Plastic packaging manufacturer Berry Plastics Group has completed the acquisition of Graphic Packaging’s flexible plastics and film business. According to Berry Plastics, Graphic Packaging, through its flexible plastics and film ...
Tags: Berry Plastics, Flexible Plastics
RPC Containers Corby has developed a new Artemis jar designed for a packing dried, powdered and granulated products such as nuts, instant coffee and infant milk formula. According to the company, the high barrier material of the jar ...
Tags: Dried Food Packaging, Food
Suffolk-based Spectra Packaging has introduced an "environmentally friendly biopolymer" to its range of products. According to the company, it can now offer its customers plastic packaging made from ethanol from sugarcane as opposed to ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a new high-power amplifier suited to C-band radar and ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, Electrical, Electronics
Mpact Plastic Containers has introduced its new returnable transit packaging product 'Jumbo Bin' for agricultural market and general industry. The new 528mm shallow bin can be used for storage and transportation of more delicate products ...
Tags: Plastic Containers, Packaging Bin
Renewable chemicals and biofuels company Gevo has opened its demonstration-scale plant in Silsbee, Texas, US, backed by Coca-Cola and Toray Industries to manufacture renewable plastic component Paraxylene. The company is working with The ...
Tags: Plastic Component, Packaging
Consolidated Container Company (CCC) has ordered for three L42 4-cavity and one L32 3-cavity PET stretch-blow machines from Canada-based Amsler Equipment to expand its PET bottle production. The rigid plastic packaging solutions ...
Tags: Consolidated Container, Pet Bottle
Cosmetic companies are making slow progress in reducing their packaging footprints. Although the cosmetics industry has become preoccupied with green initiatives, few steps have been made to tackle the environmental impact of packaging. ...
Tags: Cosmetic, Cosmetic Packaging, Printing
Huhtamaki Oyj has announced plans to establish a new plant in Russia's Tatarstan Republic. The plant, which will come up in the Alabuga special economic zone, will produce paper, plastic packaging, and disposable tableware, ...
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Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
Paper, paperboard distributor and converter in the US Semper/Exeter Paper has launched a flexible packaging films division. The company also inked a deal with Evert-Fresh as the master supplier and distributor of Evert-Fresh products ...
Tags: Semper/Exeter, Flexible Packaging
Sapphire Coast Smoked Fish has recalled Eden Smokehouse Smoked Mussels Mexican Chilli in Australia as it may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The recalled ...
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The Pancake Parlour restaurants in Melbourne in partnership with Cardia Bioplastics will implement a ‘go green strategy’ to cut down the carbon footprint using Cardia’s environmentally friendly customer carrier bags. As ...
Rigid plastic packaging producer Amcor Rigid Plastics has announced that all manufacturing facilities have earned or will earn certification by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a global retailer-driven program that seeks continuous ...
In a statement published today (1 August), the global packaging giant said the time was right to split its Australasia and Packaging Distribution (AAPD) business from Amcor's other operations. Amcor said the demerger of AAPD into a ...