News from Poland

6 Dec 2016 14:43

BauerŐs new printing house Construction of a new printing house of BDN, a German company which owns the Polish publishing house Bauer, is to begin in autumn this year. The facility will be located in Kamienna Góra, in the Special Economical Zone (South-Eastern Poland). The cost of the investment will be 85 million Euro. So far, an agreement for the purchase of 19 hectares of land has been signed. The new printing house is to begin operating in 2006. It will employ 150 people. The planned production profile will include periodicals and catalogues printed with the use of gravure method. It will be BauerŐs second printing house in Poland; the first one is located in Ciechanów and was in recent years expanded at the cost of 35 million Euro. The new investment, according to BDNŐs representatives, is connected with an increasing demand for production capacity in Eastern and Central Europe. Winners of Polish Packaging Competition PakStar 2004 Results of PakStar 2004 announced; this year the competition was organised under the auspices of the Minister of Economy and Labour and the President of World Packaging Organisation (WPO) by: Central Packaging Research and Development Institute, Polish Chamber of Packaging, International Poznan Fair and an industry information service, Citynet Media. In the category of single and group packaging, the winners were: Lean Pack Air for liquid products, a glass bottle for drinks, "Tymbark Life Active" and a Stable-Seal laminate bag for ground coffee and black tea. In the category of multiple and transport packaging awarded were: a folding box-palette made of polyethylene and polypropylene, Kolox GLT Plus, polyethylene foil bag for caustic hydroxides and ventilated polyethylene bag for mineral fertilizer. In the category of packaging materials, the winner was the Lean Cover Carbon Black (LCCB) foil for plant and animal fat packaging. The official award ceremony will take place at the opening of the International Packaging and Logistics Fair, Taropak in Poznan in September this year. The PakStar competition gives an opportunity to participate in the World Packaging Competition, WorldStar and thus opens the way for Polish products to increase their competitiveness on foreign markets. About EU funds at the Polish Chamber of Printing About 20 representatives of printing houses and businesses participated in a training on EU funds, organised in Warsaw by the Polish Chamber of Printing (PID) on 29th June. The mee-ting was headed by the Director of the Chamber, Ryszard Czekala. Also present was a representative of the Deutsche Leasing Polska company, with which PID had signed a cooperation agreement. The training presented methods of acquiring funds from the SPO-WKP program (Sectorial Operation Program Đ Raising Competitiveness of Businesses). It was only the first training in a cycle on that program planned by the Chamber. Ankovo and Adast: happy end Almost two years after the first reports of AdastŐs new distribution channels, the situation was clarified: from the 1st of July, Ankovo Ltd., AdastŐs long time partner on the Polish market, is the sole representative of the Czech manufacturer in Poland. We were informed of that at a press meeting at AnkovoŐs Warsaw office hosted by the General Director, Ales˙ Polcar. He also informed the participants of the mee-ting that Ankovo Ltd. changed hands: so far it had been Adast, at present there are three shareholders: Ales˙ Polcar, Miroslaw Wysokinski and Krzysztof Truchel. The company employs 19 people, 8 of whom are service workers. Besides offset presses, Ankovo offers prepress equipment, Adast binding machines and Van Son printing inks. Digital print at Lotos Poligrafia Lotos Poligrafia, a Warsaw-based company, is one of few offset printing houses which decided to expand its offer adding to it digital print. Lotos did so by installing the Xerox DocuColor 6060 system. It was a reaction to numerous clientsÔ enquiries regarding a possibility of additional print of a small number of copies, making personalised prints or fast printing of conference materials. Thanks to the introduction of digital print, Lotos Poligrafia is now able to satisfy needs from 1 to 200 thousand copies. Internet marketplace for printers and print buyers PrintinPoland.com, a new Internet marketplace for printers from Poland and print buyers from around the world, starts its operations in August. It is a communications marketplace either for Polish printing houses loo-king for new partners or for international print buyers willing to order printed jobs of all kinds: from business cards and brochures to specialized jobs. PrintinPoland.com offers many benefits both for international print buyers and Polish printers who get completely new opportunities after joining the European Union. For print buyers using PrintinPoland.com is completely free regardless of number of quotations, frequency or kind of jobs they are interested in. For Polish printers, operating in completely new market conditions after 1st of May 2004, PrintinPoland.com offers new opportunities in finding new customers from Poland and Đ first of all Đ from abroad.