Mahindra Automotive North America (MANA) has inaugurated a new North American headquarters and manufacturing facility, the first such new OEM facility in Southeast Michigan in over 25 years. The expansion is part of a $230 million ...
Tags: off-highway vehicle
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is lending its support to the first quantitative study for the reduction of plastic waste in Japan. Dow will provide financial assistance to study the impact of plastic waste and debris on the ...
Packaging origination and graphics management company Contact Originators has invested in Esko XPS Crystal technology for the corrugate business. The firm is claimed to be the first in the UK in corrugated for its investment in Esko XPS ...
Tags: corrugate business, CDI imaging
UK-based Skymark Packaging invested in a Universal X6 laser perforation slitter rewinder to boost its flexible packaging production. The new laser perforation slitter rewinder from Universal Converting Equipment will allow Skymark to ...
Tags: Slitter Rewinder, Packaging
General Motors has launched the automotive industry’s first commerce platform for on-demand reservations and purchases of goods and services. With Marketplace, drivers can now order and pay for their favorite coffee — and much ...
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Researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and experts from industry and academia have developed software tools, which can predict the fiber orientation and length distribution of ...
Belgium-based packaging printer and converter Vitra has invested in Bobst equipment as part of its investment program. The family-owned company has purchased two Bobst 20SIX CI flexo printing presses and a Bobst CL850 laminating machine. ...
Tags: packaging printer, Bobst Equipment
Naturepak Beverage Packaging is installing Heidelberg Intro Web-Printing technology at its manufacturing plant in Casablanca, Morocco. The investment in the Heidelberg Intro Web-Printing-Press machine with 6 front-side Print Units and one ...
Amazon introduced “Frustration-Free Packaging,” an invention designed to reduce waste and delight customers with easy-to-open, 100% recyclable packaging, ten years ago this holiday season. Frustration-Free Packaging ends ...
Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
Tags: LEDs, LED Efficiency
US-based paper and packaging solutions provider WestRock plans to invest $410m at its kraft linerboard mill in Florence, South Carolina, US. The two-year investment plan will see installation of a 330” kraft linerboard machine and ...
Toyo Printing Inks, a Turkey-based inks and coatings manufacturer and a unit of Toyo Ink, is expanding its operations in the country with an investment of $26.7m. As part of this effort, the company purchased a 62,000m² plot of land ...
Tags: Toyo Printing, inks, coatings
Held annually at Sands Expo in Las Vegas, the U.S., AAPEX (Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo) has ended another successful year and unveiled future trends of the continuously growing auto aftermarket and car servicing industries through ...
Tags: AAPEX 2017, Automotive Aftermarket
UPM Raflatac has partnered with Dutch metal packaging and closures supplier, Mus Verpakkingen, to test a biobased film solution for can labeling. The companies tested the new RafBio PE material, which is said to be more sustainable ...
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Harper, a manufacturer of anilox rollers for flexographic printers, has showcased its products at the Labelexpo Europe 2017 event. The firm said it has showcased and delivered briefings on how its programs, services, surface technology, ...
Tags: Harper, flexographic printers