Primera Technology Europe is presenting its new FX1200e Digital Finishing System at the Labelexpo Europe. The event is being held from Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. Primera’s booth is located at stand 9F72.

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James Heyes & Sons is a rather unusual recycling company in that it composts green waste and then uses this on the fields where its herd of cattle graze.

Managing Director James Heyes explains, “We have a suckler herd of 350 cattle, all of whom are with their calves at present. We compost the green waste and spread it on our pastures in rotation, which means that we use almost no artificial fertiliser.”

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In September 2009, Terry Herbert made an astonishing discovery with his metal detector in a farmer’s field just outside of Lichfield in Staffordshire; now known as the world-famous Staffordshire Hoard, over 3,500 Anglo-Saxon items were unearthed, all gold and silver with precious stone decorations.

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Returnable Transit Packaging (RTP) – Reusable plastic container products for storing, handling and distributing products, is increasingly replacing cardboard in the food and retail supply chains.

The Packaging Waste Directive in the UK has focused business on the clear logic that it is better to avoid packaging waste in the first place, than it is to dispose of it later. As a result, there has been a steady move towards returnable containers.

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Manufacturers of almost any type of product often find themselves in need of short-run, full-colour customised product labels. The reasons are many: for use on prototype products, promotional campaigns, and perhaps most often, because the manufacturer has many different products that are all produced in smaller quantities.

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