Equipment maker Butler Automatic has launched SP3HSL Series Automatic Film Splicer for line efficiency in consumer packaged goods and pharmaceutical shrink sleeve packaging operations. The new automatic web splicing system for printed ...
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AR Packaging will invest €3m in the newly acquired plants at Krakow in Poland and Graz in Austria. With the investment at the two facilities, the German company is expecting to strengthen its foothold in the European packaging ...
Abdullah Abbar & Sons Cold Stores is planning to build a new logistics plant for food products at King Abdullah Economic City's (KAEC) Industrial Valley-phase 3 An agreement to this effect was signed between the two parties. The ...
FrieslandCampina Cheese is planning to cease operations at its Den Hollander Food cheese packaging plant in Lochem, Netherlands, a move that will impact 139 jobs. This is in line with the company's strategy to cut costs to improve its ...
Australia’s packaging company Amcor will be acquiring the internal tobacco packaging operations of Souza Cruz in Brazil for $30m (BRL96m). Majority-owned by British American Tobacco, Souza Cruz is considered to be one of the ...
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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 ...
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Agribusiness company Cargill is planning to relocate its meat slicing and packaging operations from its plant in Springfield, Missouri, to its facilities at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and Waco, Texas. The move comes after a thorough ...
Command Medical Products, Inc. has doubled cleanroom manufacturing space in its Managua, Nicaragua facility. Construction completed on the additional ISO Class 7 clean room (Class 10,000) and the room was certified operational in November, ...
Two baby and toddler food companies: Beech-Nut is 123 years old, Rafferty’s Garden is 7. Both lead with peak nutrition claims. Beech-Nut makes glass packaging part of this. Rafferty’s Garden uses flexible pouches. Let’s ...
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The composition and surface properties of boards has been changing regularly in the last decade. This can create difficulties for previously trusted adhesives. So H.B. Fuller set itself the task of creating a universal adhesive that would ...
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Amcor's statutory profit for the year ended 30 June 2014 from continuing operations was $737.00 million, a surge in profit of 24.6% over the previous year's result - $589.20 million. Earnings per share (EPS) was boosted by 24.7% to 61.1 ...
UK-based APS Salads has deployed new packaging machinery, the fully electric eclipse SL4 tray sealer, developed by Packaging Automation, for packing tomatoes. The machinery not only addresses the environmental impact of packaging ...
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In the quarter under review, the group reported an improved year-on-year EBITDA margin of 13.9% and an increasingly strong Return on Capital Employed of 13.8% further underlining SKG’s progress on achieving optimal returns through ...
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Euro Foods, a Wales-based food supplier to restaurants and specialist supermarkets, has acquired Brown Bear Food, a food packaging business in Cwmbran, for an undisclosed sum. Brown Bear, which operates from leased premises in Gwent, had ...
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Drink mixes and zero calorie sweeteners producer Heartland Food Products has announced plans to invest $21.2m to expand its operations in Central Indiana. The investment will include renovation and installation of 435,000ft2 of production ...
Tags: Heartland Food, Food, Drinking, Food Packaging