Brian Welt, coordinator of the University of Florida's packaging-engineering program, believes many students share a common misconception when it comes to packaging jobs. "A lot of students don't even know it's a career," he told ...
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Industry Intelligence Inc., a market intelligence and information management company serving the forest products, packaging, and food and beverage industries, today announced a new partnership with the Institute of Packaging Professionals ...
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Private equity firm Graham Partners announce that it acquired Wisconsin-based Scandia Plastics, a manufacturer of blow molded bottles, containers, and light industrial parts, for an undisclosed sum. According to Graham Partners, in ...
New research by Canadean Consumer reveals a notable difference in opinion between younger and older consumers in the U.K. when it comes to presumptions about "lighter weight" packaging. The vast majority of consumers are receptive to the ...
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Italy-based cosmetic packaging industry Lumson has created a bottle for the product 'L'Huile' for Opalis, the French brand in the hair cosmetic industry. 'L'Huile', a standard cosmetic packaging collection, was entirely designed, ...
Demonstrating its commitment to optimizing packaging materials recovery in the United States, the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) will release the preliminary results of a survey of recovery activities in the ...
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Contract packaging services provider Assemblies Unlimited has announced the launch of its new sister company Packaging Quote.com, in a bid to expand its footprint in the packaging industry to include stock packaging materials. The ...
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The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment’s (Europen) managing director Veronique Bagge, who was appointed seven months ago, has quit the organization. Earlier in January, she replaced Julian Caroll as the ...
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Italy-based Favini is presenting the launch of Crush, a new paper dedicated to the packaging industry, at Luxepack 2012. Crush is said to be the the first and only range paper made with by-products from organic products replacing as much ...
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England-based CPI has put its corrugated packaging at the forefront to protect goods in transit and promote brands on their store shelves. CPI packaging director Andrew Barnetson said that while retailers were becoming more demanding in ...
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US-based SGS International, a provider of design-to-print graphics services to the consumer products packaging industry, has acquired Stevenson Color through its wholly owned subsidiary, Southern Graphic Systems, for an undisclosed sum. ...
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The application range for aluminium products is steadily expanding. To address changing end user needs and survive intense competition, manufacturers are modernizing their production facilities and broadening their product portfolios. In ...
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Design-to-print graphics services provider SGS International has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Southern Graphic Systems acquired Stevenson Color in the US. Stevenson Color, which provides graphics services to branded ...
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The diversification of packaging products has brought great impact to glass bottle manufacturers.After experiencing severe tests of the market,glass bottle enterprises begin to shine again in packaging industry.Several consumers worry about ...
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Ever since the introduction of the unique substance called Plastic,it has always been a thing of controversies and discussion.Right from the manufacturing of the material till the stage of its disposition and degradation-environmentalists ...