Elopak is the first manufacturer to deliver over one billion 100% renewable cartons after launching beverage cartons featuring certified renewable polyethylene (PE) in 2014. Elopak's cartons offered with renewable PE, help ensuring ...
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DS Smith has achieved FSC Chain of Custody Certification for its Trakia Paper Mill in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody certificate allows DS Smith’s internal and external customers to trace ...
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UK-based Benders Papers Cups has developed new coffee cups for Falkingham & Taylor (Vending). The new cups, which will feature Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC UK) certification label, have been developed to ...
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Paper bag manufacturer AB Group Packaging has introduced a heavyweight paper bag at the Packaging Innovations 2017 event held earlier this month in Birmingham, UK. Certified by Programme for the Endorsement of Forest certification (PEFC), ...
Chinese LED light manufacturer Advanced Optronic Devices and Indian company Syska LED Lights will jointly invest INR 5 billion (US $75.21 million) in a LED manufacturing plant in the state of Telangana in India, according to a report from ...
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Several Australian meat producers are petitioning the government to take control of the halal certification system in the country. Around 10 of the largest meat processors in Australia have approached the government in order to ...
The General Office of the Ministry of Commerce has recently issued the Notice of the Guidance Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Modern Logistic System of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials (No.[2014]809, hereinafter referred to ...
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BASF will expand its emollients and waxes production capacity with a new plant at its site in Jinshan, Shanghai. The investment, complementing the current production of wax esters, emulsifiers and primary surfactants in Jinshan, will ...
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The PEFC leaders’ summit, recently held in London, encouraged consumers to buy day‐to‐day products carrying the PEFC ‘two trees’ label. The summit discussed the challenges and possible solutions to ...
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Parkside Flexibles has secured accreditation for its Park-2-Nature multi-layer laminates for industrial and home composting. Parkside Flexibles is a speciality packaging manufacturer specialising in printing, lamination, laser, thermal ...
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Indonesia’s ability to export sustainable forestry products has just been given an adrenalin boost. All products recognised by the Indonesian Forestry Certification Cooperation (IFCC) will receive automatic accreditation from the ...
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Fulgar SpA, Italian yarn manufacturers, has been named Company of the Month for November 2014, by the International Association for Research and Testing in the Field of Textile Ecology (OEKO-TEX), which provides testing and certification ...
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Elopak has launched a range of beverage cartons that are made of certified renewable polyethylene (PE), said to be the first for the European market. Another first for the company is that Elopak has used second generation renewable PE, ...
YKK Fastening, the fastening products group of Japan-based YKK Corporation, is working toward a sustainable society in cooperation with customers, employees and local communities. To achieve the goal, YKK divides its focus on ...
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Switzerland-based OEKO-TEX has introduced a new certificate for textiles– ‘Made in Green by OEKO-TEX’, which proves that the textiles are safe in terms of human ecology and are additionally produced in a sustainable and ...
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