In the 2012 financial year, turnover at the surfaces manufacturer Surteco at €407.7m was minimally down on the figure achieved in the previous year. Foreign turnover was up by 1%, while domestic revenues showed decline of roughly 3%, ...
Tags: Surteco, strategic business, SGE Paper
Materials science company Ecovative has selected Kenactiv Innovations as a raw material supply partner in the deployment of its new mycelium technology, a sustainable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) and other plastics that are ...
Tags: Mushroom-Based Technology, Packaging Composites, Packaging
Lanxess, a Germany-based speciality chemicals group, is planning many chemical production projects in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Lanxess vice president and managing director Elie Saad was quoted by MEED as saying that the ...
Tags: Lanxess, chemicals operations, chemicals
Printing inks and pigments manufacturer Sun Chemical will exhibit its portfolio of metal packaging ink solutions at Cannex 2013 taking place from 1-3 May 2013 in Atlanta, US. At Cannex 2013, the company will showcase three of its product ...
Tags: metal packaging, packaging, Printing inks
Rigid plastic packaging supplier Holfeld Plastics has received approval from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its Diamat technology, which involves consecutive extrusion processes for decontamination efficiency of polyethylene ...
Plastic packaging supplier and manufacturer M&H Plastics has announced the addition of a new PET bottle to its standard products range. According to the company, the 25ml bottle is manufactured in PET, offering good product clarity. The ...
Tags: M&H Plastics, Pet Bottle, Packaging
Quadrant Engineering Plastic Products, a provider of high-performance engineering plastics for life sciences industry, will collaborate with MediTECH, a supplier of medical grade UHMW-PE to the orthopaedic implant industry. The ...
Tags: MediTECH, medicine, life science
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,22 commodities increased in prices, 27 fell and 51 remained unchanged on 25/03/2013.The largest rises were Propylene oxide (1.24%),PA (1.12%),Nickel (1.04%),while the ...
Tags: Commodities Price Chart, China, Chemicals
Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) is a commodity product and used as feedstock in polyester industries and PET bottle industry. As such, the market for MEG generally moves in line with the polyester industry, especially in China where the need ...
The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State, Science and Technology for the Federal Economic Agency for Southern Ontario, will deliver the opening address at UBM Canon's Toronto Advanced Manufacturing Expo on May 14, 2013 at the Toronto ...
Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Budget statement. He pledged to scrap a 3p rise in fuel duty, cut national insurance payments and raise the personal allowance to £10,000 next April. Every business in the country ...
Tags: Industry Chiefs, Packaging, Chancellor
Embleton Hall Dairies, in England is all set to launch its milk in the new two-liter infini HDPE recyclable bottle, which has been designed by Nampak Plastics, UK's plastic milk bottle manufacturer. Designed to be light weighted by up to ...
The recycling of rigid plastics, excluding bottles, climbed 13 percent in 2011 to reach at least 934 million pounds for the year, and U.S. consumers with local access to recycle all non-bottle rigid plastics shot from 40 percent to 57 ...
Tags: rigid plastics, bottles, containers
APR Allen Plastics Repair has joined the Reusable Packaging Association to help increase awareness of the value of reusables and the role of refurbished prod-ucts and container repair in sup-port-ing sustainability initiatives. APR Allen ...
The Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association is challenging the effectiveness of a recently-developed class of plastics containing additives described as "natural", "enzymatic" or "microbiodegradable". These additives, which are not ...