Coca-Cola has won the Technology in Beverage Packaging prize at the 2014 ABRE awards for using Tetra Pak’s cartons with bio-based low-density polyethylene (LDPE) films derived from sugarcane. Coca-Cola's Del Valle Reserva brand of ...
Dean Naylor, plant manager of Graphic Packaging in Leeds, said the makeready and running speed, colour quality and overall production control were all factors in the decision to buy the Speedmaster XL145-6+LX. Logistics material handling ...
The global food processing and packaging company said producers in both developed and emerging dairy markets need to address the careful balancing act required to ensure sustainable business success. Tetra Pak's Dairy Index reveals that ...
Tags: dairy products, food
According to Visiongain, a British market research firm, the global flexible packaging market has reached some US$143.83 billion, mostly driven by growing sales of consumer products in emerging nations. In the next decade, the firm ...
While this decline was spread across all three market sectors — light metal packaging, steel drums and similar containers, and other containers (of a capacity exceeding 300 litres — it was most substantial in the light metal ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Falling Demand
Paper and board packaging is the most widely used packaging material in the UK. It has been growing year-on-year since 2009 and in 2013 increased by 1.8% in 2013. Its forecast is healthy too – a growth of 6.3% is expected over the ...
Plastic packaging company Takween Advanced Industries has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Saudi’s Savola Group to acquire its plastics and packaging business for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, Takween ...
Tags: Takween, packaging business, Packaging
When the UK government's plans to introduce aversion packaging on cigarettes began its fight with Big Tobacco at the beginning of June, a battle broke out in Australia too. It took two weeks for the Australian government to quash it. By ...
Consolidated Container (CCC), an investment arm of Bain Capital in the plastic packaging sector, has acquired plastic recycling companies Envision Plastics and Ecoplast from their founders Massoud Rad and Parham Yedidsion. Both the ...
Tags: Consolidated Container, Ecoplast
The main types of the protective coatings are and will remain in the long term zinc and zinc-based alloys having anode protection, as well as a variety of paints and coatings, Russia's Metal Supply and Sales magazine has reported. In ...
The organisation, representing the aluminium packaging producers, reprocessors, foil converters, can makers, fillers and brand owners in the UK, is confident of reaching a 46% aluminium packaging recycling target. However, despite ...
Tags: Aluminium Packaging, Printing, Packaging
28 Jan 2014 When you reach that lofty place where you can begin your profile with, “Ardagh group is a global leader in packaging solutions,” you can continue along one of two roads. Road one is straight. It’s for ...
Tags: RinGo, MPMA, Ardagh Group, Nemo
Further to Josh Brooks’ comments in The Answer To The Litter Problem Is Simple: Stop Littering (Packaging News, Monday, January 20) we at LINPAC Packaging would like to add our own views on the issues surrounding litter and the ...
According to the Union Minister for State for Commerce and Industry E M Sudarsana Natchiappan, the global turnover of packaging is about $550bn . "The annual growth rate of this sector is about 15 per cent per annum and it is expected ...
KBA's majority takeover of Kammann Maschinenbau in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, sees the firm enter the directly decorating luxury glass packaging sector. Along with screen-printing systems, Kammann's flexible transport systems can also be ...
Tags: KBA, Packaging Market