Thailand-based industrial conglomerate Siam Cement hopes to jack up 5-10% sales out of its paper and packaging this year, banking on demand from Southeast Asian countries. Domestic growth, however, is expected to be around 1-2%. Siam ...
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Henkel Adhesive Technologies India, an arm of German consumer giant Henkel, will pump in €30m ($34m) into a new adhesives unit in the state of Maharashtra. Expected to be operational by early 2017, the new manufacturing unit will be ...
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Cosmo Films has a growing interest in the Australian market, and its range of specialty films with barrier properties shows it has much to offer. Barrier properties are increasingly important for packaged food products, and Cosmo Films ...
Plastic packaging and coatings company Coveris Holdings has acquired Elldex Packaging Solutions, a division of Hellaby Holdings, with packaging businesses in New Zealand and Australia. Elldex manufactures and imports HDPE and LDPE ...
Tags: Hellaby's Packaging, Packaging
The HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press - a web-fed version of HP Indigo's wider press platform – was one of 20 products awarded by the European Digital Press (EDP) Association last week. Bringing home the trophy for 'best packaging ...
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It approached the bank after outgrowing its former base and purchased a 21,373 sq ft unit on Gresley Business Park, Swadlincote. Director Paul Horobin said: “The assistance offered by NatWest has been brilliant. With their help we ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, packing shapes
H.B. Fuller has introduced two new flexible packaging adhesives, promising manufacturers savings in time and cost. The adhesives, Flextra Fast and Flextra Reseal, were launched at ICE Europe in Munich, Germany. The Flextra Fast SFA ...
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AR Packaging will invest €3m in the newly acquired plants at Krakow in Poland and Graz in Austria. With the investment at the two facilities, the German company is expecting to strengthen its foothold in the European packaging ...
Clondalkin Kirchberg has developed an aluminum-free PE-based foil for butter wraps. The butter foil comes in 10 different colors, and promises sturdy dead fold similar to aluminum. Clondalkin claims that its foil has same ...
Wellness Natural Pet Food will be using Velcro’s Press-Lok closure for packaging its premium TruFood line. Wellness TruFood is the newest line of pet food recipes for dogs and cats with nutrients of whole prey protein, raw ...
North East Lincolnshire-based Ultimate Packaging is remodelling its food standard factory and investing around £4m to install two additional Bobst F&K 20SIX flexo presses for increasing production capacity and flexibility. The ...
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Germany-based Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Wentus has developed a new barrier film for dry food products that claims to stop the entry of potentially harmful mineral oils from the outer packaging into food. The multi-layer barrier ...
Global packaging company Sonoco will increase its production capabilities and support R&D innovation through several projects in the coming years. The company made the announcement at its annual shareholders meeting. Sonoco said that ...
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Spanish packaging machinery solutions provider Comexi Group has launched Comexi NEXUS L20000, a water-based laminating machine specially designed for the HP Indigo 20000 digital press. The company said that the new machine is faster ...
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The full financial year ending September 2014 saw TCL exceed the £10m sales barrier for the first time, capping off a record year with sales growth at over 10%. Sales figures have continued at this level for the first six months of ...
Tags: UK market, TCL Packaging