Sun Chemical, along with acpo, will exhibit expanded offering at this year’s Labelexpo event in Belgium to promote smart and cost-efficient solutions for narrow web, flexible packaging converting. The event will take place from 25 ...
Tags: Sun Chemical, Label Market
Consumer goods maker Unilever has unveiled a new technology to tackle the worldwide issue of plastic sachet waste. Unilever, along with the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, developed the new technology, ...
Tags: Consumer goods, Unilever, plastic
Sun Chemical will increase the price of all inks and coatings containing acrylic derivatives effective May 15, 2017. Disruption in the production of certain building blocks used in the making of inks and coatings, such as styrene and ...
Tags: Sun Chemical, Inks, Coatings
Optomec said its printers were highlighted at the Grand Opening of the University 3D Printing Research (U3DP) facility at Hong Kong Polytechnic. Hong Kong Polytechnic currently owns an Optomec Aerosol Jet system for 3D printed electronics ...
Tags: 3D Printers, printing machine
A report from Smithers Pira expects global bioplastics for packaging industry to be worth $7.2bn, at an average rate of 17% per year between 2017 and 2022. According to the report - The Future of Bioplastics for Packaging to 2022, ...
Tags: Packaging Market, bioplastics, packaging
Switzerland based packaging firm Tetra Pak has launched two new portion size packages to meet the demands of the on-the-go beverage market. The new packages, the Tetra Prisma Aseptic 200 and 250 Edge with DreamCap 26, are designed to ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Packages, Beverage Market
Specialty chemicals maker Clariant is offering improved formulations of Cesa-extend masterbatches for restoring key material properties to recycled condensation polymers such as PET, PLA, and polycarbonate for high-value packaging ...
Optomec, a leading global supplier of production grade additive manufacturing systems for 3D Printed Metals and 3D Printed Electronics, will feature its new LENS Machine Tool series for 3D printed metals and Aerosol Jet 3D printers for ...
Tags: Optomec, LENS Print Engine
Drake Plastics has unveiled the capacity and facility expansion of its medical products operating unit, which was launched in February 2016. Drake Plastics Medical was formed to better serve the specialized requirements of the medical ...
Tags: Drake Plastics, Medical Products
US startup Mango Materials is testing a new process for biodegradable plastics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit. By using bacterial fermentation process, the startup is engaged in the ...
The Tisch University Chemistry and Chemical Biology professor Geoffrey Coates and his team has worked with a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota to develop multiblock polymer, which could boost plastic recycling. ...
Green chemistry firm Carbios has developed a new technological solution for recycling of opaque polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics such as milk bottles. Since 2012, the company has been involved in developing an enzymatic recycling ...
Tags: Carbios, Opaque Plastics
Stora Enso is set to invest around €9m into its consumer board mills in Finland and Sweden, as part of its efforts to commercialise microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) in paperboard packaging. The firm will invest in consumer board ...
Tags: Paperboard Packaging, Stora Enso
Sun Chemical is set to exhibit its metal decorating ink solutions at the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum (ADF) 2017 in France. The company will showcase its portfolio of inks for monobloc, tube and aerosol cans at the event, which will take ...
Tags: Sun Chemical, Metal Decorating
Sun Chemical has partnered with Canadian firm Young Flexographic to provide packaging printers across Canada. The partnership is intended to provide packaging printers with quick access to conventional, high definition and flat-top-dot ...
Tags: Packaging Printers, Packaging