At the end of June 2012, Wrap launched the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement with the broad aim of reducing food and associated packaging waste. But what does this mean for the foodservice packaging sector and what steps can be taken to ...
Taipei, Oct. 1, 2012 (CENS)--LED chipmaker Optotech Corp. has branched out into the packaging sector in the second half this year as the first step of its plan to enlarge market share in LED industry. Founded around 30 years ago, the ...
Dow Performance Packaging, a business unit of the Dow Chemical company, announced that it achieved a new milestone in innovation by creating 42 new products for the packaging sector in 2012. According to the company, its new and expanded ...
Increasingly demanding requirements from food manufacturers and their consumers mean that packaging is becoming progressively 'smarter'. Active or intelligent packaging is a sector which continues to grow in size, with expansion driven by ...
Tags: Smarter Packaging, Antimicrobial packaging, take-up of packaging
A new survey commissioned by the UK-based Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) Corrugated Sector has revealed that the food and beverage manufacturing industry is backing corrugated retail ready packaging (RRP). Corrugated RRP offers ...
Tags: Corrugated Packaging, Paper Industries, food and beverage manufacturing
Canadian manufacturer of green packaging Cascades is all set to invest $22m in several of the folding carton and microlithography plants of its Norampac Division in Canada. As part of the investment, Cascades will install new equipment at ...
Tags: Folding Carton, Microlithography Plants, packaging assets
Dubai-based printing house Emirates Printing Press (EPP) plans to purchase an inline machine system Gallus ICS 670 from Gallus Stanz- und Druckmaschinen, in an effort to expand its activities in the packaging sector. The Gallus ICS 670 ...
Tags: EPP, inline machine system, packaging sector
Austrian chemical and plastics solutions provider Borealis has announced the launch of the new transparent polypropylene (PP) grade, Borpact SH950MO for the frozen food packaging sector. Borpact SH950MO, which is based on Borealis ...
SATO, a supplier of integrated automatic identification and data collection solutions based on barcode and RFID technologies, will be exhibiting its latest printing and labeling innovations at 40th Emballage show from 19-22 November 2012 in ...
Tags: printing innovations, labeling innovations, automated applications
The company, which is in the midst of restructuring its operations, said that the plant will close by the end of the first quarter of 2013. Cascades said the plant west of Montreal has about 155 workers, and about 60 of them will have the ...
Tags: Quebec Plant, Quebec Plant close, Cascades, another facility
SATO, a supplier of integrated automatic identification and data collection solutions based on barcode and RFID technologies, will be exhibiting its latest printing and labeling innovations at 40th Emballage show from 19-22 November 2012 in ...
Tags: automatic identification, data collection solutions, RFID technologies
Allied Glass Containers is delighted to announce that the company has been shortlisted in the Glass Pack of the Year category of the UK Packaging Awards 2012 with The Macallan Chairman's Release bottle,manufactured for The Edrington Group. ...
Tags: package, Allied Glass Containers, The UK Packaging Awards
The most eye-catching displays at Chinaplas 2012 were typically high-tech, eco-friendly and mobile. At Bayer MaterialScience AG’s booth, two small robots danced on a stage six times a day. Behind the flashy displays, however, in ...
Tags: market view
PUNE: The ban on the use of plastic carrybags of a certain quality by governments and civic bodies across the country is an opportunity for the development of biodegradable plastic. Such material can be made into bags for the same purpose, ...
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Packaging: It is used for containment, Protection, handling, delivery and presentation of goods. The most common type of material used for packaging is paper. Exporters in India maintain a database for manufacturers, exporters, wholesalers, ...
Tags: learning center, Packaging