According to the report, a “senior Whitehall source” said that the government is convinced that branding is a key factor in why young people start to smoke. The source added that the legislation will follow Australia’s new ...
Tags: tobacco packs, plain packaging, packaging
New Zealand Government has decided to bring in legislation and follow Australia's lead in compelling cigarette manufacturers to sell their products in plain packaging. As part of the move, all cigarette packs and tobacco pouches will ...
Profit after tax and before significant items was up 5.7% to $322m for the six months up to 31 December 2012. Amcor managing director and chief executive Ken MacKenzie said: “The first half result represented a record underlying ...
Tags: Tobacco Packaging, Specialty Folding Carton Operations
Australian packaging company Amcor has announced its agreement to acquire select printing assets of AGI-Shorewood’s (ASG) Tobacco Packaging and Specialty Folding Carton Operations for $115m. The acquired business has plants or ...
Global BOPP and cellulose films producer Innovia Films has signed an agreement with 50/50 joint venture partner Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to buy its 50% share in note-printing subsidiary, Securency International for $67m. According ...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has commenced legal proceedings against the Australian government over the country's world-first plan to exclude all marketing text and images from cigarette packs. The company said it started the proceedings ...
In a two-part series made exclusively by Watch Me Think, consumers in Australia and the UK share their views on what tobacco packaging, and the arrival of ‘plain’ packaging, means to them. The issue has caused controversy not ...
Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) in partnership with the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) will introduce health warning labels on outer packaging of tobacco products effective March 2013. Under the new measure, which is part ...
Tags: Health Warning Labels, Tobacco Packaging, packaging of tobacco
The Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association (TMA) said that plain tobacco packaging would hurt UK business. Terming plans to launch plain tobacco packs in Britain an "assault on UK business," TMA said it would only help drive up the ...
Flint Group in Luxembourg has announced that Amcor is using the company’s nyloprint WSA 52 Digital photopolymer plates in collaboration with its recently installed 1-TBR Compact sheet-fed gravure press. Australia-based Amcor ...
Tags: Packaging Plant, Digital photopolymer plates, production of packaging
Amcor Tobacco Packaging is set to install a new 19-Unit KBA Offset Press at its Innovation Centre in Rickenbach, Switzerland. The press, expected to be delivered later in 2012 has been specifically developed to produce packaging products ...
A new regulation compelling tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets has come into effect in Australia. Under the law, all cigarette packs will now have to be sold in identical, olive-brown packs with the same typeface and covered ...
Tags: plain packets, cigarette packs, smoking, packs
Investment firm Centre Lane Partners said it had acquired Oracle Flexible Packaging (Oracle Packaging), a company that will be combined with Centre Lane’s existing portfolio company, LLFlex North Carolina-based Oracle Packaging is a ...
Tags: Oracle Packaging, Oracle Flexible Packaging, Packaging
UK-based flexographic printer and laminating company Parkside has announced plans to invest in a 100% secure waste management system provided by its partners Roydon Group. A shredding and compacting system has been installed and ...
Tags: Waste Management System, tobacco packaging, investment
Australia will be the first country in the world to sell its cigarettes in plain packs starting from tomorrow The Australian government overcame legal challenges from the tobacco industry to implement the change. Under new laws which ...
Tags: cigarettes, plain packs, Australia, tobacco industry