Indiana companies that use discarded materials such as glass in their products are urging lawmakers to pass a bill requiring refundable deposits on beverages sold in recyclable bottles and cans. Verallio North America vice president ...
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US-based Dole Food has completed the sale of its worldwide packaged foods and Asia fresh businesses to Japanese firm ITOCHU for $1.68bn in cash. The sale included a major portion of Dole's operations and assets, including exclusive rights ...
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Sola Bee Farms Honey Packaging, a project developed by UNIT partners, was chosen as one of 242 award-winning designs in the most recent HOW International Design Awards. This highly selective and well-regarded competition sponsored by HOW ...
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According to the latest glass recycling industry data - published by the European Container Glass Federation (FEVE) - the average glass recycling rate in the European Union has risen above the 70% threshold for the first time. This means ...
Promens has announced the addition of new range of PET bottles to its range, in a bid to address the growing demand of PET bottles and jars from the cosmetic brands. The new ranges are available in standard cylindrical or oval shapes to ...
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Glass recycling across the EU has reached 70% for the first time, although the UK's performance is below this average. The European Container Glass Federation (FEVE) figures showed that 70% of glass was collected for recycling across the ...
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Transporting fluids in bulk would be a gargantuan task. It is no easy feat since you would really have to find a suitable container for the fluids. Unlike solids, you cannot just box them up or wrap them in some packaging material. You ...
Recycling glass is easy, and glass containers returned for recycling help to make new glass bottles and jars. Recycling glass has big environmental pay offs. It saves raw materials, lessens demand for energy, and cuts CO2 emissions. ...
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Starting Out Right From the time we start preparing a room for a new baby, we are making choices about the child's environment. Many people get ready for a new child by painting, papering, and carpeting a baby's room with conventional ...
What do toffee, volcanic lava; enameled baths and Perspex have in common? They are all examples of what has been called the fourth state of matter-they are GLASSES, just as much as a bottle or windowpane. A glass is a material with the ...
Dent Resistant - Compact Formpack Manufacturer: Amcor Flexibles Award: Silver - Technical Innovation Package Description: Amcor's newest Formpack can be inserted without denting into an overpack designed for child resistance or ...
Canadian retailer Loblaw has added lines of "healthier" foods to its flagship own label President's Choice. Loblaw has launched products including cereal, yoghurt and side dishes into the range. "Research shows that eighty-five percent ...
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The Gerresheimer Group’s high quality pharmaceutical packaging products and systems are part of a leading international portfolio. The products are manufac-tured in diverse designs, to a wide range of specifications and tailored to ...
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Around the world almost without exception in the hollow glass field, cullet is used to supplement raw materials in the batch. In fact nearly all modern furnaces require cullet to be present in order to function at all. Cullet is therefore ...
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Cans Get You Cooking is a national, integrated multi-year campaign launching in February to drive center store sales by getting cans out of the pantry and onto the table. The integrated Campaign launch coincides with National Canned Food ...
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