India-based insurance and hospitals group Max India is set to divest its bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films business for about Rs8bn ($152m), as part of plans to exit its non-core business. Max India is in advanced ...
A provider of chemical and plastics solutions Borealis, and Nexeo Solutions, a plastics distribution company, announced that they have inked a distribution agreement to offer Bormed products, specially dedicated to healthcare applications ...
Tags: plastics distribution, PP, PE
Loitta has chosen Greiner Packaging International with its Carinthian location with option for 800ml bottles to package its range of sauces. According to the firm, it was looking for a partner who could offer quality at strategic ...
Tags: Packaging, Sauce Bottles, bottles
Dubai-based biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BOPP) producer Taghleef Industries (Ti) has closed the previously announced deal to acquire Applied Extrusion Technologies (AET Films), a North American supplier of oriented polypropylene ...
A research conducted by Ecobilan tracking the journey of fish and shellfish has found expanded polystyrene( EPS) boxes preserve the seafood more efficiently than the alternative materials. The studies reveal that in seven of the eight ...
GE Capital, Corporate Finance has provided a $143m cash flow credit facility for Taghleef Industries, a UAE-based producer of plastic and packaging films. The financing was used by the company to acquire Applied Extrusion Technologies ...
Manufacturer of pharmaceutical and food packaging machinery ORICS has collaborated with Spartech Packaging Technologies, a subsidiary of Spartech, to provide a food packaging technology, 1-Seal. The new 1-Seal is a re-sealable packaging ...
Tags: pharmaceutical and food packaging, food packaging technology
US-based packaging company Sonoco has completed the 18,000ft2 expansion of its thermoforming location in Waynesville, North Carolina. The company plans to start up a new multilayer, trim-in-place line, which will facilitate the production ...
Supermarket chain in the US, Weis Markets has partnered with custom thermoformed packaging solutions supplier Clearly Clean Products to develop new meat trays that are 100% recyclable. The new modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) trays are ...
Tags: Recyclable Meat Trays, Meat Trays, Trays
Midwest Exchange Enterprises has announced that it will set up a new plant for recycling of food-grade post-consumer PET. Likely to be situated beside its existing recycling plant, the new facility spreads over an area of 120,000ft2 with ...
Tags: Recycle Food, recycling of food-grade, post-consumer PET
Williams Energy will apply in early 2013 to Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board to build a natural gas liquids and olefins processing facilities in the province, even as it aims to add a new petrochemical value chain, the ...
Exopack has established a new manufacturing center of excellence for its pet food business in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in a bid to sustain its position in the development and manufacture of packaging solutions for the pet food market. ...
Tags: Pet Food Packaging, Pet Food, Food Packaging
The production of ethylene and propylene has been fully resumed at Stavrolen petrochemical complex (a LUKOIL subsidiary) in Budennovsk. Both these substances were then forwarded to units producing polyethylene and polypropylene. Thus, ...
Tags: ethylene production, propylene production, ethylene, propylene
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (Chevron Phillips Chemical) congratulates Saudi Polymers Company (SPCo) and its joint venture partner, National Petrochemical Company (Petrochem), as the joint venture’s manufacturing facility ...
Global innovation leader Milliken & Company announced that the company has opened a regional headquarters in Shanghai. Leveraging its long presence in the region, Milliken’s new Asia headquarters combines sales, marketing, design, ...
Tags: combines sales, Milliken Company, floor covering design studio