Videojet Technologies has announced the launch of a 50-Watt fiber laser marking system to address manufacturers’ requirements to laser mark on plastic packaging, metal containers, and other industrial products. Engineered for high ...
Portugal-based PET bottles producer Gepack has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Arizona, US. In the later part of the year, Gepack USA will construct a 12,000ft2 facility near Phoenix in Peoria of Arizona. The ...
Non-profit organization the Florida Institute for Commercialization of Public Research has announced the finalization of a funding agreement with US Bioplastics. Gatoresin, a product from the Orlando-based US Bioplastics' is based on ...
Tags: Florida Institute, US Bioplastics, Packaging
The opening keynote will be delivered by Philip Law, the new director-general of the 81 year-old body, which has more than 400 members across the plastics industry supply chain, including polymer producers and suppliers, additive ...
The Canadian Paint and Coatings Association (CPCA) has announced that it is partnering with Smithers Rapra as a supporting association of this year's Pigment and Color Science Forum and TiO2 World Summit. This year the two long-standing ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Pigment, Coating
The UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has provided funding for a consortium to improve recycling and the remanufacture of aluminum. LRS Consultancy will lead the recycling project in ...
Tags: Aluminum Recycling, Defra
Consolidated Container (CCC), an investment arm of Bain Capital in the plastic packaging sector, has acquired plastic recycling companies Envision Plastics and Ecoplast from their founders Massoud Rad and Parham Yedidsion. Both the ...
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InterPlas Thailand, the only international plastics & rubber manufacturing machinery and technologies exhibition in Thailand, will open its 23rd edition from June 19-22, 2014, at BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand, to showcase the latest ...
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VELOX GmbH has formed a new distribution partnership with Lubrizol Advanced Materials M.S. S.L. for its Merquinsa legacy TPU technologies. VELOX is a well-established distributor of raw material specialities for the plastics, composites, ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
The China Packaging Tour is all about sightseeing – the kind of sightseeing that will pay you back in business contacts and new opportunities for business growth. China has the largest population in the world - around 1.35 billion ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to C3 Petrochemicals LLC in Alvin, Texas. C3 plans to construct a new propane ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Gas
Premier Evolvics Pvt. Ltd, a fast emerging India-based leader in the field of quality testing, yarn clearing, contamination sorter and online monitoring and services for the worldwide textile spinning industry is exhibiting its range at ...
Tags: Textile
Automotive manufacturer Ford Motor has partnered with the US-based HJ Heinz Food Company to research if the tomato fiber can be used to develop a more sustainable bio-plastic material for vehicles. With the collaboration, the automaker ...
Tags: Vehicle, Auto Parts
A new report by Allied Market Research ("Industrial Robotics Market – Products, Functions, Applications and Geography – Global Analysis, Industry Growth, Trends, Size, Share, Opportunities and Forecast – 2013 – ...
Tags: Industrial Robotics, Electrical, Electronics, Industrial Equipment
The flexible packaging market is rapidly growing, with recent research suggesting that its global value equated to £45bn in 2013. But what has been the catalyst for this growth? Why is rigid packaging being replaced with flexible? ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Flexible Packaging