Two baby and toddler food companies: Beech-Nut is 123 years old, Rafferty’s Garden is 7. Both lead with peak nutrition claims. Beech-Nut makes glass packaging part of this. Rafferty’s Garden uses flexible pouches. Let’s ...
Tags: glass packaging, baby food, Packaging
On 12 November, Packaging News organised a conference in conjunction with British Glass, bringing together members of the UK glass industry to discuss ways of improving recycling in Britain. The central London conference included talks ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Recycling
France-based Saint-Gobain is in the process of putting its glass packaging unit Verallia up for sale to focus on higher-margin home and construction products, with Ardagh confirming that it is monitoring the sale of the unit. The company ...
Last month the EU proposed a tough set of waste recycling targets that have been met with much resistance by the packaging industry. The new proposals revolve around the aim for 80% of packaging waste materials to be recycled by 2030. ...
Mexico-based glass manufacturers Vitro has signed a $950m deal with its client Constellation Brands to produce 7.3 billion beer bottles over the seven-year life of the contract. The deal is expected to triple Vitro's current volume of ...
Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) has designed new bottles for Lucas Bols' Damrak Dutch Gin. The new bottles, which have been developed as part of a line extension, include 70cl and 1-litre sizes for foreign markets, ...
Tags: Bottle, Packaging, Printing, Packaging Bottle
British glass packaging manufacturer Beatson Clark has developed a new lightweighted bottle for the packaging of Robinsons Brewery's Old Tom ale, under a partnership with glass packaging specialist Rawlings. Manufactured at Rotherham ...
Luxembourg-based Ardagh Group has signed a 15-year agreement with West Yorkshire-based Reuse to expand glass recycling in the UK. The company has joined forces with the Australian recycling and waste management company United Resource ...
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KPS Capital Partners, through its newly formed subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Ardagh to acquire Anchor Glass Container and its affiliates. KPS partner Jay Bernstein said Anchor Glass is positioned well to supply the expanding ...
Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) has developed a new glass packaging called Covet Classics for Colombian rum producer Fabrica de Licores de Antioquia (FLA). The new glass bottle has been designed for FLA's limited-edition ...
Tags: glass bottle, developed, packaging
Ardagh is currently negotiating a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) of the antitrust complaint on the basis of proposals made by Ardagh on 11 December 2013. These proposals involve Ardagh divesting six ...
Tags: FTC, VNA, Tampa, Ardagh Group
Glass container maker, O-I New Zealand (O-I NZ), hosted an education program for glass collectors in Palmerston North to maximise the amount of recycled glass (cullet) recovered from households across the city. In December last year, ...
Tags: glass, decoration
The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) has finished the year on a high note, with its 2013 annual report revealing strong progress in all its major activities and putting it on track to meet its strategic targets for 2015. APC chief ...
The amount of money the Palmerston North City Council is making out of recycled glass looks likely to double since new glass collection trucks went on the road in January. The drivers of the trucks sort glass into colours at the kerb, ...
Tags: Truck Recycled Glass, Recycled Glass, Glass, Construction, Decoration
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Glass Packaging Market Report - Forecasts to 2019" report to their offering. Glass packaging has various advantages such as chemical stability, sterility and reusability. ...
Tags: Construction, glass