The appointment was made as the firm works to broaden its content led play strategy and explore new opportunities to deliver content directly to consumers. Hasbro has elected Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns as an independent ...
Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded eight seed grants totaling about $1.5m for new research in clean technology and energy ...
Manufacturers of flexible plastic, laminate packaging and technical films Bischof + Klein have been given a certification that it meets high hygiene requirements for the packaging of food products. This certification was confirmed by ...
Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
Tags: manufacturing site, technology, Packaging
Flexible packaging such as plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches makes up nearly a third (32%) of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, however virtually all of this 556,000 tonnes produced annually ends up in ...
Evonik has started up two new plant units for the production of cat its multi-user site in Wesseling. With triallyl cyanurate (TAC) and triallyl isocyanurate (TAICROS), the company now offers two high-quality crosslinking activators for use ...
Tags: multi-user site, Construction
Sony is taking dramatic measures in its response to a devastating hacker attack on its movie studio. Sony Pictures Entertainment has had a large proportion of its dirty laundry aired on the internet, with thousands of private emails ...
Tags: Sony, Consumer Electronics
China-based label convertor Suzhou Advance Printing (Yali) has installed a Xeikon 3030Plus digital label press with the help of its long-term partner United Printing. The press is entry level and is a part of the Xeikon 3000 Series ...
Tags: Printing Gets, Digital Label, Agriculture
Mondelez is an enthusiastic early uptaker of new technology. It launched its mobile technology initiative, Mobile Futures, in October 2012 internationally to help it drive more impulse purchases and better in-store marketing, with an open ...
Tags: Calendar, mobile technology, Packaging
Macro Engineering and Technology, suppliers of film and sheet extrusion systems, has developed a universal winder which can wind either wide sheeting or narrow films on center. This configuration makes it the best choice for winding ...
Tags: Macro Engineering, Winder
Fourth-generation networking has only begun its slow global arrival, but Chinese network equipment maker Huawei and his partner plan to test a 5G network in 2018. Of course, nobody will actually will have 5G-capable phones then, but ...
Tags: 5G Network, smartphone, huawei
The Leicester-based company has been developing a solution to combat the very bacteria that has been at the heart of the current chicken packaging scare. The FSA said of the 70% of chicken, 18% of it was contaminated at the very highest ...
Tags: bacteria, contaminated chicken, Packaging
Range spans everything from pencil cases to a melting Storm Trooper. Tobar is launching a new official Star Wars line from Blue Sky next month. The new Star Wars range includes a Light Beam Pen, Light Saber Pens, 3D A5 Notebook, 3D ...
Tags: Star Wars, Light Beam Pen, 3D A5 Notebook, Toys
UK-based supplier and contract slitter of flexible packaging materials Lean Flexibles has installed a X6 slitting machine from Universal Converting Equipment. The machine has helped the company to minimise job set up times, produce ...
Tags: Lean Flexibles, Slitting Machine
Cardia Bioplastics Limited (ASX: CNN) has signed a terms sheet with privately held Stellar Films Group (Stellar Films) under which a merger of the businesses of the two groups is proposed. What is the goal? The idea is to create a ...
Tags: Bioplastics, Films, Packaging