President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has commissioned Kasapreko's new beverage bottling plant in a bid to meet demands in domestic and international beverage markets. Alcoholic drinks producer Kasapreko's new facility is valued at ...
Switzerland-based manufacturers of injection molding machinery and system solutions, Netstal, will be launching its new PET-LINE 5000 in the US market at NPE. The equipment has been designed for markets with high output and for molds ...
Tags: Switzerland-based manufacturers, technology, Packaging
French investment firm Wendel has acquired the US-based plastics packaging company, CSP Technologies, for $360m. The Wendel Group has invested $198m for a 98% ownership in CSP, which is based in Auburn, Alabama. CSP, which has ...
A report from the nonprofit organisation, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reveals that while there is a rise in the use of plastic packaging across the US market to meet the needs of fast food and consumer ...
Tags: plastic PET bottles, Agriculture
Vidrala, through its subsidiary Inverbeira Sociedad de Promoción de Empresas, has completed acquisition of Encirc, an Irish manufacturer of glass containers for the food and beverage industries, for €408.6m. Encirc ...
New York-based investment company Gramercy Property Trust has acquired Alpha Packaging’s 211,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Overland, Missouri, for $11m. The property in the St. Louis County, which serves as ...
Tags: food, beverage, pharmaceutical industries, Agriculture
Liqui-Box, a world leader in flexible liquid packaging solutions celebrated the grand opening of their new facility in Taizhou, China with a public opening ceremony. The ceremony marks the grand opening of the Liqui-Box site that will ...
The latest report by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) has revealed that the US recorded a recycling rate of 31.2% for PET bottles last year. This ...
Tags: Pet Bottles, Bottles Packaging
Packaging company C-P flexible packaging has acquired MRI flexible packaging to expand its production capacity for an undisclosed amount. MRI flexible is considered to be one of the largest suppliers of polyethylene stretch sleeves in the ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, flexible packaging
Lotte Liqor’s first beer, Kloud, burst onto the market with aplomb. “We expect to bring a change in the history of Korea’s beer industry, often reputed as ‘boring,’ with this kind of real beer,” the ...
Tags: Beer Market, Krones, Packaging
Graphic Packaging’s European subsidiary has completed the previously announced acquisition of the UK-based food and healthcare packaging company Benson Group, for about $165m. Announced in February, the acquisition is claimed to ...
Tags: Graphic Packaging, packaging
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Graphic Packaging is one of the largest producers of folding cartons, specialising in coated-unbleached kraft, coated-recycled boxboard multi-wall bag and specialty packaging, and the acquisition has ...
Tags: Graphic Packaging, Benson Group
Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, announced it has acquired Filter Specialists Inc. (FSI), a worldwide supplier of filtration products and solutions based in Michigan City, Indiana. ...
Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company reported final, audited, results for 2013. These results confirm the preliminary, unaudited results DSM published on 21 January 2014. DSM also issues its Integrated Annual Report, ...
Tags: Life Sciences, Materials Sciences
Ingredients firm Wild Flavors has extended its processing capabilities through the acquisition of Alfrebro, a natural extracts and aroma chemicals maker in Ohio, for an undisclosed amount. The deal allows Wild to further develop its ...
Tags: Wild Flavors, Ingredients Firm, Alfrebro