US-based private equity firm L Catterton has offered to buy 27.9% stake in Scottish craft brewery Innis & Gunn for £15m. Founded in 2003, Innis & Gunn claims to have risen to the second position for a craft brewer in the UK ...
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US-based B&G Foods is extending its line of Green Giant frozen veggie swap-ins with new Green Giant Veggie Spirals. The pasta alternatives initially will be available in zucchini, carrots and butternut squash varieties. They are ...
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Mondi Extrusion Coatings has developed an environmental friendly paper bag solution to be run on Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) machines. SKOG for Food saves up to 70 percent plastic while retaining all the required barrier properties. SKOG for ...
Tags: FFS Machines, Paper
Feilo Sylvania, a lighting vendor owned by China-based Shanghai Feilo Acoustics, has announced its entry into the Taiwan market by launching LED light tubes, bulbs and streetlamps. Shanghai Feilo Acoustics acquired an 80% stake in ...
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GAC Motor, China-based automaker, has unveiled two SUVs, the 5-seat GS7 and the GS3 in watertown Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China. These two next-generation SUVs, which have inherited the excellent genes of the GAC Motor family, are ...
Canada-based Agropur Cooperative has signed an agreement with Agrifoods to acquire Ultima Foods. Ultima Foods was a 50-50 joint venture by two of Canada’s leading cooperatives; Agrifoods and Agropur. With more than 40 years of ...
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AWT Labels & Packaging has secured two packagePRINTING Excellence Awards. First Place: Sustainability-Labels, for the innovative structure and design of Green Bottle Compostable Water Bottle Label; and Second Place: Labels – ...
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Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has reported repeat sales of automated P-300BV vacuum batch production systems to major Asian discrete device manufacturers. Even if the 300mm wafer size ...
Tags: LED lighting, MEMS
Ardagh Group said its latest beverage can finishing will integrate the trending combination of matte and glossy surfaces. The finishing, dubbed Matte & Mirror Impact, diversifies the company's finishings portfolio. The company claims ...
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Dairy products supplier Arla Foods has set up a new sales and packaging facility in Accra, Ghana. Arla, owned by 11,200 farmers, is planning to expand its business in Sub-Saharan Africa by selling its products including powdered milk ...
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Komori Europe Corporation and Highcon Systems have entered into a strategic selling agreement, further strengthening the existing Highcon relationship with Komori in Japan and America. Komori Europe is in the process of installing a ...
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Corrugated shipping containers manufacturer Rusken Packaging has acquired Great Southern Industries. Founded in 1962, Great Southern Industries manufactures corrugated containers in its 189,000 square foot facility located in Mississippi. ...
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Sun Chemical has formed a new partnership with Spectracorp to repackage some of the Streamline solvent inkjets inks into containers of different sizes, including cartridges and pouches, as required by North American customers. This ...
Tags: Sun Chemical, Solvent Inkjet Inks
US-based industrial packaging company Grief has reported net sales of $961.8m for the third quarter ended 31 July 2017, compared to $845m in the same quarter a year ago. The firm reported a gross profit of $187.1m, compared to $176.5m in ...
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Hybrid Software will exhibit its complete workflow and editing solutions at Label Expo Europe 2017. The increasing demand from printers and trade shops for innovative packaging production software has delivered significant growth for ...