the pandemic, according to an article published in The Guardian at the end of February this year. It is a universal language that allows us to connect in different ways.  The ro...

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