Swiss supplier of carton packaging and filling machines SIG Combibloc plans to invest euro 36m at its South American packaging plant near Curitiba in Brazil’s Paraná state to install an extrusion line that will allow it to ...
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Ardagh Group, a global leader in glass and metal packaging solutions, today announced that it has made a binding and irrevocable offer and entered into exclusive negotiations with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain to purchase from it the entire ...
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Ardagh Group has started started 'exclusive negotiations' with France based Compagnie de Saint-Gobain to acquire Verallia North America (VNA) in a transaction worth $1.7bn. Muncie, Indiana headquartered Verallia North America is the ...
Intelligrated, a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, announces the successful acquisition of Knighted, a provider of supply chain software solutions. The acquisition is a strategic component of ...
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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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The 1-PAL pallet, an innovative Australian-designed and manufactured pallet system, is set to provide companies with significant warehousing, freight, environmental, safety and cost benefits. The high-performing plastic 1-PAL pallet is ...
Tags: supply chains, 1-PAL pallet, pallet system, high-performing
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 : ...
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Glass container manufacturer Ardagh has agreed to acquire US-based Anchor Glass Container from private investment funds managed by Wayzata Investment Partners in a deal worth €721m ($880m). Ardagh chairman Paul Coulson said the ...
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Ardagh Group has secured US regulatory approval and completed the previously announced acquisition of Anchor Glass Container in the US for $880m (€721m) from private investment funds managed by Wayzata Investment Partners. The deal ...
Tags: Anchor Glass, Anchor Glass Container, glass containers
Verallia North America, a manufacturer of glass containers for food and beverage industries, has introduced a new line of yogurt glass jars in the US. The new line features four and six ounce capacity single serve yogurt glass jars. The ...
Tags: glass container, food, beverage, yogurt glass, jars, yogurt glass jars
Israel-based nutraceutical ingredients company LycoRed has received European patent for its proprietary extraction process of the Lyc-O-Mato oleoresin from tomatoes. This process of extracting the natural tomato complex is the basis for ...
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Increase in global manufacturing output, growth in consumer spending on packaged goods worldwide and increasing urban populations are key factors in for an increase in rigid packaging demand, according to a report entitled, World Rigid ...
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DMA, an industry provider in beverage formulations, compounding and aseptic packaging, will exhibit its expanding services and new product opportunities on 7-8 November 2012 at SupplySide West 2012 in Las Vegas, NV. The company committed ...
Tags: Beverage Packaging, aseptic packaging, non-aseptic technologies
US-based 3M Food Safety has announced that its Listeria detection system, 3M Tecra Listeria Visual Immunoassay (VIA), has received validation from the AOAC Research Institute's Performance Tested Methods Program (AOAC-PTM). 3M noted that ...
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US-based 3M Food Safety has announced that it has received AOAC-PTM Certification for the 3M Molecular Detection Assay Listeria for Environmental Testing from the AOAC Research Institute's Performance Tested Methods Program. The 3M ...