South African beverage can manufacturer Bevcan, a subsidiary of Nampak, has bagged a five-year, ZAR5.6bn ($632m) contract to produce and supply lightweight aluminum cans for Coca-Cola’s beverages portfolio. Coca-Cola South Africa's ...
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US-based Gorham Paper and Tissue has announced the addition of 25% wet strength and color to food packaging papers. Gorham Paper product manager Wayne Nablo said as the paper that holds the burger or fries must stay intact and look good, ...
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Plastic packaging company ITC Packaging, a part of Grupo ITC, has designed new propylene packaging for Italian food company Buitoni’s product line, completissimo. The microwavable individual-portion pack features materials with ...
Rexam Beverage Can has produced new 250ml Fusion aluminum bottle for Mixed Ape Drinks’ range of ready-to-enjoy premixed cocktails. The package allows the drink inside to be consumed straight from the bottle. Mixed Ape Drinks ...
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Glass containers manufacturer Ardagh Group has developed a new bottle for AB InBev’s Beck’s and Beck’s Blue. The new ultra-lightweight 275ml bottle was produced by reducing the original from 185g to 165g. According to ...
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Austrian plastic packaging company Alpla has announced plans to invest $22.4m to open a new blow molding plant in Bowling Green in Kentucky, US by July 2013. Alpla bought the 108,000ft2 plant from the Bowling Green Economic Development ...
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The Paint Research Association (PRA) has developed a food packaging coating product which can replace existing packaging coatings based on petrochemicals that are harmful for the environment. The new eco-friendly food packaging coating ...
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Boehringer Ingelheim has entered into a collaboration agreement with ChemAxon, a provider of cheminformatics software platforms. Under the agreement, Boehringer will implement ChemAxon's chemistry software platform for use in multiple ...
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Specialty biopharmaceutical company Santarus has announced the commercial launch of ulcerative colitis therapy, Uceris (budesonide) extended release tablets. Uceris that contains a locally acting glucocorticosteroid, budesonide, in a ...
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Paterson made his comments after an EU crisis meeting in Brussels, which took place yesterday (13 February). In a statement on the horse meat scandal, Paterson said: “Because of the urgency with which we have to deal what is clearly ...
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Weighing in at just 32g, the bottle – which is currently undergoing trials with a number of Nampak’s customers – represents a 20% material saving on the standard four-pint version found in most supermarkets today (which ...
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After a five-year gap, the iconic Blackpool Tower has been illuminated to light up the sky. Indeed, on Tuesday (February 12th) the new LED light bulbs were switched on in celebratory fashion to mark that 10,000 old energy guzzling ...
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Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which makes gallium nitride (GaN) RF components, and pan-European electronics distributor Acal BFi Ltd have signed a franchise agreement to increase the sale of Cree’s RF components in Italy, Spain, ...
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Denmark-based cancer diagnostics solutions manufacturer Dako announced that it has entered into collaboration agreement with Pfizer in the field of companion diagnostics. The agreement includes a legal framework for various collaboration ...
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Critical Pharmaceuticals has completed second clinical trial on CP024 intranasal growth hormone. CP024 growth hormone nasal spray was safe and well tolerated in the study that administered six dose levels of CP024 in healthy subjects. ...