Just before Christmas, NSW Premier, Mike Baird, and the Environment Minister, Rob Stokes, wrote to the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA)’s chairman, Grant Musgrove, and Coca-Cola Amatil managing director, Barry ...
Tags: packaging waste litter, recycling, Packaging
Specialty chemicals Group Altana has acquired two companies in Brazil. As a result, the Actega division now has its own sites in South America's largest country. Both of the acquired companies are owner-operated and headquartered in the ...
Tags: packaging industry, overprint varnishes, printing inks, Construction
Global rethinker of the paper, biomaterials, wood products and packaging industry Stora Enso has announced that its renewable packaging division will be divided into two parts, consumer board and packaging solutions. The two divisions ...
Tags: biomaterials, wood products, packaging industry, Agriculture
Custom blow molded packaging solutions supplier Pretium Packaging has acquired Tri-Delta Plastics for an undisclosed amount. Tri-Delta manufactures a complete line of proprietary rigid packaging products for the food, healthcare, and ...
The two day show will focus on the latest trends and innovations in packaging materials, designs and concepts, with dedicated Ecopack and Contract Pack areas. Alison Church, event director for easyFairs’ UK packaging events, said: ...
Tags: packaging materials, designs, concepts, Packaging
The two-year REFLEX project, funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, aims to create a circular economy for flexible packaging – from confectionery wrappers to detergent pouches – by involving the whole supply ...
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Scotland-based W&M Watson Packaging (WMW) will be acquiring two self-adhesive label companies based in central Scotland - Lothian Labels (LLL) and Complete Labelling (CLL). While the former is a prominent label manufacturer, the latter ...
Tags: self-adhesive label, Packaging
The growing problem of product counterfeiting has raised its head a number of times this year. Now global market research and consulting company, MarketsandMarkets, has released a report on what counterfeiting means to the packaging ...
Tags: Packaging Market, Packaging
Global adhesives provider HB Fuller has launched a new hot melt adhesive Advantra True for Europe, which is made from renewable raw materials. HB Fuller claims that the adhesive is produced with a significant percentage of renewable raw ...
Tags: renewable raw materials, hot melt adhesive, Agriculture
The Colour Carton Company (CCC) which is a part of the UPAC Group, will acquire the solid board and litho/lam division of the East Kilbride manufacturer, The Central Box Company (CBC). The CCC specialises in box manufacturing, print, ...
Global barrier films supplier Toppan Printing will be constructing a new plant in Georgia which will use innovative technology to produce environment-friendly packaging. The new plant will help the company strengthen its capacity to ...
Tags: environment-friendly packaging, food packaging industry, Agriculture
Gidue, an Italian manufacturer of printing and converting solutions for the labels and packaging industry, has installed a flexo press at the facility of India-based converter Speclabels. The 370mm, 8 colours wide printer is an MX, ...
Tags: label industry, flexo press, Agriculture
Green Bay Packaging has bought Midland Container and Great Lakes Packaging from Chicago-based Arbor Investments for an undisclosed amount. Both the companies that were owned by Midcon Holdings specialize in manufacturing custom point ...
As AUSPACK begins its countdown to the March exhibition, it has already signed up 43 new exhibitors, who will bring 150 new brands, to the show. “Our new exhibitors include Daxner Soren Asia Pacific, Advanced Machine Technology, ...
Tags: AUSPACK, March exhibition, Packaging