Dematic has launched a new high-density storage for warehouse operations, the Colby Push-Back Pallet Racking. Colby Push-Back Pallet Racking provides high-density storage where pallets are stored up to six pallets deep. Using a forklift, ...
Tags: warehouse, storage, Pallet Racking
Multisorb Technologies will be participating at Pack Expo in Las Vegas, September 28-30, 2015 with a focus on its clean label capabilities for food processors and packagers. The demand for cleaner and consumer friendly labels has left ...
Tags: Packagers, Food Processors
The U.S. prepared meals market, one of the largest in the world and a leader in per capita consumption, is maintaining strong growth, resulting in increased opportunities for packaging solutions that satisfy consumer demands in terms of ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Prepared Foods
British packaging distributor Kite Packaging has completed the acquisition of Golden Valley Pallet Wrap Specialists for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition covers goodwill and certain assets of Golden Valley. However, the deal does not ...
Tags: Kite Packaging, Golden Valley
In 2014, China’s lithium battery equipment market size (excluding imported equipment, the same below) ascended by 31.0% year on year to about RMB3.8 billion. Impacted by explosive development of the new energy vehicle market, CATL, ...
Complete Core Business Solutions has launched a new division that will offer contract packing and filling services to the £21.5bn food and drink sector in the UK. The new business, Complete Co-packing Services, will fill, pack, ...
Tags: packing and filling services, Co-packing, non-EU market
UK-based brewery Northern Monk Brew is offering its core beverage - beer in a can form. The cans are available through their online store and offered at local beer stores. It claims to have become one of the first breweries in the UK ...
Tags: Northern Monk Brew, beer, Leeds
Sonoco Alloyd, an arm of global packaging company Sonoco, has developed a new dispensable packaging system integrated with thermoformed technology. The new DivvyPack allows easy dispensing of product and convenient storage of unused ...
US-based food processing company Cargill is investing $100m to double its soybean crush operation in Borg El Arab in order to meet the increasing demand in Egypt for soybean meal and oil. The company will construct 42,000 metric tonne ...
Tags: food processing, soybean crush
PPG Industries has announced that it has completed its acquisition of IVC Industrial Coatings, Inc., a U.S.-based specialty powder and liquid coatings manufacturer with 2014 sales of more than $100 million. Financial terms were not ...
LPG prices in south and east China's wholesale markets slid this week, despite stronger crude oil futures at the end of the week, due to a rise in domestic inventories, trade sources said Friday. Many refineries and LPG import terminals ...
Tags: LPG prices, crude oil
Anton Paar's new Powder Cell has been designed to turn every rheometer from the renowned MCR series into a powder rheometer and in this way brings the full array of traditional rheological methods to the field of powder. Now it is possible ...
Tags: Powder Rheology, Rheometers
Asahi Kasei completed its acquisition of Polypore International. On February 23, 2015, Asahi Kasei announced a definitive merger agreement to acquire Polypore through a US subsidiary. This acquisition was completed on August 26, 2015, US ...
Tags: Asahi Kasei, Polypore
Barton Fabrications has installed eighth silo at Plastipak Packaging’s plant in Gresford,UK, as part of the latter’s £10m project to upgrade its preform manufacturing platform. Barton Fabrications, which has its forte in ...
Tags: drinks bottles, PET granules
The premium and stylish Kia Cadenza sedan has earned AutoPacific's 2015 Ideal Vehicle Award (IVA) in the Large Car category (tie). AutoPacific's IVA is based on over 66,000 surveys completed by new-car owners in the first half of 2015 and ...