This week's featured reports from the just-food store includes research on emerging markets, ingredients, packaging and commodities. EMERGING MARKETS Demand in Emerging Markets in the Food and Beverage Industry - 2012–2013 : ...
Tags: emerging markets, ingredients, packaging, commodities
At the end of June 2012, Wrap launched the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement with the broad aim of reducing food and associated packaging waste. But what does this mean for the foodservice packaging sector and what steps can be taken to ...
The Indian pharmaceutical industry is known for its success story and provides employment to millions of people.It ensures that all essential drugs that are available to common man at an affordable rate.The science based industry in India ...
Tags: India, pharmaceutical industry, machines
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 2:29:57 PM The World Packaging Organization (WPO) signed a cooperative agreement at the end of November 2012 with Ipack-Ima Spa to support and promote the exhibitions ...
Tags: WPO, Ipack-Ima Spa, packaging culture
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 6:04:39 PM Barely a month after PACK EXPO International 2012, show owner and producer PMMI announces The Brand Zone at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013 is nearly sold out. ...
Tags: Packaging InnovationsTM, Containers&Materials Pavilion, Brand Zone
Watson Standard has acquired certain assets of Delta Coatings Corporation, a privately-owned coatings company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of coatings for the general industrial and packaging industries. Acquiring ...
Tags: acquisiton, coatings, general industrial coatings marketplace
Swedish food processing and packaging solutions provider, Tetra Pak is set to increase the carton recycling rate in Arabia to 20% by 2020 from the existing 3%. Tetra Pak Arabia environment manager Mohamed Angawi addressing the importance ...
Tags: packaging solutions, carton recycling, greener packages
Market intelligence and information management company in the US, Industry Intelligence has announced a new collaboration with the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) through its i2partnership initiative. Industry Intelligence CEO ...
US-based American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN), as part of its ongoing efforts to increase the recovery of used packaging materials, is making its Product Recovery Knowledge Map (PRKM) available to the public free ...
Tags: packaging, AMERIPEN, packaging materials
The warning comes ahead of a seminar that Age UK will be hosting on 5 May which will explore accessibility of packaging for older people. An Age UK survey, published last year, shows that nearly half of over-65s can struggle to take lids ...
Tags: packaging, older people, seminar
Indian designer and manufacturer of packaging materials Nichrome has opened its new research and development (R&D) facility in a bid to develop and set new standards to scale up the country's packaging industry. The new R&D centre ...
Plastic packaging company Quinn Plastics & Packaging said it has acquired a Kiefel KMD 85 thermoformer in an effort to become a major player in rigid food packaging. The machine is the first major investment by the company into packaging ...
Tags: packaging, machine, packaging machinery
US-based manufacturer and distributor of flexographic plate processing equipment and materials Anderson & Vreeland has announced the launch of a new and expanded line of AVantage liquid photopolymers formulated for printing in the packaging ...
Tags: Liquid Photopolymers, plate processing equipment, signage applications
The global PET market is expected to reach $48.4 billion in 2016, up from an estimated $23.3bn in 2010, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6% from 2011 to 2016, according to a report published by Transparency Market ...
Tags: PET market, growth, demand, packaging
World Bank Group’s member, International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to invest around $45m in SRF Industries (Thailand) and another $40m in the company’s South African business. The proposed investment in the Thailand's ...
Tags: Foreign Arms, bi-axially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate