After several rounds of meeting with the relevant stakeholders, the Supreme Council for Wages (CSS) has fixed the minimum wage for Category C employees, which include those working in the apparel export sector, at 225 gourdes (about US$ ...
hosted by Sidel, took place in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 25 and 26. More than 120 attendees from Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa met to discuss the need for sustainability to assure the future of the bottled beverage industry. ...
The family run business previously operated several letterpress machines before starting their expansion with the purchase of an Edale FL-1 twin stack press for self-adhesive labels and have already seen a huge increase in productivity ...
Tags: Etiq Color, Edale Presses, letterpress, press, packaging, label, flexopress
Octal's high-grade trays replace traditional polypropylene/polyethylene containers, providing a recyclable alternative. William J. Barenberg Jr., chief operating officer at Octal, said: "Until recently, meat and poultry processors widely ...
Tags: Octal, Poultry Packaging Trays, Recyclable Alternative
The institute is offering technical advice on packaging design and materials, testing facilities and food analysis in particular migration. Areas covered include competence in food and packaging and its interaction, testing facilities to ...
Founded in 1932, Zalkin has customers across a range of industries including food, beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and industrial products. The company manufactures screw, push-on, and Roll-on Pilfer Proof (ROPP) capping ...
Tags: Pro Mach, Capping Equipment, Purchase
German industrial output fell for a second consecutive month in October, sending a sign of weak recovery from Europe's largest economy, official data showed on Monday. In calendar and seasonally-adjusted terms, industrial output dropped ...
With the high-tech economy system in Sweden, notes and coins has almost completely eliminated, and Sweden is moving towards into a "Cashless Society". According to the data of the European central bank, only 27% of the total retail sales in ...
Tags: Economy, Service, Cashless Society
The Societe Generale bank said in a report, the per capita GDP in the Euro area would be flat from 2007 to 2007, which means that it will be the Europe's "lost decade". The main reason of European economic growth weakly lies in the fact ...
Although Luxembourg trade volume is not large, but it's ranked first Yuan trade financing countries in Europe. The data from PWC showed that, the total of RMB trade finance in Luxembourg from January 2013 to September was 70.1 billion Yuan, ...
As one of the most serious, but often most misunderstood, retail loss prevention issues, return fraud costs retailers billions of dollars every year. According to NRF's 2013 Return Fraud Survey completed by loss prevention executives at ...
Tags: Apparel, Textile, Holiday Economy
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has reported global sales of 37, 945 vehicles in November 2013, up 5.8%, compared to sales of 35, 864 vehicles during the same period in 2012. In China, the carmaker reported sales of 5,995 ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto, automobile
Boxed beverages, like juice-boxes, have been around since the mid-60s. Children have been drinking juice out of cardboard squares lined with plastic or aluminum for years. This hybrid, multi-layer construction makes recycli ng the ...
Elizabeth Arden selected Airopack as the environmentally friendly, safe, all-plastic, pressurized dispenser that uses 42 percent less energy and emits 74 percent less CO2 than a regular aerosol can to dispense the new Ceramide Self-Foaming ...
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...