The LED lighting market in China is expected to double in size from 9.6 percent to 18 percent of all lighting used in the next four years, according to a recent growth forecast from Lux Research. This growth will be spurred by falling ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Market
PET preform moldings are much in demand as PET bottles are used extensively for various purposes. Although earlier this technology was limited to only the SIDEL Company of France and the KRONES Company in Germany, nowadays, it is not the ...
Tags: PET, plastic bottles
Necessity is the mother of invention, which is as true for package development professionals as for garage tinkerers. We spoke recently with Aron James Clarkson, designer-inventor and CEO of StarOne Group, who says he's in business to ...
In 2013 the Chinese LED packaging market has grown far quicker than the global average, reckons TrendForce's Green Energy Division LEDinside. LED lighting is still the largest application sector, accounting for 42% of the 2013 Chinese LED ...
Tags: LED, LED Packaging, Electrical, Electronics
I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
Since 2010 the government began reducing corporation tax in stages, falling from 28% to 23%. This will be cut to 21% from April 2014 and will reach 20% in 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. While the government ...
Ardagh claimed three of the top prizes at the annual UK Packaging Awards presented at a glittering ceremony in London. Josh Brooks ( Event Organiser) Robert Fell (R&D Manager, Aerosol & Speciality Containers, Ardagh, Crosmières), ...
Tags: decoration, vehicle-glass
In a quiet corner of Milton Keynes sits the head office of Cerulean, a company of 120 people focused on the business of designing and manufacturing quality control instrumentation and packaging test and measuring equipment. The company ...
Polylactic Acid (PLA) is thermoplastic polyester derived from renewable feedstock such as corn starch, sugarcane, wheat, tapioca roots. PLA has wide application such as in Packaging, Textile, Agriculture, Transportation, Bio-Medical and ...
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Having designed and manufactured folder gluer lines since 1942, BOBST is the world leader in this field. Their original machine, the PCR 382, right through to today's high productivity models, developed through research and development to ...
Austria-based plastic packaging manufacturer Alpla has opened new manufacturing facility at Bowling Green in Kentucky Transpark, US with an investment of about $22.4m The new facility is located in spec Building IV in the Transpark and ...
Tags: plastic packaging, Packaging
The country is only one glass plant, the capacity of which is missing. Recently in Kazakhstan discussed the problems and prospects of the domestic packaging industry. In particular, a question was raised about importing glass from China and ...
Tags: Domestic Market, Glassware
Avery Dennison has been named winner of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute's (TLMI) 2013 Supplier Award for Environmental Leadership for the third time in the award’s history. Avery Dennison is the first company to be ...
Tags: Avery Dennison, Tag, Label
US-based printing paper supplier Mac Papers has acquired packaging products distributor Alles in Hialeah, Florida. The acquisition includes Alles' offices and distribution centers at Tampa and Jacksonville in Florida and Louisville in ...
Tags: Mac Papers, Packaging Products
Like most nascent technologies, digital print is a hotbed of innovation, with countless R&D hours being poured into developing higher speed, wider web presses, achieving single pass production and improving colour consistency. But how ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, digital printing