The research comes from Australia, which was the first country to introduce plain packaging. Australia formally introduced plain brown packaging, accompanies by graphic health warnings taking up three-quarters of the front of the pack, for ...
Tags: Plain Packs, Cigarettes
Inspection machines manufacturer Rotocontrol has announced that its local agent in South Africa for Rotocontrol/LeoMat brand of finishing machines, Rotocon, sold two new RSC slitter/rewinders. One machine was sold to a packaging ...
Tags: Rotocontrol Slitter, Rewinders
The LIMAK Cement Group is upgrading its Pinarhisar, Ankara and Balikesir plants in Turkey, and as part of this upgrade is replacing seven ball mills with vertical roller mills. The Group has ordered all seven mills from Gebr. Pfeiffer SE to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
One of Britain's most senior security officials will review a cybersecurity centre operated by Chinese company Huawei after concerns that the telecommunications firm - which is playing an increasingly large role in Britain's internet ...
Tags: Huawei, Cyber Centre
German manufacturer of slitter/rewinder inspection machines Rotocontrol has appointed MPS Systems as the Rotocontrol /LeoMat agent in the UK. Dutch MPS Systems' subsidiary MPS Systems will offer the Rotocontrol /Leo'Mat brand of finishing ...
Tags: UK Agent, MPS Systems
US-based equity investment firm Madison Dearborn Partners has agreed to buy the US-based print-based packaging supplier Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS), from Irving Place Capital for an undisclosed value. MPS chief executive officer Marc ...
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Chinese communications providers Huawei and China Mobile have successfully deployed 4G coverage on Mount Everest, some 5,200 metres above sea level. The two firms demonstrated a series of new 4G services at a ceremony marking the launch ...
Tags: Huawei, China Mobile, 4G Service
Prison sentences for hacking and cyber crime are set to rise across Europe if a new draft directive becomes law, as the EU looks to combat cyber espionage and cyber attacks against critical national infrastructure. A draft directive set ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
William Hague has branded allegations that the UK government's electronic surveillance centre, GCHQ, has been asking the US National Security Agency for data on UK citizens "nonsense" in comments made before a promised explanation later ...
Tags: Computer Products, web security
The Fashion Institute of Technology's (FIT) beauty industry think tank unveiled "disruptive" visions for the future of consumer product marketing in three key areas of the digital sphere when they presented Beauty in a Digital World, on ...
Tags: FIT, Beauty Industry
The UK government has defended a deal with Chinese telecommunications provider Huawei, which MPs have labelled as a possible risk to national security. The 2005 deal saw Huawei granted permission to provide BT with equipment for its ...
T-Mobile had been using Software AG's Aris to align its business processes for over a decade, but when news broke of a merger with Orange, the company had to review whether the platform was still the best fit for the job. EE's head of ...
Tags: EE, Aris, Customer Experiences
US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
Tags: UK, Amazon, Computer Products
Kuwait's government has accepted the resignation of the country's oil minister, Hani Hussein, the official KUNA news agency reported Monday. Sheikh Mohammed Abdulla, minister of state for cabinet affairs and for municipal affairs, issued ...
Tags: Kuwait, Oil, Hani Hussein
Chadwicks has produced pre-cut-lids for the new Lake District Dairy Co Quark fat-free dairy ingredient from UK-based company First Milk. The company collaborated with First Milk and their other packaging partners to develop a color ...