The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has announced that it has initiated countervailing duty investigations regarding galvanized steel and aluminum zinc coated steel imports from China. The investigation has started upon ...
Tags: galvanized steel, and aluminum zinc coated steel, BlueScope
The glass and metal packaging manufacturer has launched RinGo, which is claimed to be 20% lighter that the standard pack. In addition, Ardagh said that the user can drain the whole content. A necked in top, as opposed to the straight wall ...
Tags: Metal Can, glass packaging, metal packaging, standard pack
Elmwood was tasked with creating an emotional connection with consumers and the new packs include the strapline ‘At the heart of your home’. In addition, the packaging incorporates the “sensory moments we all savour such ...
Speaking at the Pro2Pac exhibition, Mintel International innovations and insight director David Jago told Packaging News: “Sustainability as an issue has not gone away and if you look at the tracking data that we have got, consumers ...
Tags: Pro2Pac, Packaging News, tracking data, sustainability
Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/30/2012 7:06:00 AM By Candace Choi, Associated Press Ducking into a dollar store to pick up some a soda and bag of cookies might save you time and effort, but will you ...
Tags: package, packaging, Dollar General Corp, family life
London copper rose near a one month high early after lenders secured an aid deal for Greece boosting the euro and building on confidence about global demand for the metal sparked by signs of an economic revival in top consumer China. ...
Tags: copper, copper price, IMF, Greek Debt Deal
Gulf News reported that the recently issued World Oil Outlook report by OPEC comes at a time when the oil refining industry is passing through many changes around the world. While the refinery distillation capacity is stagnant in the US, ...
Tags: OPEC, oil refining industry, refinery
According to the government's climate change adviser, Australia is underusing its renewable energy sources with rooftop solar photovoltaic and wind having the potential to become the cheapest form of power for retail users by 2030 or ...
Tags: renewable energy sources, The Climate Commission, power generation
Reuters reported that London copper edged down after rising for two weeks in a row although signs of economic recovery in top consumer China and hopes for Greece to avert an imminent bankruptcy kept a floor under prices. Copper prices ...
PTI quoted a CII survey saying that a majority of units in the manufacturing sector are expected to register low to negative growth in the October to December quarter of this year, mainly due to high interest rates and increasing prices. ...
Tags: CII survey, CII Ascon, manufacturing sector
The federal government insists the GST does not apply to its carbon tax, warning action would be taken against businesses that claimed otherwise. However, air-conditioning firms, data contractors and waste firms have begun applying the ...
Tags: GST carbon tax, warning action, GST
Major issues still need to be addressed, but presuming the United States gets its fiscal house in some semblance of order, the U.S. economy could be in a transition from sluggish growth to a longer period of moderate growth, according to a ...
Tags: MAPI, GDP growth, Manufacturing production
The West Australian cited Mr Chris Ellison MD of Mineral Resources as saying that the company plans a spin out of its iron ore assets within the next 2 years. According to the company, over the past 3 years MinRes has quietly built a ...
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The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity for the $628 billion equipment finance sector, showed overall new business volume for October was $7.6 ...
Tags: Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, ELFA, finance sector