Crown has produced physical beverage can, which is embedded with Almond blockchain technology, for FACT Water. Crown Bevcan Europe & Middle East, a subsidiary of Crown Holdings, has introduced its CrownConnect technology in conjunction ...
Tags: Beverage Can, Fact Water
European Aluminium has announced that aluminium beverage cans are well above the future EU Circular Economy recycling targets. With an increase of 0.7%, the overall recycling rate of aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani Thursday in Beijing, and they agreed to deepen the bilateral strategic partnership featuring mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and common ...
Tags: Strategic Partnership, bilateral relations, Belt and Road Initiative
Bobst, a Swiss company that provides machinery and services to the packaging industry, will open a new production site and Competence Center in Changzhou, China. The new site, a greenfield facility in Changzhou in the Jiangsu province of ...
OFD Foods, a supplier of freeze-dried food for the US Military, has started construction on a $25m, nearly 50,000ft2 facility in the Town of Henrietta, Monroe County in New York State. The facility, which will be operating by the end of ...
Tags: OFD Foods, dried food
Confectionery giant Mondelēz International has opened a new $90m biscuit manufacturing plant in Bahrain. The new 250,000m2 plant will manufacture the confectionery and snacking firm’s power brands that include Oreo cookies and ...
Redimark, a coding and marking company, has exhibited its TC12 date coder at this year’s PackExpo East show in Philadelphia, US. The event is being held between 16 April and 18 April at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Redimark ...
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Australia’s competition regulator has approved the CAD1.29bn ($1.01bn) acquisition of Murray Goulburn Co-Operative (MG) by Canadian dairy producer Saputo. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said that it will not ...
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National Agricultural Development Company (NADEC) has agreed to acquire 100% of Al Safi Danone (ASD) for an undisclosed price to consolidate its position in Saudi Arabian dairy market. ASD is a joint venture between the Saudi Arabia-based ...
Mercedes-Benz Cars is investing more than €100m in a battery factory in Thailand. With a strategic decision Mercedes-Benz Cars is enhancing the manufacturing footprint in South-East Asia addressing growing demand for electric ...
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French automaker Groupe PSA will build Peugeot and Opel vehicles in Walvis Bay, Namibia, in 2018. Groupe PSA and Namibia Development Corporation (NDC) have signed a joint-venture agreement to start the assembly plant. The vehicle ...
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Wang Jun-xian, the new chairman of Fu Chun Shin Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd. (FCS), the largest plastic injection molding machine maker by output in Taiwan, has shown an ambition to further boost the company's business deployments ...
Tags: Lights, Injection Molding Machine
Bobst Group, a Swiss-based supplier of equipment and services to the packaging and label industries, has reported consolidated sales of CHF1 529m ($1,629m) in 2017, an increase of CHF82m, or 5.7%, compared to 2016. The operating result ...
Tags: packaging, label industries
Mespack is planning to showcase flexible packaging solutions at the Propak East Africa 2018 event scheduled to be held from 27 February to 1 March in Nairobi, Kenya. The company specializing in the design and manufacture of machinery for ...
Tags: flexible packaging, Mespack
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has agreed to acquire 50% stake in the sweeteners and starches business of Russia-based Aston Foods and Food Ingredients. ADM Europe, Middle East and Africa president Pierre Duprat said: “ADM has ...
Tags: Sweeteners, Aston Foods