Family-owned dairy business Kyvalley Dairy Group has acquired Murray Goulburn’s Kiewa Country brand along with the processing and packing equipment for an undisclosed sum. The Kyabram-based company purchased the brand and several ...
Tags: packing equipment, milk processing
UK-based bakery products manufacturer Finsbury Food Group is planning to close its Grain D'Or bakery business, putting around 250 jobs at risk. The company said that Grain D'Or has been historically loss making even after implementing ...
Tags: bakery products, bakery
Beverage and lifestyle brand Merican Mule has introduced Moscow Mule in a can, as part of its efforts to reduce the use of copper mug. The new can has been developed for Moscow Mule to decrease the health risks associated with copper mug, ...
Tags: Beverage, Moscow Mule
Lyon Distilling Company of St. Michaels has released its latest concoction – a special, limited batch Black Rum with a percentage of every bottle sold benefitting the projects and programs of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC). ...
Canadian packaging company Intertape Polymer has reported a 4.3% increase in its revenue to $210.2m for the second quarter of 2017, compared to $201m for the same period last year. The company's gross profit fell from 25.7% to 22.5% from ...
Tags: packaging, Intertape Polymer
Luna Innovations Inc of Roanoke, VA, USA (which makes high-speed optoelectronics and fiber-optic test products for the telecoms industry and distributed fiber-optic sensing for the aerospace & defense and automotive industries) has agreed ...
Tags: Optical Receivers, optoelectronics
Swanline Paper and Board (SPB) has introduced two new folding boxboards – PankaLux and PankaBrite – for the luxury packaging and food packaging markets. PankaLux and PankaBrite provide brands and packers with quality solutions ...
Tags: Swanline, Pankabrite Boxboards
Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
American paper and pulp giant International Paper has recorded a net profit of $80m, compared to the $209m the company earnt in the first quarter of this year. Last year, during the same period, the company earned $40m. The earnings ...
Enaris' range of transportation bags have been tested and certified as being compliant at 95 kPa pressure. In a release, the company stated that the 95 kPa transportation bags have been designed to cope with extremes of pressure in ...
Tags: Transportation Bags, Packaging
New York-based meat processor Marathon Enterprises is recalling over 7 million pounds of hot dog products over contamination with extraneous materials, particularly small pieces of bone. According to the US Department of ...
Tags: Hot Dog Products, Contamination
Sacmi is set to showcase its complete Hero range at this year’s Drinktec show in Germany. The event will take place from 11 to 15 September in Munich. At the event, the company will exhibit advanced technological and plant ...
RecoMed, the PVC medical devices take-back scheme, is a joint winner of the Waste Prevention category of the 2017 National Recycling Awards for its innovative approach to sustainable healthcare recycling. It’s yet another accolade - ...
Tags: PVC Recycling, medical devices
Australian horticultural company Costa Group has agreed to acquire Lankester Avocado's orchards and packing operations in Queensland for an undisclosed price. The avocado business owned by the Lankester family cultivates the fruit in a ...
Tags: Costa Group, packing
Kush Bottles has hired a new sales and support team, led by Carmen Lam, to handle the rapidly growing legal cannabis market in Nevada. According to ABC News, recreational marijuana sales have exceeded expectations, with long lines outside ...
Tags: Kush Bottles, Bottles