Leading designer support scheme Fashion East returns to London Fashion Week in February 2014 to showcase hand-selected new talents. With 10 years of support from Topshop and an inimitable track record, Fashion East continues to champion the ...
After several rounds of meeting with the relevant stakeholders, the Supreme Council for Wages (CSS) has fixed the minimum wage for Category C employees, which include those working in the apparel export sector, at 225 gourdes (about US$ ...
hosted by Sidel, took place in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 25 and 26. More than 120 attendees from Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa met to discuss the need for sustainability to assure the future of the bottled beverage industry. ...
The family run business previously operated several letterpress machines before starting their expansion with the purchase of an Edale FL-1 twin stack press for self-adhesive labels and have already seen a huge increase in productivity ...
Tags: Etiq Color, Edale Presses, letterpress, press, packaging, label, flexopress
Octal's high-grade trays replace traditional polypropylene/polyethylene containers, providing a recyclable alternative. William J. Barenberg Jr., chief operating officer at Octal, said: "Until recently, meat and poultry processors widely ...
Tags: Octal, Poultry Packaging Trays, Recyclable Alternative
As one of the most serious, but often most misunderstood, retail loss prevention issues, return fraud costs retailers billions of dollars every year. According to NRF's 2013 Return Fraud Survey completed by loss prevention executives at ...
Tags: Apparel, Textile, Holiday Economy
Boxed beverages, like juice-boxes, have been around since the mid-60s. Children have been drinking juice out of cardboard squares lined with plastic or aluminum for years. This hybrid, multi-layer construction makes recycli ng the ...
Elizabeth Arden selected Airopack as the environmentally friendly, safe, all-plastic, pressurized dispenser that uses 42 percent less energy and emits 74 percent less CO2 than a regular aerosol can to dispense the new Ceramide Self-Foaming ...
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
For flexible packaging applications, choose from a range of stock pouch fitments/weld spouts. The company's engineering staff can help design a custom product to fit your needs, and rapid in-house prototyping allows for quick response time. ...
Tags: flexible packaging, Packaging, Printing
Asked where the focus for developments is on blister packaging lines, Bernd Webel, sales director with? Romaco, is unequivocal in his response: "Romaco Noack focuses on the constant improvement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) ...
Tags: Blister Packaging, Innovation
The LCA model enables the companies to track their products from raw material through to consumer use and disposal, and detects areas of major environmental impacts and then help reduce those impacts. "To achieve the ultimate goal of ...
Tags: Lifecycle Assessment, Unilever, UPM
The new range includes boxes that can carry between two and eight cupcakes and the box designs are unique to the the Rutland-based company behind the range, Bakerlot. The boxes feature window biodegradable patches made from Polylactic ...
Due to high global oversupply and stock, the aluminum prices fell by 1.4% to US$1,748/ton on November 27th, the the lowest since July 2009. Decline in aluminum prices may cause the Jamaican major aluminum producers Rusal and Alcoa to ...
Tags: Jamaican, Economy Damaged, Aluminum Prices
Even the post-turkey coma couldn't keep a good shopper down as millions of people across the country lined the sidewalks late Thursday night and by midnight on Black Friday to stock up on discounted toys, laptops, tablets, apparel, and ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, Retail Sales