Amcor Tobacco Packaging has installed two new long Rapida 106 systems from KBA-Sheetfed to boost its tobacco packaging production capabilities in Poland and Mexico. Designed to provide maximum production performance of 15,000 sheets per ...
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Specialty biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films manufacturer Treofan is investing around $45m in a new orientation line at its Americas facility in Zacapu, Mexico. The five-layer and 10.4m orientation line will help to enhance the ...
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Australian packaging company Amcor has acquired China-based Hebei Qite Packing for around RMB185m ($28m). The acquisition will allow Amcor to expand its flexible packaging operations in the Northern China region. Hebei Qite, which ...
Amcor will discuss its approach to sustainability and highlight a broad range of innovative packaging solutions at the SustPack 2016 conference planned to be held from 11-13 April at McCormick Place in Chicago. Under its theme of ...
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Sonoco Consumer Products Europe is planning to close two of its tobacco production plants in Germany, resulting in the removal of 100 employees. The Bunde plant in Northwest Germany will be closed by May 2016 and Hockenheim 3 plant in ...
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Global supplier of folding cartons Amcor Tobacco Packaging has completed the purchase of Souza Cruz’s internal tobacco packaging business based in Cachoeirinha, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. This business is expected to achieve ...
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Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco have sued the UK Government over plain packaging regulations for cigarettes. In their lawsuits filed in the English High Court, the twocompanies claim that the new ...
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Tobacco companies are reportedly launching a major legal assault against the UK government’s standardised packaging legislation According to the Daily Telegraph, the move could be one of the biggest ever legal claims ...
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The Indian Government has promised to push tobacco companies to manufacture packaging with bigger health warnings soon. The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda assured the Lok Sabha that the government would go ahead ...
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A few big names in the tobacco industry have sued the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday over recent guidelines about mandating pre-approval of labelling changes in tobacco products. Companies including RJ Reynolds, Lorillard ...
Swedish Match’s proposal to ease warning labels related to snus tobacco packaging has not been accepted by a panel of US FDA advisors. Snus is a moist tobacco powder put under the upper lip. Swedish Match wants the FDA to allow it ...
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Swedish Match’s proposal to ease warning labels related to snus tobacco packaging has not been given a clearance by US FDA. Snus is a cloth baggie with moist tobacco powder and has to be put under the upper lip by consumers to ...
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Australia’s packaging company Amcor will be acquiring the internal tobacco packaging operations of Souza Cruz in Brazil for $30m (BRL96m). Majority-owned by British American Tobacco, Souza Cruz is considered to be one of the ...
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Australia-based packaging solution provider Amcor has announced the acquisition of South African packaging company Nampak Flexibles for $22m (ZAR250m). Amcor specialises in supplying a range of rigid and flexible packaging products to ...
A series of 14 peer reviewed research papers have found that plain cigarette packaging in Australia has been a success as it has reduced the appeal of smoking among adolescents and also prompted smokers to quit. The findings of the ...