Specialist Packaging Technologies will focus on customised pre-made pouches. Target markets include consumer product goods, retail food and beverage, personal care, pet products, and medical applications. The division will be headed up by ...
Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives,according to Penn State and University of Florida researchers.The team also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone(NMP)—an ...
Tags: Pesticides, Crop Pesticides, kill insects
US-based Menasha Packaging, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, has expanded its Folding Carton Group facility located at Neenah in Wisconsin. The expansion project was carried out to add 26,500ft2 to the initial 109,000ft2 facility, and ...
Tags: Menasha Packaging, Packaging
The Indiana-based group is to buy a 75% stake in Qingdao P&B Co, which is headquartered in the Qingdao free-trade zone. P&B, which has around 550 employees, is partly owned by Chinese drinks business Wuliangye Group, one of the ...
Tags: Plastics Buy-out, P&B
Spectrum Brands, the publicly traded American parent company of Spectrum Brands Australia, owner of the Russell Hobbs, George Foreman, Black & Decker and Remington brands, among others, has announced a strong profit turnaround for the first ...
Tags: small appliance
Responding to the strength of the markets it serves, Evonik Corporation said that it will expand its specialty methacrylate monomer facility in Mobile, Ala. The methyl methacrylate transesterification (MMAT) plant, within Evonik's ...
US-based Berry Plastics has received permit from the competent approval authority in China to acquire controlling interest of Qingdao P&B. The pending registration, associated with the transaction, with the local company registry would be ...
Tags: Berry Plastics, Packaging
Spectra Packaging have recently produced stylish new packs for Sophie la Girafe Cosmetics, Alva Organics range of natural products. Spectra worked with the Helsinki based skincare and personal care brand on their range of natural hair and ...
The deal is worth $71m including the settlement of financial debt. Closing is scheduled during the first quarter of 2014 subject to standard completion conditions. Sancoa supplies throughout North America from its three plants located in ...
Tags: Sancoa, TubeDec, CCL Industry, transaction
UK-based Spectra Packaging has created new packaging for Helsinki based skincare and personal care brand Sophie la Girafe Cosmetics' Alva Organics range of natural products. Designed in collaboration with the cosmetic firm, the natural ...
Despite tough economic conditions, revenues for the world's 250 largest retailers reached $4.3 trillion in the last fiscal year (June 2012 through June 2013). The average size of the top 250 retailers exceeded $17 billion according to the ...
Tags: Retail Economy, Service
Wellman International Limited, a subsidiary of Indorama Ventures PLC, is pleased to announce the granting of the Allergy UK ‘Seal of Approval’ Accreditation at the Heimtextil Exhibition. The securing of this accreditation ...
Tags: Smart Fibres, Textile
Specialty flexible packaging services provider Interflex Group has acquired Star Packaging from the US-based Azalea Capital. Azalea noted that the diverse product mix serves the pet food and treat, fresh produce, food and beverage, snack, ...
Severe winter weather did not dampen December retail sales as shoppers took advantage of heavy promotions and last-minute deals. According to the National Retail Federation – the world’s largest retail trade association ...
Tags: Holiday Retail, Jack Kleinhenz, NRF, more-confident consumer
Global packaging company ASG (AGI Shorewood) plans to expand its East Flat Rock plant in Henderson County, North Carolina. The expansion, which is expected to add about 50 jobs, will include positions in the facility's pressroom, ...
Tags: AGI Shorewood, Flat Rock Facility