Specialty chemicals producer Clariant has signed a purchase agreement with VitaPac, the Chinese specialist for healthcare packaging, for an undisclosed amount. VitaPac produces innovative, technology-driven product lines that ensure ...
The new agreement will see Kern offering the Italian firm’s complete range of film packaging machines, and shrink tunnels. Preferred Packaging manufactures a wide range of machinery including L-sealers, side sealers, sleeve ...
Delta Food Industries (FZC) will expand its factories over an area of 110,000ft2 at the Sharjah Airport International Free Zone (Saif Zone), UAE, with an investment of AED40m($10.88m). The UAE-based food company aims to develop ...
Canada-based Cascades has introduced a new alternative to polycoated packaging known as 'Respak' for the food and food services industries. The recyclable and compostable Respak has been made by using 50% recycled fibres and is said to ...
The Australian food, beverage and grocery manufacturing industry has an annual turnover of approximately $111 billion, directly employs almost 300,000 people, with half of those in rural and regional areas, and generates $24 billion in ...
Tags: food, food packaging, Packaging
According to Statistics Canada, Canadian manufacturing sales edged up 0.4 percent to $50.9 billion in March, the sixth advance in seven months. The rise mostly reflected higher sales in the food, machinery, and plastics and rubber products ...
Swedish-Danish cooperative Arla Foods has agreed to sell its packaging subsidiary Danapak Flexibles to Austian-based Schur Flexibles Group. The transaction, which is expected to be completed in July 2014, is subject to approval by the ...
Tags: Packaging Subsidiary, Arla
Germany-based filling and packaging equipment manufacturer KHS has launched its new Innopouch K-400 pouching machine for the food and non-food industries. The new product is available as an FS (fill and seal) or an FFS (form, fill and ...
Tags: Pouching Machine, Food Industries, Non-Food Industries
Flexibility, precision and ease of operation are already well on their way from exception to rule in packaging equipment of the calibre KHS offers. So the company has upgraded the criteria Its new Innopouch K-400 pouching machine for the ...
US-based Universal Corporation will establish a new subsidiary, Carolina Innovative Food Ingredients, marking its foray into fruit and vegetable food ingredients market. The new unit will engage in the development of food grade dehydrated ...
Hazard analysis and critical control points or HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and designs ...
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"This year, only a handful of companies have managed to stand out from the crowd. These are the nominees and the winner of the award. The Hermes Award stands for what's essentially the core purpose of the Hannover Messe: to set trends for ...
Australian food manufacturer Patties Foods, which produces the iconic Four N' Twenty pie, has announced the appointment of Mr Steven Chaur as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, commencing on 15 April 2014. Patties Foods said ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Eurofins Scientific has bought food and environmental testing laboratory from Maintpartner Group, an industrial maintenance and operation services provider in the Baltic Sea region. Located in the Kokkola Industrial Zone, the laboratory ...
A considerable paradox exists in U.S. food policy. Although the federal government has named food safety as a top priority, an entire pocket of the food industry remains largely unregulated by, or at least largely under the radar of, most ...
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