Greiner Packaging has announced the launch of the new coextrusion barrier foil facility at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria. Co-financed by Greiner Packaging, the coextrusion barrier foil facility has been launched as ...
Switzerland-based Permapack has deployed Esko’s WebCenter and Automation Engine to enhance process management in packaging production. Automation Engine is a modular workflow server that automates all projects and processes in ...
Tags: Automation Engine, business system
The sticker collection launch will be backed by a heavy-weight marketing campaign, including covermount sampling with the My Little Pony Magazine. Collectables company Panini has teamed with global toy maker Hasbro for the launch of a new ...
Tags: Hasbro, Panini, Pony stickers
North Star Packaging and Print announced the installation of a new Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102 6 + LX UV press. The state of-the art 6-color plus coating tower model features Prinect Image Control, Heidelberg's most advanced imaging ...
Rochling Group is investing €35m in its Neuhaus am Rennweg plant, creating 70 new jobs. This will enable a significant expansion in the production capacities of Rochling-HPT Hochwertige Pharmatechnik GmbH & Co. KG, giving a ...
Tags: diagnostic industry, GMP class, C clean room
Healthcare packaging company Nelipak has acquired Sonoco Products Company subsidiary Tegrant Alloyd Brands of Puerto Rico (TABPR). The acquired business operates under the name of Nelipak Healthcare Packaging. TABPR provides ...
A new farmhouse brewery in Belgium has chosen one of Beatson Clark’s standard 330ml bottles to launch its new range. The Humblet family began restoring Bertinchamps farm in 2011 and launched the first range of beers from their new ...
Tags: Bertinchamps farm, beer
Russian firm Kazanskiy Zavod Sovremennoy Upakovki (KZSU) has launched new plant for the production of AD*STAR block bottom sacks. Located in the Himgrad technology zone in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, the plant has capacity to produce ...
Tags: KZSU, polypropylene, plastics recycling line
The US Senate has approved a bill, which mandates nationwide labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO). The bipartisan bill, which mandates GMO labeling contents with words, pictures or a bar code on the ...
Tags: GMO, food system
A new interactive programme, Mission to Space is an online summer activity pack that encourages youngsters to explore space through a series of online building challenges. LEGO is marking a new chapter in its ongoing relationship with ...
Tags: LEGO, NASA, building challenge
Plastic packaging firm RPC has developed a new thermoformed twist cup for Orkla Foods Norway’s Denja range. RPC Superfos and RPC Promens have worked with Orkla to develop a thermoformed twist cup with an injection moulded screw ...
Packaging Corporation of America has signed an agreement to acquire independent corrugated products producer TimBar for $386m. As per the terms of the deal, PCA will acquire TimBar's five corrugated products plants, two fulfillment ...
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On July 6, SAIC released the production and sales report of June. According to the report, in June SAIC rolled off all kinds of vehicles 432 thousand and 5 hundred, up by 1.48% year on year; and the company delivered 454 thousand and 8 ...
Tags: heavy trucks, trucks
3D-Micromac AG of Chemnitz, Germany (which supplies laser micromachining systems and roll-to-roll laser systems for the photovoltaic, medical device and electronics markets) says that its microDICE laser micromachining system has been ...
Tags: High-Power Diodes, power device
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
Tags: semiconductors, Electronics