UK based packaging manufacturer Benson Group will be organising Theatre of Food at Packaging Innovations 2015 which will be attended by Masterchef 2010 Dhruv Baker. The show will also have a team of designers displaying their expertise ...
Tags: carton packaging designs, Beverage, Whiskeys, Agriculture
Packaging firm Vetroplas has launched a new range of tubes using in-mould labelling technology in the UK. The tubes have been designed by the company's Franco-Spanish tube manufacturing partner CTL/Tuboplast. With this launch, ...
Linx Printing has unveiled a new ink, known as Linx Black PE Ink 1130, offering improved adhesion to polyethylene (PE) and most polypropylene (PP) applications. The Linx Black PE Ink 1130 ink is suitable for non-contact food packaging ...
Total holiday retail sales, which include November and December sales, increased 4 percent to $616.1 billion, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. The results were just shy of the National Retail Federation's projected forecast of 4.1 ...
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New York-based investment company Gramercy Property Trust has acquired Alpha Packaging’s 211,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Overland, Missouri, for $11m. The property in the St. Louis County, which serves as ...
Tags: food, beverage, pharmaceutical industries, Agriculture
Cargill India is set to commence production at its INR5bn ($78.8m) maize milling unit in Karnataka in June 2015. The plant, which is said to be the company's first maize unit in India, will be capable of processing around 800 tonnes of ...
Tags: bakery, confectionery, snacks, beverage, Agriculture
Holiday sales as compared to overall annual retail sales have been trending downward for about a decade. Holiday sales in 2013, at $663.5 billion, were 18.7 percent of overall retail sales, well below the peak of 19.6 percent seen in 2004. ...
Tags: Gifts, Shoppers, Sporting Goods
Green Biologics Inc. has announced the successful closing of its acquisition of the assets of Central MN Ethanol Cooperative LLC (CMEC). Green Biologics intends to repurpose the operation, which includes a 21 million gallon per year ethanol ...
Tags: paints, coatings, adhesives, inks, cosmetics, Construction
INDA, the association for nonwoven fabrics industry has nominated four finalists for the fourth annual Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered (RISE) Fabrics Conference Durable Product Award. The RISE Durable Product Award is ...
Tags: light materials, airlaid products, tensile features, Textile
INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry has initiated an independent research study to understand direct content, format, and branding details for the newly combined INSIGHT+VISION conference. 13,000 professionals in the ...
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
If you're a factory operator, you want to know what's happening now, not hours ago. Gebo Cermex' EIT (Efficiency Improvement Tool) gives operators real-time access to key plant data to optimise packaging line efficiency and to increase ...
Tags: factory, key plant data, Packaging
Plastic container manufacturer SIPA has acquired all processes related to the production of injection-stretch-blow molding (ISBM) equipment at Italy-based PET packaging company Automa for an undisclosed amount. The company said that ...
Tags: ISBM Equipment, Agriculture
PET and plastic packaging supplier Petainer has been named as the reserve bidder for the purchase of APPE with a bid of approximately €300m. Petainer will be getting financial backing from Next Wave Partners and KKR Asset Management ...
Cardia Bioplastics Limited (ASX: CNN) has signed a terms sheet with privately held Stellar Films Group (Stellar Films) under which a merger of the businesses of the two groups is proposed. What is the goal? The idea is to create a ...
Tags: Bioplastics, Films, Packaging