We talked with Renata Tomerlin about her new responsibilities and activities following her promotion to the Head of the Design and Packaging Department in Podravka d.d. six months ago. Renata Tomerlin and her team are aware that the complexity of packaging requires serious deliberation and approach, and their dedication is reflected in the final result – top quality packaging of which Podravka has been proud for a long time. Packaging is an important segment of Podravka’s business strategy and

Croatia does not have a single educational institution dedicated exclusively for providing educational programmes for packaging industry. Is it just negligence, which nobody has the strength and power to correct, or the situation is really so complicated? We talked with educational institutions representatives, users and producers of packaging and found alternatives which could improve the situation.

Grafičar d.d. from Ludbreg is a renowned and reliable cardboard packaging, label, bag, promotional material and office supplies producer. Main feature of the company is high technological development and a long and rich printing tradition. We talked with Franjo Beser, director of the company, about the occupational retraining they have been organizing together with vocational graphic arts highs school from Zagreb. He commented on the graphic arts education system in Croatia, which he finds insuf

Croatia does not have a single educational institution dedicated exclusively for providing educational programmes for packaging industry. Is it just negligence, which nobody has the strength and power to correct, or the situation is really so complicated? We talked with educational institutions representatives, users and producers of packaging and found alternatives which could improve the situation.

In a fierce competition of 237 nominees from 35 countries, CROPAK 2009 winner SMS olive oil, designed by Boris Ljubičić and produced by Eti Trade from Pazin, was awarded WorldStar award in Food Packaging category. The winner of this year’s Student creative workshop CROPAK, Marino Krstačić Furić, a student of Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka, won a Certificate of Recognition in WorldStar Student category for his redesign of Kraš Vic crackers and salted sticks.

Belišće d.d., a renowned producer of paper and cardboard packaging, marked their 125th jubilee in Osijek in the beginning of December. Among other respectable guests, the event was also attended by Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor. Since 1960, core business of Belišće d.d. is the production of semichemical pulp, paper and packaging. Belišće d.d., as well as the whole Belišće Group, strives to be a reliable and top-quality partner by providing its customers with exactly what they want and

Tetra Pak Production factory from Gornji Milanovac put into production a new machine for printing on packaging, worth nine million euro, in late October. This machine presents the biggest and the most significant single investment into Novi Milanovac factory so far. Packaging production licensed by Tetra Pak in Gornji Milanovac started in 1966 and was privatised in 1997 when the factory became a part of the Tetra Pak group. Since then, numerous investments have been made to modernize the product

Kodak’s unified workflow divides printing processes into four separate, but interdependent, workflows: business, colour management, production and data management. The main goal is to integrate and connect these systems. This will enable fully intelligent automatization which eliminates repetition of operations, reduces waste and creates platforms for further development. It is a comprehensive solution built on the principles of modularity. Kodak bases the development of new products on the hist

ISM company from Vienna gathered its partner companies Windmöller & Hölscher, Garant Maschinen and Zecher in Hotel Antunović Congress Hall in October at a conference where they presented their technological novelties. Highly educated presenters with abundant experience in graphic arts and packaging industry delivered a practical and detailed overview of the industry sectors. Thus informed, the participants of the congress concluded that the region is slowly but steadily becoming ready to take th