Clondalkin Pharma and Healthcare North America has installed a manroland sheetfed 708 coater perfecting press with InlineFoiler to its pharmaceutical packaging production facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. The facility produces ...
An independent research study commissioned by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), revealed 65 percent of decision makers at Fortune 500 consumer product companies ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, steel, consumer packaged goods
Austin Packaging (APC) is all set to cease the frozen pizza manufacturing sector of its business, which accounts for about half of its business, owing to the decline in customer demand within the pizza industry. The company, which ...
Scotland is planning on introducing plain packaging for tobacco products in efforts to meet an ambitious target to cut rates of smoking across the country The Scottish government said it wanted a tobacco-free Scotland by 2034. It wanted ...
Tags: Scotland, Tobacco Packaging, Plain Packs
The organisations have signed a memorandum to deliver the development courses for packaging professionals. The partnership will develop a higher level master’s course which focus on packaging design but also explore the wider agenda ...
Tags: IoPP, Faraday Centre, New Packaging Degree
Tobacco companies have stated that plain packs could easily be copied, but a new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health said security features could still be used on standard packs. The group said that public ...
Tags: tobacco packs, packs, packing
Mickelson is a recent graduate of the Pratt Institute of New York and has been working on a concept called ‘The disappearing package’, in which he demonstrates how, with a simple re-design, much of a package can be minimised or ...
Tags: packs, packaging, packaging industry
The company's former logo, which has been in use since Rap was founded in 1997, has been redrawn. The firm said that this will allow for more flexibility across all applications but retains Rap's existing distinctive red colour. Due to be ...
Global packaging and paper products company International Paper (IP) has inked a deal with US-based Highwoods Properties to expand its headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, through construction of a new $56m office tower. As part of the ...
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA) has announced the support of its FD-Series Spectrodensitometers by CyberChrome’s OnColor Color QC and Color Matching Software. Released in 2011 the FD-Series Spectrodensitometers were the ...
Tags: OnColor Color QC, Color Matching Software, CyberChrome
Almelo, the Netherlands: PANalytical, the world's leading supplier of analytical X-ray equipment and software, is set to launch its new software for X-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems. PANalytical developed Stratos, a brand new software ...
Tags: software, XRF systems, coatings, surface layers
Henkel will introduce a full range of new adhesives and coatings portfolio for the flexible packaging industry. The company will introduce its new solvent-free laminating adhesives from the Liofol LA 7777 family that are suitable for high ...
Scientists in the University of Lincoln, UK are working to create a flexible computer system which can be used to detect faults in food products and packaging on the production line. The 823,277 Trainable Vision-based Anomaly Detection ...
The Institute of Packaging Professionals and The Packaging Society are the latest associations to align itself with North Print & Pack 2013, which takes place on 14-16May in Harrogate. This year’s edition of the biennial show ...
Krones, A&D Australasia, BASF and Festo are just four of the 270 companies who will be exhibiting at AUSPACK PLUS 2013. Krones Pacific will be showcasing the KSB 6R series on stand 616. The KSB 6R series are PET blow-moulding machines ...
Tags: Krones, A&D Australasia, Electrical