Irish food ingredients company Kerry Group has acquired three U-based companies Red Arrow Products, Island Oasis and Biothera Inc’s Wellmune for $735m, a move that will usher the company’s growth in nutritional solutions market. ...
Show owner and producer PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, reports preliminary data for PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2015 and the co-located Pharma EXPO (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 28-30) shows a four per cent ...
Tags: pack printing, barrier packaging materials, sealing technology
Dairy Innovation Australia Limited (DIAL) has announced the sale of DIAL culture production unit and strain collection to Danish biotechnology company Chr. Hansen A/S and its Australian subsidiary. The sale of the unit is in line with the ...
Tags: dairy, food, beverage, fermentation technology
Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, is presenting its customized humidity control solutions in pharma packaging at pharmaceutical networking event, CPhI Worldwide 2015. Standard desiccant products, which Clariant also supplies, ...
Tags: pharma packaging, desiccant products, Healthcare Packaging
On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries announced conclusion of their negotiations. The summary of the TPP Agreement is as follows: Disclaimer: The Following Summary of the Trans-Pacific ...
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Pharmaceutical packaging provider Palladio Group and electronic ink technology company E Ink have launched PhutureMed, a new pharmaceutical packaging solution. The new PhutureMed pack comes with E Ink display and sensors that will ...
Tags: Palladio, E Ink, Pharma Packaging, folding cartons, labels
UVLrx Therapeutics announces that it has received CE marking to commercially sell its UVLrx 1500 multi-wavelength, intravenous light therapy system in the European Union. The UVLrx 1500 System offers the first intravenous, concurrent ...
Tags: UVLrx, UV LED Therapy Device, EU Consumers
Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, has announced that its healthcare packaging manufacturing facility in Belen, New Mexico, has achieved ISO 15378:2011 certification for products manufactured for healthcare applications, including ...
Tags: Clariant, healthcare packaging, desiccant canisters, containers
MGS Machine introduces the Pulse, a new high-speed friction feeder, at Pack Expo Las Vegas. Featuring five patent-pending design innovations, the Pulse eases maintenance with fast and easy removal of wear parts. With no tools required, ...
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Closure Systems International's (CSI) capping equipment designers, systems engineers and closure designers collaborated to develop the Intelli-Torq Servo Capper. This computer-controlled capping machine continuously monitors and ...
Tags: Closure Systems, Capper, glass bottles, plastic bottles
Discovering how to unboil an egg has resulted in more than the perfect breakfast for one Australian academic. Professor Colin Raston from Flinders University has developed a machine called the ‘Vortex Fluidic Device’ which can ...
Tags: egg, breakfast, Vortex Fluidic Device, proteins
The Pro Mach End of Line Group, showcases at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2015, September 28-30, a host of stand-alone and integrated systems from such brands as Brenton, Currie by Brenton, DEKKA, Edson, IPak, Orion, and Wexxar/BEL. The Pro Mach ...
Tags: integrated case packing, robotic palletizing, stretch wrapping line
Morton Salt, a unit of the K+S Group, is planning to end packaging and warehousing operations at its facility in Chicago, the US. The cessation of the operations will be completed by this October-end, putting 23 jobs at risk. However, the ...
Tags: Morton Salt, warehousing, packaging
Videojet Technologies has introduced thermal inkjet printer ‘Videojet 8610’ to cater to food packaging, pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors for facilitating high-resolution coding on non-porous packaging. Capable of putting ...
Tags: Videojet, food packaging, non-porous packaging, codes
Pace Packaging, an arm of Pro Mach, will showcase bottle unscramblers ‘Omni-line Model 500’ and ‘Pharma-line Model 400’ at Pack Expo 2015 in Las Vegas in the US at the end of this month. The systems can ...
Tags: Pace Packaging, Pack Expo, Omni-line and Pharma-line machines