Global demand for plastic cups and lids will increase 5.9% per annum, outstripping overall market growth of 5%, according to a new report. While the market for all cups and lids will grow 5% to £17.2bn in 2017, the market for ...
Tags: Plastic Cups, Plastic Lids
Belgium-based trade body Plastics Recyclers Europe has called for a joint initiative to establish a separate recycling stream for thermoformed PET trays. According to Plastics Recyclers Europe, PET trays are valuable recyclable products ...
Tags: Plastics Recyclers, Packaging, Printing
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,25 commodities increased in prices, 17 fell and 58 remained unchanged on 18/07/2013.The largest rises were Chloroform (5.04%),Natural rubber (1.45%),PA (0.87%),while the ...
Tags: Price Chart, Spot Commodities
Coca-Cola's bottling franchise Nairobi Bottlers has unveiled a new KES1.2bn ($14m) preform manufacturing plant at Kangundo Road in Kenya. Aimed at addressing the increasing demand for plastic bottled products, the facility will take the ...
Flexible packaging supplier Tyler Packaging has launched its new re-sealable sliders, which are claimed to be suitable for almost any convenience packaging need. According to the company, the packaging comes with a Slide-Rite feature that ...
Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
July contract prices for US polyethylene terephthalate are likely to fall, a producer sources said Wednesday, predicting that lower feedstock prices could lead to a 1 cent/lb drop from June levels. US PET June contracts were assessed at ...
Tags: Feedstocks, Pet Contract Prices
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,25 commodities increased in prices, 17 fell and 58 remained unchanged on 18/07/2013.The largest rises were Chloroform (5.04%),Natural rubber (1.45%),PA (0.87%),while the ...
Tags: Price Chart, Spot Commodities
Air France-KLM will further cut tonnes from its annual aircraft carbon dioxide emissions, simply by using revolutionary new lightweight cargo nets that it is now introducing. Just one new lightweight net with Dyneema? will save Air ...
Tags: Gas, Transportation
Omni mini XP is an ultra-lightweight, one-piece and linerless 28-mm closure, compatible with the 1881 bottle finish. Weighing less than 2 grams, this closure offers high-quality capping application performance, CO2 retention, impact ...
How do you use packaging to communicate your sustainable strategy to customers? Come and find out. On July 17, 2013, Jim Hanna, director, environmental impact, Starbucks Coffee Co., will speak at the Packaging Digest Global Food & ...
Tags: Packaging, Sustainability, Gateway
Global packaging solutions provider Serac has developed a new blow molding-filling-capping line which is specifically designed for dairy bottles production below 12,000 bottles per hour. According to the company, the new solution opens ...
The high speed Matrix has three sizes of blowing station which can produce different bottle shapes, in sizes ranging from 0.1 litres to 3.5 litres and its savings on compressed air consumption can reach up to 35% compared with previous ...
Hand and stick vacuums are small, lightweight picker-uppers meant for spilled cereal, dirty car interiors, and other messes too small to require lugging out the heavy equipment. They're also designed for quick surface pickup rather than the ...
Tags: Stick Vacuums, Light-Duty Cleaning
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,15 commodities increased in prices, 34 fell and 51 remained unchanged on 10/07/2013.The largest rises were Dysprosium oxide (7.14%),Soybean meal (1.85%),DME(0.88%),while ...
Tags: Spot Commodities, Chemicals