The UK’s top packaging event – Packaging Innovations (Inc. Ecopack and Contract Pack), Label&Print and Empack 2017 – returns to NEC, Birmingham on 1 & 2 March, with an impressive five shows under one roof, over 350 ...
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Aimplas, the Plastics Technology Center, is attending from 19-26 October a new edition of the K Trade Fair to launch its recent innovations in the field of advanced materials, as well as its latest developments on bioplastics. This time, ...
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Sun Chemical has opened a $30nm production centre in Aliaga, Izmir in Turkey to serve the growing demand for solvent-based flexible packaging solutions. The 50,000sqm site employs over 90 staff and is dedicated to the production of ...
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India-based flexible packaging solutions provider Creative Polypack has purchased Comexi F2 MB flexographic press. Comexi, along with Reifenhauser India, has signed an agreement with Creative Polypack for the press at Drupa 2016. ...
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Scodix, a provider of enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, has launched Scodix E106 enhancement press for the folding carton market. Making its debut at drupa 2016, the Scodix E106 is a digital press delivering enhancement ...
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Private equity firm Quad-C Management has invested undisclosed sum in rigid container and life sciences packaging distributor Inmark Packaging. Under the terms of the deal, which is structured as an owner-operator recapitalization, ...
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Some polymer traders in China are re-exporting their spot imported LDPE and LLDPE cargoes in a bid to clear inventory in the face of weak domestic demand, sources said Wednesday. This is an unusual practice because China usually absorbs ...
Green packaging maker Cascades is to invest in the expansion of two of its packaging plants in Quebec, Canada. The company plans to invest around $4.5m in its Plastiques Cascades plant in Kingsey Falls and its Cascades Inopak plant in ...
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Nicklin Transit Packaging is investing in personnel and production capacity after a sustained period of record sales and customer growth. Birmingham based Nicklin Transit Packaging, which specialises in corrugated and timber packaging ...
The Wilkins Group is investing over $3m into a brand new state of the art factory on the island of Sri Lanka. The Wilkins Group bought the land overseas back in 2013, and work began on the two-acre site at the back end of last year, with ...
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Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, has announced that its healthcare packaging manufacturing facility in Belen, New Mexico, has achieved ISO 15378:2011 certification for products manufactured for healthcare applications, including ...
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The printing industry is changing tracks: These days, more and more specialist firms are switching from the traditional analog approach to digital printing procedures, preferring in particular the use of inkjet printers that increasingly ...
Researchers at agricultural firm Agrindus in Brazil have discovered that the shelf-life of milk can be extended up to 15 days, by embedding silver nanoparticles in plastic bottles. The shelf life of grade A pasteurised fresh whole milk ...
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UK-based SPTS Technologies has sold its Thermal Products operations to Sumitomo Precision Products’ arm SPP Technologies, in a deal worth $28m. SPP is engaged in the production of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and ...
Tags: SPTS technologies, thermal products, MEMS, LED
Plastic packaging giant RPC Group is surging ahead with more acquisitions to boost growth. Speaking at a media event in central London this week, chief executive Pim Vervaat said that the company was becoming a leader in plastic products ...
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