Published 11 times a year, PACKAGiNG & Print Media is a vertically-integrated monthly magazine serving both packaging printers/converters and packaging end users in the FMCG industries.
To provide readers - whether packaging printers and converters, or FMCG manufacturers - with the most up-to-date information on technological developments affecting their businesses; keeping them abreast of worldwide and local trends in all aspects of packaging printing, design, materials usage, and other relevant technologies.
To provide advertisers with a medium through which they can be totally confident of reaching precisely the category of readers who are likely to be interested in and therefore likely to purchase their products or services.
To maintain editorial standards at an extremely high level, with an editorial staff intimately involved and completely conversant with the various technologies included in the magazine. Key within this editorial policy are context and relevance.
As the official journal of the Flexographic Technical Association of South Africa (FTASA), PACKAGiNG & Print Media devotes considerable coverage to the topic of flexographic printing & its various components – sleeves, anilox rolls, doctor blades, engraving systems, plate mounting systems, and much more. Flexography is a major process for printing a number of packaging materials, and today compares easily in quality with rival printing processes. It’s used to print corrugated containers, folding cartons, multiwall paper sacks, flexible packaging, labels, adhesive tapes & liquid packaging cartons.
Paper is a dynamic product that continually rises to the challenges of new technologies. PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s coverage includes the processes involved in the production of folding cartons, such as folding, creasing, die-cutting and gluing, the various processes used to erect and fill cartons on the packaging line, and their use as a secondary pack for transportation and retail display.
With some 50% of raw polymers going into the production of plastics packaging. this is an important – and growing – sector of the packaging industry. PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s coverage includes the many production methods used – extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding, injection stretch blow moulding, to name but a few – to produce plastics packaging, and the use of plastics for an ever-increasing number of packaging applications.
Rigid container packaging includes container packaging includes glass jars and bottles, plastic bottles and containers, tinplate and aluminium cans, ampoules, aerosols, aluminium bottles, tubs, tubes, closures, lids, and much more. PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s coverage includes the entire packaging supply chain – from raw materials, through printing and converting to the myriad end uses for these containers.
The conversion of kraft paper into corrugated sheet or corrugated containers, is a traditional mainstay when it comes to transporting goods safely and securely from point of manufacture to point of sale. PACKAGiNG & Print Media regularly review the latest advances in the manufacture of corrugated board, box design, and the growing trend towards the use of ‘retail ready’ corrugated boxes for easy in-store display.
Aseptic cartons are available in a growing number of shapes and sizes,but the energy-efficient and source-reduced construction remains the same.Minimal layers of paperboard, plastic and aluminium foil create a protective barrier that blocks out nutrient-destroying light, preserves freshness without the need for preservatives and eliminates costly and energy-demanding refrigeration. PACKAGiNG & Print Media keeps readers continually updated on developments in this field, including specialised filling equipment, convenience-enhancing closures, and much more. Also included under this general heading is bag-in-box packaging for food and non-food, liquid and semi-liquid products.
The world of labels includes pressure-sensitive, wet-glue, in-mould labelling (both injection and blow-moulded), wraparound labelling, shrink and stretch film labels, booklet labels – indeed all the common labelling technologies used as a primary decoration technique for on-shelf appeal and as an important means of on-pack communication. PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s coverage includes the entire labelling supply chain – from self-adhesive labelstock, adhesive, film and paper developments, through printing and converting to the countless uses of labels.
Flexible packaging primarily involves polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene film supplied in reel-form for form-fill-seal use or converted into a variety of pouches and bags. Also included here are speciality barrier films, metallised films and tamper-evident shrink sleeves. Multiwall paper sacks also fall into the broad category of flexible packaging. PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s coverage includes the entire packaging supply chain – from raw materials, through printing and converting to the various end uses for flexible packaging.
CiRCULATION
PACKAGiNG & Print Media’s circulation list includes senior management at all commercial printers, packaging printers and converters throughout Southern Africa, as well as packaging line managers/packaging specifiers and buyers at all FMCG companies and retailers throughout Southern Africa. Circulation of printed copies is above 4 000 copies/month, while the online magazine is read by a further 500 subscribers throughout the world. A dedicated Circulation Manager is employed to ensure that the mailing list remains updated and relevant at all times.
Further information is available from our business managers:
Gauteng
SUSI MOORE
mobile: +27 082 5686729
tel : +27 010 594 0342
e-mail: [email protected]
Western Cape & KwaZulu Natal:
GLYWNNIS WELLS
mobile: +27 083 4655874
tel: +27 021 762 8825
e-mail: [email protected]
