The US Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) has undertaken The Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds campaign to address the decline of paper usage and drum up support for packaging. With an investment of $20m, the campaign will fund ...
Tags: Paper, paper Packaging, paper box
Paper producer Parenco has selected German engineering firm Voith Paper for renovating its manufacturing unit at Renkum, Netherlands, and converting paper machine 2 (PM2) to a packaging output line. The graphic paper maker is investing ...
Tags: graphic paper, packaging
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 ...
Tags: Packaging Business, Siam Cement
US-based Atlas Holdings has acquired the North American Foam Trays and Absorbent Pads (TAP) businesses of Sealed Air Corporation for an undisclosed amount and launched its new operating company Novipax. Novipax will be operating five ...
Tags: Atlas Holdings, Air Acquisition, Packaging
Research facility plays key role in Finnish paper chemicals firm's sustainability plans At a temperature-controlled Kemira laboratory in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, one can find lab workers and technicians huddled over consoles ...
Sweden-based renewable packaging material provider BillerudKorsnäs will invest around $35.28m (SEK260m) to increase its production capacity and improve the quality of sack paper produced at its Skärblacka facility. The company ...
North Carolina governor Pat McCrory has sanctioned a $12m grant to help Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton adhere to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) guidelines. The mill has been asked by the EPA to replace units that ...
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The plants in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan convert (sheet and rewind) bleached paperboard, and also feature finishing departments and distribution centres. After the purchase, Atlantic will employ over 900 people and will be ...
Paper and board packaging is the most widely used packaging material in the UK. It has been growing year-on-year since 2009 and in 2013 increased by 1.8% in 2013. Its forecast is healthy too – a growth of 6.3% is expected over the ...
Voith Paper, a division of Voith Group, has delivered three paper machines to China-based Sun Paper. The two medium-sized packaging paper machines PM 31 and the PM 32 with a wire width of 7.3m will be installed at the Sun Paper's facility ...
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Packaging and paper group Mondi subsidiary Mondi Neusiedler is set to invest €3.6m in an automated reel finishing and packaging line to focus on high-speed inkjet reel market. The investment will be used at its UFP facility to serve ...
Tags: Packaging Line, Packaging
US-based Minerals Technologies (MTI) has signed an agreement with Zhejiang Zhengda Paper Group to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Zhejiang Province, China. Expected to be operational in the fourth quarter ...
Stora Enso positions itself as the global rethinker of the biomaterials, packaging, paper and wood products industry. Its goal is to keep innovating solutions based on renewable materials for consumer goods and industrial packaging ...
Tags: Travel Packaging, Packaging, Printing
International packaging and paper group Mondi has commenced the operations of its new €70m machine in tětí, Czech Republic, which produces white kraft paper. With a capacity to produce around 155,000t of paper a year, ...
Tags: Paper Machine
Finland-based Valmet will supply two pulp drying lines to Klabin's new plant in Ortigueira in Paraná, Brazil, as part of a supply contract. According to Valmet, the pulp dryer investment is part of Klabin's Puma project, and a ...
Tags: Valmet, Pulp Drying, pulp dryer