North American rigid packaging manufacturer Placon has completed the acquisition of Plastic Packaging, a rigid plastic container producer in the US. The 100,000ft2 location of Plastic Packaging in West Springfield will bring the total ...
FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC, the manufacturer of archery and bow hunting products and accessories, has been acquired by Snow Phipps Group, LLC, a New York-based private-equity firm. FeraDyne designs, manufactures and markets category-leading ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Dal-Tile recently completed the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) development process for all products manufactured in the company’s North American production facilities. With third party validation from PE International and ...
German packaging solutions provider Krones has unveiled the new 'DecoType' technology for digital direct printing on containers and packages during an ongoing production operation. The new technology has been designed to enable users ...
Tags: Krones, Direct Printing, Plastic Containers
The advantages of direct printing still need to be explained to all but a handful of companies. The main plus is that it offers significantly more scope for individualised and eye-catching design – the kind of small run, quick ...
ETH Zürich and Philips Technologie GmbH have developed 981nm-wavelength passively mode-locked electrically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (EP-VECSELs) with “the shortest pulses (2.5ps), highest average ...
Tags: EP-VECSELs InGaAs GaAs
A pioneering £31 million deal will be struck today (3 April) to make hydrogen vehicles a viable and environmentally friendly choice for motorists across Europe. Leading motor manufacturers, hydrogen fuel suppliers, the Mayor of ...
Tags: hydrogen vehicles
The arbitrage to ship styrene monomer from the US Gulf to Northeast Asia has opened this week after being closed since late last year, traders and end-users in Asia said. But demand remains uncertain as China still has a relatively high ...
European polyethylene converters have rejected contract prices increases for April announced by PE producers, they said this week. PE producers announced increases of Eur20-40/mt, while converters were eyeing at a rollover in prices. ...
Tags: Chemicals, Polyethylene, PE
FKuR has been on a growth spurt. The company's flagship bioplastic, Bio-Flex, is a blend of blends of co-polyester and PLA with a very high content of natural resource material, and comes in thirteen grades. Each Bio-Flex packaging film ...
Austrian manufacturer of plastic products Borealis and UAE-based Borouge have jointly launched a new grade of BorPure high density polyethylene (HDPE) family for caps and closures. Made with Borealis' Borstar polyethylene (PE) ...
Tags: Borealis, HDPE Grade, Caps, Closures
Finnish thin film coating specialist Picodeon Ltd Oy has developed its ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology to be able to create either porous or dense aluminium oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive ...
High ethylene prices in Asia have been keeping margins of most ethylene derivatives in the red, forcing some MEG and polyethylene makers to consider trimming operation rates or closing entire production lines, sources said this week. In ...
US polyethylene contracts rose 4 cents/lb in February after producers were successful in implementing the hike that had been anticipated since the end of 2013, market sources said. Producer sources had expressed confidence in obtaining ...
Tags: Polyethylene, Chemicals
10 Feb 2014 tna has more than 6000 systems installed across more than 120 countries. Mark stand 17B/43 in your must visit list at interpack 2014. tna is putting its most forward-thinking systems on show. Here are five: Two different ...
Tags: FX 3ci RTJ, Food Packaging, VFFS, SCADA