IMA Industria Macchine Automatiche will be acquiring 80% interest in five companies - Benhil, Erca, Gasti, Hamba and Hassia - which currently form the Oystar Group. The newly formed company will function under the name IMA Dairy&Food ...
US-based Menasha Packaging has acquired a flexographic press to meet the growth in demand for its products. The company provides graphic consumer packaging, merchandising solutions, corrugated packaging, food packaging, shipping ...
Tags: merchandising solutions, corrugated packaging, food packaging
Manufacturer of flexible packaging machinery The Comexi Group has entered into a deal with two European companies to install its Comexi Offset CI8 printing press. The companies, one from Austria and the other from East Europe, are ...
Swedish food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has launched a new Environmental Benchmarking Service to help food and beverage companies assess the environmental performance of their production operations. The service helps in ...
Elopak has launched a range of beverage cartons that are made of certified renewable polyethylene (PE), said to be the first for the European market. Another first for the company is that Elopak has used second generation renewable PE, ...
Macro Engineering and Technology, suppliers of film and sheet extrusion systems, has developed a universal winder which can wind either wide sheeting or narrow films on center. This configuration makes it the best choice for winding ...
Tags: Macro Engineering, Winder
PolyOne Corporation, a global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, has announced the acquisition of specialty assets from Accella Performance Materials, a leading North American manufacturer of liquid polymer ...
Tags: polymer materials, Construction
In July 2014 Huhtamaki announced that as a result of its growing strategic focus on food packaging it had started to evaluate options regarding its films business. The annual net sales of the films segment were €187m in 2013 and the ...
Tags: Films Business, Packaging
Finland-based packaging company Huhtamaki will be selling its films business to German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs for $175m (€141m). Huhtamaki is known for supplying paper cups to McDonald's. The company stated ...
Tags: food packaging, Films Segment, Agriculture
We all need to eat – and that means we all need food packaging, with most of us handling some form of food pack several times every day. Whether it’s the cereal box at breakfast, the sandwich packet at lunch, perhaps a snack in ...
Tags: food packaging, food pack
Norwegian carton producer Elopak has developed the Pure-Pak sense carton that has been designed to help combat food waste. The easy-to-fold carton line claims to enable users to fold the carton and squeeze out more of the product from the ...
Tags: food waste, easy-to-fold carton, Agriculture
US-based Liqui-Box, a liquid packaging company, has opened a new facility in China. With this new 120,000-ft2 facility, Liqui-Box expects to reach its growing customer base in Asia markets. ChinaDaily quoted Liqui-Box Asia-Pacific ...
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
There were 230 entries submitted into this year’s German Packaging Award. NMP Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of KHS, wowed the judges by putting together two of its prototypes. NMP’s Direct Print and Nature MultiPack ...
Tags: German Packaging Award, Packaging
FSANZ has released a consultation paper seeking further information on the management of the migration of chemicals from packaging into food. “Food packaging has many benefits - it allows food to be transported, prevents ...
Tags: Chemical Migration, Packaging