American agribusiness company Cargill has expanded its wheat processing plant in Efremov, Russia, with an investment of $100m. As a result of the expansion, the plant can now process 500,000 tons of wheat a year - almost double its ...
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You know that carton packaging 'tells' a consumer that your ready meal or packaged meat is superior quality. You've baulked at using it because the carton sleeves have to be applied by hand, and this would slow down your production process. ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Food Packaging
The FMCG giant, one of the UK’s biggest users of packaging, has released its latest sustainability update which said it used around 178,000 tonnes of packaging, including glass, aluminium and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic, ...
The Caribbean Container (CCI) has commissioned a $44m waste recycling plant at its facility in Farm East Bank Demerara, Guyana, South America. The new facility is a part of the company's strategy to strengthen its recycling capabilities ...
The global packaging company teamed up with linerless labelling specialist Ravenwood to develop Slidewrap – a pioneering slidable labelling system, which looks and functions just like a cardboard sleeve, but is said to deliver the ...
As consumers we see hundreds, if not thousands of packages every single day. With so many products in the marketplace today companies are constantly trying to differentiate themselves from their competition counterparts. New companies ...
Packaging firm Sonoco's rigid plastics facility in the US has secured LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification from the US Green Building Council. Located in the Beauty and Home Care Campus of New ...
The research, carried out independently by YouGov, surveyed 2157 UK respondents, and found more women (79%) than men (74%) prefer to dispense their ketchup out of a plastic bottle. The nature of the design of these bottles, now boasting a ...
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Paper Shooters, the firm behind a range of cardboard construct blasters, has launched a fundraising campaign to get its products into stores. The firm is currently seeking £75,000 in return for 25 per cent equity of the brand, ...
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Residents on a street in the west London borough of Hounslow are complaining that new LED street lamps are so bright that they are affecting their quality of life. The 8-metre tall columns were installed on Whitehall Park Road in the ...
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IFCO has signed an agreement with UK's food retailer The Co-operative Group to provide returnable plastic container (RPC) services for suppliers of fresh produce. As per the deal, IFCO will begin supplying RPCs to fresh produce suppliers ...
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UK-based carton board packaging products manufacturer Glossop Cartons has bought a Lamina FA fully automatic laminating machine from Lamina System. The new sheet to sheet mounting machine will enable Glossop to laminate paper and ...
As part of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) routine testing of various food products, a survey released today found that all juice and bottled water tested for antimony were safe to consume. The CFIA tested 359 samples of ...
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Moosehead is a hair styling range for blokes who don't think their heads should smell like strawberries or roses, but still get that real men do use hair products. "The idea of the range is to be fun, entertaining and inspired while ...
Greiner Packaging International is all set to develop K3 packaging technology at its Diepoldsau site in Switzerland. Said to be a decoration variant for cup packaging, which is flexible than sleeves, K3 D stands for ...
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