The 20th annual CHINACOAT will be held November 18-20, 2015 at Halls E2, E3, E4, E5, E6 & E7 of the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), P. R. China. The show will present the entire coatings spectrum – covering raw ...
Tags: printing inks, adhesives, powder coating, Construction
For coatings producers one of the big benefits of the sharp fall in oil prices in the second half of last year (2014) should be a drop in raw material costs. Some commentators are also predicting a rise in demand due to the effect of ...
Tags: Oil Prices, Raw materials, Construction
The Hain Celestial Group, a US-based organic and natural products company, has announced that its subsidiary Hain Pure Protein Corporation (HPPC) has entered into a new agreement with Panera to supply Plainville Farms breast meat raised ...
Tags: vegetarian diet, breast meat, Agriculture
Global supplier of apparel labeling solutions ITL Group (ITL) said it has inked a joint venture with Codes and Labels Ltd, a privately owned Bangladesh supplier of labels, packaging and trims. Under the terms of the agreement, the Codes ...
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 ...
Colour management system and software solution provider X-Rite Europe will demonstrate its newly developed product range at Stand H23 in Packaging Innovations, NEC Birmingham on 26-27 February 2015. Among the hardware and software ...
Tags: Packaging Innovations, customer education, Agriculture
Barry Snyder has joined Axalta Coating Systems as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Snyder will report to Axalta Chairman and CEO Charlie Shaver and be responsible for all of the company’s research and ...
Tags: VOC products, alcohol division, Construction
Engineered Printing Solutions continues to revolutionize the product decoration process by progressively expanding the advanced printing solutions they offer. They are now offering new and improved FlexiCure UV LED curable inks which they ...
Tags: UV LED curable inks, Health
RadTech, the non-profit trade association for UV+EB technologies, has announced its board of directors for 2015. Peter Weissman of Quaker Chemical Corp. has assumed the RadTech presidency while Lisa Fine of Joules Angstrom UV Printing ...
Two baby and toddler food companies: Beech-Nut is 123 years old, Rafferty’s Garden is 7. Both lead with peak nutrition claims. Beech-Nut makes glass packaging part of this. Rafferty’s Garden uses flexible pouches. Let’s ...
Tags: glass packaging, baby food, Packaging
Specialty chemical supplier Mayzo Inc. has appointed Van Horn, Metz & Company, Inc. as its North American distributor of additives to the plastics, coatings, inks, adhesives, rubber and lubricants markets. “Van Horn, Metz has been ...
Tags: plastics, coatings, inks, adhesives, Construction
Netherlands based producer of textile printers, SPGPrints said it offered its key customers a sneak preview of its new single-pass digital textile printer, scheduled for launch at ITMA 2015 in Milan. Over a two-week period visitors from ...
Tags: Digital Textile Printer, print-bar technology, Textile
Cardia Bioplastics has secured a two-year supply contract with Cleanaway and has received its first year order to deliver 7.8 million Cardia Compostable kitchen tidy bags and 50,000 Kitchen Tidy Bins for commercial roll out. Cleanaway ...
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
Specialty chemicals Group Altana has acquired two companies in Brazil. As a result, the Actega division now has its own sites in South America's largest country. Both of the acquired companies are owner-operated and headquartered in the ...
Tags: packaging industry, overprint varnishes, printing inks, Construction