OptiGroup has acquired businesses in Romania and Finland to expand its operations of the industrial and safety solutions segment. Proxima Tapes and Proxima Comserv provide industrial packaging sales and services to the customers in the ...
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Sensor-based sorting technology provider Tomra Sorting Recycling has secured a contract from Australia-based SKM Recycling (SKM) to supply automated sorting technology. Under the contract, Tomra will supply 40 Autosort units featuring new ...
LG Electronics (LG) is collaborating with Here Technologies to provide a next-generation telematics solution for autonomous vehicles. The solution will integrate LG’s advanced telematics technology with high-precision map data and ...
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Automotive drivetrain supplier Dana has inaugurated a new axle production facility in Toledo, Ohio, at the site that was initially home to Willys-Overland Motors, which had developed the original Jeep. The 300,000 sq. ft. facility was ...
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Mahindra Automotive North America (MANA) has inaugurated a new North American headquarters and manufacturing facility, the first such new OEM facility in Southeast Michigan in over 25 years. The expansion is part of a $230 million ...
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Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is lending its support to the first quantitative study for the reduction of plastic waste in Japan. Dow will provide financial assistance to study the impact of plastic waste and debris on the ...
The 115th United States Congress has passed the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA), which reduces the federal excise tax for breweries, wineries and distilled spirits producers. Under the bill, the federal excise tax ...
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Packaging solutions provider Ardagh has designed a new glass bottle for Accolade Wines’ Summer Berries Vodka. Ardagh’s team from Knottingley of West Yorkshire has developed a sleek shaped 70cl bottle for the vodka by observing ...
X-Rite’s eXact family of handheld spectrophotometers is now supporting new ISO standard for Spot Color Tone Value (SCTV). eXact allows printers and packaging converters to understand, control, manage, and communicate color through ...
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European Plastics Converters (EuPC), a European trade association, has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and future use of recycled content as well as incentives and barriers to its use. With high targets ...
Puerto Rican firm PET Plastics has purchased a complete system from Sacmi capable of processing up to 2,000 caps per minute, with higher quality performance, lower costs and increased process efficiency. Fast, easy size changeovers, ...
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US-based printing services provider DPI Direct has invested in eight-color Edale FL3 flexographic press, in a bid to enhance its production operations. The Edale FL3 flexographic press features 430mm web width, AiiR system and converting ...
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Volvo Cars has started testing its autonomous drive cars through taking the support of Swedish families in Gothenburg. Under the Drive Me project, the company has provided two Volvo XC90 premium SUVs to Hains and Simonovskis families to ...
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UK-based Skymark Packaging invested in a Universal X6 laser perforation slitter rewinder to boost its flexible packaging production. The new laser perforation slitter rewinder from Universal Converting Equipment will allow Skymark to ...
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Dolco Packaging, a Tekni-Plex business unit, is among this year's sponsors of the annual Festival of Trees, the signature fundraising event for the Embassy Theater Foundation in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Begun in 1984, The Festival of Trees ...
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