BTHA's Rebecca Deeming gives us the lowdown on the latest issues facing the toy industry. It’s been a busy last month for the BTHA having held our second BTHA Training Hub seminar for members, taking on the topic of Tackling Modern ...
Tags: Toy Fair 2018, Toy Safety
Ecolab has unveiled new food safety and water management solutions at Drinktec 2017, which was held during September 11-15 in Munich, Germany. At the trade fair, the company demonstrated new dosing pumps with advantage of precision, ...
Tags: Ecolab, Food Safety
India-based TCPL Packaging has further invested in KBA-Sheetfed’s three Rapida 106 presses, in a bid to enhance its production operations. TCPL already commenced operations of one press at its facility in Silvassa, while the second ...
Tags: food packaging, packaging
Germany-based labelling and inspection systems developer Multivac Marking & Inspection is expanding its Enger production facility in Germany with a €2.5m investment. The project includes an extension to the production hall, which ...
Tags: Multivac, inspection systems
Fibre paperboards manufacturer Metsa Board said its new paperboard cup design, ‘Lidloc’, has been chosen as a finalist in the prestigious 2017 PPI Awards. The Lidloc design was chosen for the Packaging Innovation category, ...
Tags: Fibre paperboards, Metsa Board
Cup Noodles has launched their first-ever instant noodle cup containing one full serving of vegetables: Cup Noodles Very Veggie. Following last year's landmark recipe change, which featured a significant sodium content reduction and the ...
Tags: Cup Noodles, Vegetables
US-based Nadco Tapes & Labels has invested in Mark Andy’s Digital One label press to minimize its downtime. Digital One is a small foot print dry-toner digital label press with high capacity. Digital One, the entry-level unit, is ...
Tags: Nadco Tapes, label press
The KHS Group, a manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food and non-food industries, will launch a compact labeler, Innoket Roland 40, at Drinktec 2017 trade show to be held in Munich, Germany, from September 11 to ...
Tags: Compact Labeler, Spirits Bottlers
San Diego-based craft brewery Coronado Brewing is acquiring a majority interest in Monkey Paw Brewing. The move allows Monkey Paw to share in Coronado’s resources, further developing the brand, while simultaneously maintaining the ...
Amazon is reportedly building its own messaging app called Anytime that will function like WhatsApp, with added extras to make group chats and video chatting way more exciting. According to the Amazon-centric site AFTVNews, Amazon let ...
Brewer Science has announced the extension of its partnership with Arkema to develop second-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) materials using high-x (chi) block copolymers. Brewer Science indicated these new materials target ...
Tags: Brewer Science, Node Patterning
A new fruit packaging solution which features Sirane's shelf-life extending technology has demonstrated significant shelf-life extension with punnets of cut fruit. The new packaging range has been developed in collaboration with Ilip, an ...
Tags: Packaging Solution, Packaging
French-automaker PSA Group has received approval from the European Union antitrust authorities for the acquisition of Opel and Vauxhall brands from General Motors. Through the acquisition, PSA plans to make profitable growth not only in ...
Evrything, the Internet of Things (IOT) Smart Products Platform for consumer products, has announced industry-first connection of GS1 identifiers with the IOT industrial scale. With this integration, consumer goods brands can use billions ...
Tags: consumer product, industrial scale
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a Hanergy company) and PowerOasis of Swindon, UK are partnering to develop the first reference design for integrated solar and lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery power systems for small unmanned aerial vehicles ...
Tags: Alta Devices, batteries