Actega North America, a provider of specialty coatings and chemicals, has introduced MotionCoat UV coating system. The patent pending MotionCoat coating system, which is a new addition to the company's specialty coatings portfolio, can be ...
Tags: UV Coating, Packaging Market
Amcor will discuss its approach to sustainability and highlight a broad range of innovative packaging solutions at the SustPack 2016 conference planned to be held from 11-13 April at McCormick Place in Chicago. Under its theme of ...
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US demand for food containers is projected to increase 2.8% per year to more than $31bn in 2020. Major trends include a general shift from rigid packaging formats to flexible containers, efforts to improve both the reality and optics of ...
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), in collaboration with SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association (SPI), have launched a multi-hospital plastics recycling project in Chicago. Focused on non-infectious plastic packaging and ...
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has recognised flexible and specialty rigid packaging manufacturer Printpack for its technical innovation. The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has awarded flexible and specialty rigid ...
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Rigid plastics, flexibles, and board, metal and glass packaging will drive industry expansion across the next five years. In global researcher Smithers Pira's report, called The Future of Global Packaging to 2020, it states that the $839 ...
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Functional printing will be a big focus at global printing trade fair drupa in May. The European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association will host a pavilion dedicated to functional and industrial printing, with member companies ...
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Packaging firm Sonoco has introduced a new quad-seal flexible bag, which features Cross-Seal technology. Initially, the firm is commercially offering the new bag with Cross-Seal technology for coffee manufacturers. Sonoco said that ...
Tags: Sonoco, Pakaging, Cross-Seal technology, Coffee industry
Fresh food packaging manufacturer Linpac is planning to invest €8m in new extrusion and thermoforming capacity in Pravia, Spain, to meet growing demand for PET and rPET. In order to deliver a greater range of lighter, more ...
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Kiefel, the German manufacturer of thermoforming machines and a unit of Brückner Group, has announced to acquire 100% stake in Mould & Matic Solutions, an Austrian supplier of tools and of automation solutions to the packaging ...
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Private equity firm Quad-C Management has invested undisclosed sum in rigid container and life sciences packaging distributor Inmark Packaging. Under the terms of the deal, which is structured as an owner-operator recapitalization, ...
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Sonoco, one of the global diversified packaging companies, has expanded its fiber certification program into Brazil and Mexico, as of mid-February 2016. Although most of the raw material used in our mills is 100 percent recycled fiber, ...
Ford announced that its all-new 2017 Ford F-Series super duty chassis cab is tough, smart and capable Super Duty chassis cab. With best-in-class capability, the all-new F-350, F-450 and F-550 chassis cab lineup is optimized to help ...
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Germany-based Rotocontrol will supply two new label finishing machines to Adhesivos Ezquerro and Etiquetas Adhesivas Rever in Spain. Packaging and labels specialist Adhesivos Ezquerro will procure a RSC slitter rewinder, which is designed ...
Tags: Label Finishing Machines, Packaging, labels
Crown Asia Chemicals has reportedly invested in new equipment to increase plastic compounding capacity in Philippines by around 10%. The company equipped its facility in Guiguinto, Bulacan with a new polyvinyl chloride (PVC) compounding ...