Velox, one of Europe’s solution providers of raw material specialties for the plastics, composites, additives and paint & coatings industries, has launched a new, enhanced range of Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol (PETG) for ...
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Sun Chemical, a subsidiary of DIC group, has introduced new UV ink system for primary and secondary food packaging applications. The ink system, dubbed SunCure Accuflex UV, is for several food applications that are not manufactured with ...
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US-based PPG has opened a nearly $3m expansion for packaging coatings manufacturing at its Oak Creek facility in Wisconsin. As part of the expansion project, the firm added a new 3,300ft² facility to produce food-can coatings to help ...
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Del Monte Foods, a North American food production and distribution company, plans to eliminate the use of hazardous chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) lining in cans used for food packaging. Starting in May 2016, the company plans to commence ...
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Campbell Soup is planning to eliminate the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) linings from foods and beverages can packaging. The firm delivered two million cans with linings made from acrylic or polyester materials replacing BPA. The new lining ...
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Campbell’s Soup Company has announced it will be completing a packaging transformation by mid-2017 in response to consumer concerns. The decision will affect all of its canned soups. Changes to the packaging will involve the ...
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PPG Industries has launched new Nutrishield and Nutrishield Solista coatings for food cans to meet food-contact regulatory requirements. The new Nutrishield Solista internal protective spray coatings are developed for drawn and ...
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The printing industry is changing tracks: These days, more and more specialist firms are switching from the traditional analog approach to digital printing procedures, preferring in particular the use of inkjet printers that increasingly ...
Coatings firm PPG Industries will showcase its new range of beverage can interior spray coatings at the Cannex & Fillex Asia Pacific to be held in June in Guangzhou, China. PPG will introduce Innovel HPE polyester coatings for coil ...
PPG Industries’ packaging coatings business has announced that it will showcase INNOVEL HPS new generation spray coatings for the interior of beverage cans at Cannex & Fillex Asia Pacific in Guangzhou, China, June 1-4. PPG also will ...
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Hong Kong based startup Vitargent has developed a food testing technology with fish embryos to detect toxic substances in food. Though the technology has been developed for food and beverages, it also has applications in areas such as ...
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In America, the FDA’s current position is that BPA is safe at the current levels occurring in foods. In 2014, FDA experts from across the agency, specialising in toxicology, analytical chemistry, endocrinology, epidemiology, and other ...
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PPG Industries’ packaging coatings business has announced that it will feature a new generation of coatings for the protection of monobloc aerosol cans and aluminum and plastic tubes during the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum in Paris, ...
Green Biologics Inc. has announced the successful closing of its acquisition of the assets of Central MN Ethanol Cooperative LLC (CMEC). Green Biologics intends to repurpose the operation, which includes a 21 million gallon per year ethanol ...
Tags: paints, coatings, adhesives, inks, cosmetics, Construction
U.S. 8,632,857 B2 Valspar Sourcing Inc. has been awarded a patent for a method of coating a metal substrate with a hardenable packaging coating system comprised of applying an under-coat composition to a metal substrate, the under-coat ...
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