Spanish firm Saica Group has agreed to acquire Irish-owned Americk Packaging Group of companies. Americk produces labels and cartons, as well as environmental and flexible packaging solutions. The company manufactures reel-fed, ...
Swedish firm AR Packaging Group has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Indonesian paper packaging firm PT Maju Jaya Sarana Grafika (MJSG) for undisclosed amount. Maju Jaya provides services from design, prepress, ...
Tags: AR Packaging, Packaging
VPK Packaging has commissioned a new Mitsubishi EVOL flexo folder gluer started at Rigid’s corrugating plant in Selby. The new converting machine further increases site productivity and capacity of what is probably already the most ...
Makers of vertical form/fill/seal machines have offered automatic set-up functionality for mechanical axes of motion for some time now. So when changeover to a new bag size requires an adjustment of the vacuum belts that pull the flexible ...
Tags: mechanical axes, Mike Krummey, continuous-motion machine
Specialized Packaging Group (SPG), a North American engineering and protective packaging firm with over 1,000 employees across 16 plants, announced that President and CEO Paul Gaulin has repurchased Investissement Québec's stake in ...
Tags: SPG, packaging systems, Investissement
Plastic packaging material manufacturer Astrapak, through its company Consupaq, has introduced new tubing product, Econo, for its customers in the cosmetic market. Developed in sizes such as 15ml, 25ml 50ml, 75ml, 100ml, 125ml and 150ml, ...
Tags: Astrapak, cosmetic market, Consupaq
International press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer (KBA) has agreed to supply its Rapida 145 sheetfed offset press o France based A&R Carton. Showcased by KBA at Drupa 2016 held in Germany, the Rapida 145 press features six printing units, ...
Tags: KBA, A&R Carton
Michelman will introduce two new offline applied primers formulated primarily for use by HP Indigo WS6X00 series and the new HP Indigo 8000 digital press owners at drupa 2016. The experimental primers are formulated for flexible packaging ...
Tags: Michelman, Flexible Packaging
AR Packaging Group and Egem Ambalaj Sanayi ve Ticaret have signed a strategic partnership agreement. The objective of this agreement is to establish a cooperation in the manufacture, purchasing, sale and marketing in Turkey of packaging ...
Tags: AR Packaging, Egem Ambalaj, Partnership
rlc | packaging group has designed new chocolate boxes for Switzerland-based Cailler. The company recently started production of eight new chocolate boxes for the Swiss chocolate brand, which is part of the Nestlé portfolio. The ...
Tags: Rlc Packaging, New Chocolate Boxes, Cailler
Employee-owned Packaging Group, Kite Packaging, has been named by London Stock Exchange Group as one of the top ‘1000 companies to inspire Britain in 2016’. 2016 heralds the 3rd edition of London Stock Exchange Groups’ ...
Sonoco renames all facilities of the former Weidenhammer Packaging Group (WPG). As of January 1st 2016, former Weidenhammer plants and branches will operate under the name Sonoco Consumer Products Europe. This step completes the ...
Tags: Sonoco, composite cans, plastics packaging
In a bid to strengthen its position in the Southeast Asia labels market, Constantia Flexibles Group has acquired Australian packaging company Pemara Labels Group. The parties agreed not to disclose any financial details and the transaction ...
SML Group, a global apparel branding and packaging group of companies serving international clients consisting of top fashion brands and some of the largest retailers in the world, has announced that F&F Clothing, one of the world's largest ...
Tags: RFID Labels, Clothing
Imec of Leuven, Belgium and its partners have completed a three-year program (2012-2015) to leverage a variety of silicon photonics technologies by making them accessible for industry and academia worldwide. Within the ESSenTIAL program ...
Tags: Silicon photonics, ESSenTIAL program, electrical equipment