Rigid packaging specialist Berlin Packaging has acquired Diablo Valley Packaging, a move that bolsters the company's glass packaging supply chain to better serve the food, beverage, and wine & spirits markets. The deal comes on the heels ...
Tags: Rigid packaging, Packaging
Coffee and tea capsules manufacturer Dualit has introduced new capsules that are claimed to protect and preserve the taste and freshness of coffee. The new patented, airtight and sealed coffee capsules have been designed in response to ...
Tags: Coffee Capsules, tea capsules
Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, is presenting its customized humidity control solutions in pharma packaging at pharmaceutical networking event, CPhI Worldwide 2015. Standard desiccant products, which Clariant also supplies, ...
Tags: pharma packaging, desiccant products, Healthcare Packaging
BASF is presenting numerous new solutions for the packaging and furniture industry, automotive and electrical engineering at this year’s Fakuma, the international trade fair for plastics processing, in Friedrichshafen. From October ...
Tags: BASF, Plastics, polyurethanes
Complete Core Business Solutions has launched a new division that will offer contract packing and filling services to the £21.5bn food and drink sector in the UK. The new business, Complete Co-packing Services, will fill, pack, ...
Tags: packing and filling services, Co-packing, non-EU market
Canadian firm Balzac's Coffee Roasters has selected Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee’s RealCup recyclable plastic cups to launch its single serve beverage products. RealCup's EcoCup recyclable capsules will enable Balzac to launch two of ...
Tags: Coffee Roasters, plastic cups
Home appliances major Whirlpool and brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev have joined hands and started selling single serve capsule-based drink machines for soda, juice and coffee in Brazil. Setting in motion their joint venture valued at more ...
Tags: Whirlpool, AB InBev, Drink Machine
Catalent Pharma Solutions, a US-based provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products, has acquired Australian pharmaceutical packaging business, Pharmapak Technologies, ...
Tags: delivery technologies, Pacific, Packaging
Nestlé Spain plans to invest €102m on a new energy efficient line for Nescafé soluble coffee at its Girona facility in order to improve production capacity by 30%. The investment will be made between 2015 and 2017. ...
Philippines-based food, beverage and packaging company San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has acquired Australia’s Vinocor for an undisclosed amount. Vinocor specialises in supplying wine bottle closures and customised bottles in ...
Tags: Wine Packaging, beverage packaging
The high-performance machine doses powders, pellet, tablets and liquids, as well as combinations, and can achieve output of up to 2,600 capsules per minute. “The newly developed GKF 2600 combines proven and new technologies at ...
More and more, people are understanding that the planet needs everyone to manage drink packaging responsibly. Sustainability is a major trend identified by both TechNavio in "Global Beverage Packaging Market 2015-2019" [December 2014] and ...
Tags: Pepsico, drink packaging
Fish oil capsules and supplements fail on Omega-3 claims and freshness, University research study Most fish oil supplements sold in Australia and New Zealand are lower in omega-3 fatty acids than their labels claim, according to new ...
Tags: Fish Oil, Omega-3 Claims, Freshness, Agriculture
Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
Tags: self-reporting, lab tests, Health
A new customized, integrated flexo printing solution has been introduced by Denmark-based flexo technology provider TRESU for the detergent industry which will help it to comply with a new European safety directive. The new safety ...
Tags: control system, space-saving printing module, Agriculture