UK-based manufacturer WaveGrip has launched a choice of different colours for its Can carriers. The innovation is expected to enable beverage producers to come up with more on-shelf impact and make their brand stand out amid competition. ...
Tags: Can carriers, WaveGrip
Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury has appointed Alastair Bearman as its new sales and marketing director following the retirement of Martin Hardman. Alastair has 25 years flexible packaging experience with Americk Primopost and Pulse ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Packaging
A study carried out by denkstatt on behalf of Austrian converter Alpla has revealed that recycled PET (rPET) results in a much higher carbon dioxide saving than assumed earlier. The tests were undertaken using rPET from Alpla's subsidiary ...
Tags: PET, carbon emissions
Simply Innovative Products has signed multiple manufacturing supply agreements to produce its patented plastic disposable beverage lid for the company's subsidiary Simply Lids. The supply agreements involve the production of two injection ...
Tags: Beverage, disposable cups
Inci-Flex, a flexo and gravure prepress business based in Fisciano (Salerno province), Italy, has presented an automated flexo platemaking process, which the company says will assure quality, standardization and productivity. The Italian ...
Tags: Flexo Platemaking Process, LED UV
Private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has signed an agreement to sell its portfolio company Novel Ingredients to specialty ingredients provider Innophos Holdings. Novel Ingredients, which was acquired by GenNx360 in March 2014, is ...
Tags: Innophos, raw materials
Brynwood Partners VII has acquired Cold Spring Brewing Company from its current owner, the Lenore family, for an undisclosed amount. Located in Cold Spring, MN, Cold Spring is a leading beverage manufacturer that produces energy drinks, ...
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Blue Pacific Flavors, an organic flavor and ingredient manufacturer has opened a new research and development laboratory, dubbed the Flavor Creation and Culinary Innovation Center. The lab handles all product development and flavor ...
Tags: Blue Pacific Flavors, organic food
Packaging materials developer Tekni-Plex is expanding its Tekni-Films operations in Italy via an acquisition. The company acquired the self-adhesive tape substrate operations of Alfatherm SpA of Venegono Superiore (VA), Italy. The ...
Tags: Tekni-Plex, Adhesive Tape
Ampacet, a manufacturer of additive masterbatches for flexible packaging and rigid packaging, has opened a new masterbatch production facility in Dandenong, Australia, to extend its footprint in the region. The new facility manufactures ...
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MillerCoors has designated CROWN Beverage Packaging Mexico, a business unit of Crown Holdings, as its 2016 Packaging Materials Supplier of the Year. Crown’s facility in Monterrey, Mexico supplies MillerCoors with crowns and aluminum ...
Tags: Beverage Packaging, Packaging
WestRock has purchased Australian paperboard-packaging manufacturer Hannapack for A$75m ($59m) to expand its consumer packaging portfolio. Hannapack, which was established by Charles Hanna in 1967, provides folding cartons to a range of ...
Tags: WestRock, Consumer Packaging
Irish glass and metal packaging group Ardagh stated that its revenue has increased 58% to €2.02bn for the second quarter of this year, when compared to €1.3bn for the same period in 2016. Adjusted earnings before interest, ...
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Innis & Gunn is launching two limited edition barrel aged beers, Latitude and Longitude and Vanishing Point in the US. The Latitude and Longitude series takes inspiration from the best loved beer styles from around the world, adding an ...
Tags: Innis&Gunn, Barrel Aged Beers
Israel-based Tipa has developed and manufactured a new technology that could solve the problem of non-recyclable flexible plastic. Food and beverage packaging accounts for more than half of the non-recyclable flexible plastic in the ...
Tags: Tipa, Plastic Recycling