Current innovations

In an interview, Dr. Ulli Nägele, Head of Development and Application Technology at HERMA GmbH, explains what labels can do to reduce the use of packaging materials and promote progressive…

• Thousands of tons of liner material and costly waste disposal can be avoided every year by the new HERMA InNo-Liner system.

• Among the linerless systems known to HERMA, this is the first…

• A combined cooling, heat and power plant is one of the measures that will significantly reduce the new self-adhesive material coating plant’s energy demand.

• Power and heat savings are…

• Equal proportions of the recycled polyethylene originate from industrial and household waste.

• The labels offer very good printability no matter what the technique, from flexo and offset…

• If required, HERMA’s new adhesive 42X makes even non-standard label materials easily removable without any residue, giving users maximum flexibility.

• Thanks to small minimum coating…

• In the interests of largely self-organising production, HERMA has fully automated communication within manufacturing.

• Fourteen production lines now communicate with each other and the…

• Two expert panels from the German Packaging Institute DVI visited HERMA to learn how labels can help optimise the environmental balance of packaging materials.

• Participants got an…

• Paul Eggbeer has been promoted to Divisional Director of the self-adhesive materials specialist’s UK subsidiary.

• Long-standing HERMA UK Director, Colin Phillips has left the company…

• Last year, HERMA avoided around 406 metric tons of CO2 emissions thanks to a special recycling programme for discarded siliconized release liner.

• This averts considerable quantities of…