Manufacturer of wooden pallets and crates Depin will open a new facility at the Port of Kalama, US, in June. The firm has taken 12,000ft2 on lease at the port, where it will also shift its headquarters from Salem, Oregon. Depin owner ...
Tags: Depin, Ecocrate Operations
Women’s apparel retailer Ann Inc has partnered with ‘Give Back Box’, a social enterprise organisation dedicated to facilitating charitable donations and sustainability. Through the partnership, Ann gives clients the ...
Tags: Used Clothing, Used Boxes, Women's apparel
Germany-based Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Wentus has developed a new barrier film for dry food products that claims to stop the entry of potentially harmful mineral oils from the outer packaging into food. The multi-layer barrier ...
Ireland-based recycling body Repak is urging consumers to recycle the waste that is generated during Easter celebrations, including the aluminium made chocolate wrappers. Repak's statistics on Ireland's Easter habit revealed that the ...
Tags: Repak, Easter celebrations, Packaging
US-based environmentally conscious bottled-water company EARTH2O will use recycled material sourced from Orpet to create a closed-loop manufacturing system to infinitely reuse Oregon’s recycled goods. EARTH2O is considered to be ...
Tags: EARTH2O, water bottles, Packaging
Research facility plays key role in Finnish paper chemicals firm's sustainability plans At a temperature-controlled Kemira laboratory in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, one can find lab workers and technicians huddled over consoles ...
UK-based Cromwell Polythene has added a dispenser pack, EaZee, to its professional range of refuse sacks for home cleaning and janitorial market. The dispenser made of cardboard carton features a perforated lid that helps in reducing ...
In the early 80s, a young Ogilvy & Mather art director, John Curran, was feeling a long way from home. He’d been in Australia for many months, but his girlfriend had just arrived with a lot of his memories in her suitcase. He ...
Private equity firm, The Onex Group, has completed the acquisition process of SIG Combibloc Group, suppliers of carton packaging and filling machines for beverages and food, for €3.75bn. SIG is a part of the New Zealand-based Rank ...
Tags: packaging materials, corresponding filling machines, SIG
The initiative covers three main areas – the company’s manufacturing processes, product design and facilities – and involves close working partnerships with its customers and employees. In its manufacturing operations, ...
Tags: Rieke, re-usable products
In a surprise announcement during the HTC One M9 press conference at MWC 2015 in Barcelona, HTC announced a brand new virtual reality headset to be built in conjunction with Valve, the software giant whose Steam platform dominates PC ...
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Unveiled today at the New York Toy Fair, the reimagined View Master is a $30 augmented reality gadget powered by Google’s Cardboard tech. Mattel has teamed with Google to revive the View Master and bring virtual reality into the ...
Fred Williams is now working with the design team at The Green Board Game Co. to turn Summit Up in to a working prototype. A seven-year-old boy from Northumberland has been named the Young Games Inventor of the Year. Fred Williams from ...
Tags: cranium-busting game, Toys
Innovia Films has launched a new BOPP film called Propafilm RCU, which is tested to provide up to 18 months protection from mineral oil migration. The company developed the film after earlier studies found that foods were being ...
Tags: pasta, rice, breakfast cereals, biscuits, Agriculture
Biofilms producer Innovia Films has launched its first bioriented polypropylene (BOPP) film, Propafilm RCU, which is proven to provide up to 1.5 years protection from mineral oil migration. This new innovation is the result of ...
Tags: biscuits, bakery, confectionery, dried foods, Agriculture