Food packaging and processing firm Tetra Pak has acquired Germany-based Big Drum Engineering for an undisclosed sum. Based in Edertal, Big Drum is involved in the supply of filling machines for the ice cream industry. The company is ...
UK-based PCI Pharma Services has acquired pharmaceutical and healthcare contract packaging services provider Millmount Healthcare. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. For more than 20 years, Millmount has been ...
Tags: PCI Pharma Services, packaging
KeyImpact Sales & Systems, a foodservice sales and marketing agency in the US, has announced the acquisition of Premium Packaging Group (PPG), a foodservice packaging and supply sales agency. This acquisition is the third by KeyImpact in ...
Tags: Keyimpact, Premium Packaging
Chilean fruit producer Hortifrut has agreed to take over the blueberry business of Talsa for $160m. In addition to the cash payment, Talsa will get a stake of 17.13% in the merged company alongside a result-based reward. Talsa, a ...
US global private equity firm, The Riverside Company, has agreed to acquire Texas-based food ingredients company Parker Products for an undisclosed price. Parker Products serves the baking, dairy, beverage, confectionery, RTE and snack, ...
Tags: Riverside, Food Ingredients, Parker Products
Temptee Specialty Foods has merged with Johnson Food Products, a manufacturer of Johnson Chili. This merger combines a strong brand name with the innovative Temptee team. Temptee is launching the Johnson Chili Original andHot-N-Spicy ...
Tags: Specialty Foods, Food Products
Self-adhesive label materials manufacturer UPM Raflatac said that it will open a new slitting and distribution terminal in Santiago, Chile in early 2018. This new terminal will allow UPM Raflatac to improve its service capabilities and ...
Tags: UPM Raflatac, film products
Belgium-based label printer Femalabel has invested in two Xeikon CX3 digital label presses, in a bid to enhance its production capacity. The installation of Xeikon aka Cheetah presses will allow Femalabel to expand the production of ...
BASF has agreed to divest its paper coating dispersions business in Pischelsdorf of Austria to Synthomer for around €30m. Synthomer Austria will acquire BASF production site in Pischelsdorf, which produces styrene butadiene rubber ...
Tags: Paper Coating Dispersions, BASF
Feldmuehle Uetersen, a manufacturer of label papers, packaging papers and graphic papers, is restructuring its product portfolio and sales organization to strengthen its market position. As part of the exercise, six product segments of ...
HP has unveiled new portfolio of solutions for digital printing and embellishment of labels at this year’s Labelexpo event in Belgium. The event is being held between 25 and 28 September in Brussels. The new solutions can be used ...
Tags: Digital Printing, HP
Hong Kong-based pork supplying giant WH Group said that its subsidiary Smithfield Foods will acquire 100% stake of two Romanian packaged meats manufacturers Elit and Vericom for an undisclosed price. The acquisition will further expand ...
Tags: Smithfield Foods, Packaged Meats
“The SiC power business is concrete and real, with a promising outlook,” said Yole Développement in 2016. The trend has not changed in 2017, and the SiC industry is going even further as industrial players have increasing ...
Tags: SiC power, SiC devices
International Paper (IP) has unveiled plans to invest around $300m to convert its No. 15 paper machine at the Riverdale Mill in Selma, Alabama, US. The company will convert the paper machine from uncoated freesheet to whitetop linerboard ...
Tags: International Paper, paper machine
Twisted X Brewing has launched two new beers, the Gulf Kolsch Blonde Ale and Whoa-Mango IPA. The new products will be hitting Texas retail shelves and on-premise customers in the coming weeks. Both Gulf Kolsch and Whoa-Mango will be ...