Large format: a cardboard support to replace PVC panels
This week, Antalis distributor Antalis launched the Dispa range of 3A Composites on the market. The products in the Dispa range are cardboard boxes that can replace the PVC foam panels commonly used in indoor and outdoor signage and advertising. The cardboard Dispa range is recyclable.
Call for applications for Typo Chips
The 11th edition of the Typo Flea will be held online from 17 to 22 May 2021. The typographic design and independent publishing fair organized by the Campus Fonderie de l'Image and designer Simon Renaud will bring together typographers, independent publishers and designers on an Internet platform.
A call for applications is launched to select the exhibitors for the 2021 edition. To participate and present your work, send your application before midnight on February 14 at the Campus Fonderie de l'Image.
New ink and coating plant for Flint
Flint Packaging Inks Group, a leading manufacturer of consumables and printing equipment for the packaging industry, is nearing completion of its new plant in Russia, south-west of Moscow. The site, which will replace Flint Group Packaging Inks' existing site in Moscow, is scheduled to open in early 2022.
The 7,100 m2 plant, which will employ more than 70 people, will serve the Russian and CIS market for water- and solvent-based ink and coatings.
Start of packaging production at Stora Enso's Oulu plant
The Finnish-Swedish paper group Stora Enso has completed the conversion of its coated paper mill in Oulu, Finland, into a Krafliner paper mill for packaging. Since mid-January, the mill has been in production and the newly converted machine is in the start-up phase.
This conversion, which began in May 2019, required an investment of 350 million euros. The packaging machine will ramp up during the first quarter and is expected to reach its planned production capacity by the end of this year.
The kraftliner produced, Stora Enso's AvantForte, has three layers of fibre, making it the strongest kraftliner in Stora Enso's portfolio.
Sales record for the cover of Tintin's Blue Lotus
On January 14, the cover of Tintin's Lotus Bleu (1936) by Hergé broke the sales record in the world of comics. "After a bidding war between three phones, this coveted masterpiece finally flew away at 3?175?400 euros" reported the French auction house Artcurial. The new owner, a "private collector." thus beats the record set in 2014 at 2.6 million euros (including costs) for the design of the cover pages of Tintin's albums.
Sold by the Casterman family, this cover in Indian ink, gouache and watercolour, with a black background, had finally not been edited because it was considered too detailed and complex for printing.
