Plastic bottle recycling in the US had gone down by 2.4% to a little over £2.9bn in 2016, according to a new industry report. The figures were revealed by Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and the American Chemistry Council ...
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More than 150 organizations globally endorsed a new statement that proposes to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging worldwide. The organisations supporting the initiative include M&S, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia, British Plastics Federation ...
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Forum Research study has revealed that majority of people in Canada consider plain packaging for cigarettes is an unnecessary waste of government resources. Commissioned by JTI, the new research showed that eight out of ten Canadians ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has granted its motion for a preliminary injunction against SGL Carbon LLC, a ...
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Boxes and Packaging has designed new packaging for UK-based online craft beer retailer Beer Hawk, helping to deal with Christmas seasonal demand. Boxes and Packaging (Doncaster) or B&P Doncaster has designed an array of gift and transit ...
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Ecommerce analytics firm Profitero has found the construction toy firm is still number one with consumers. LEGO is the brand leading the ‘most wished-for’ product list in the toys & games category online running up to the ...
India-based Creative Graphics has invested in Esko’s platforms, in a bid to enhance its production operations. India’s largest packaging prepress and flexographic plate provider has expanded in the past three years with its ...
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Technology company Continental has developed a central input device to further advance the development of automated driving. The Smart Control input device informs vehicle occupants if automated driving or manual driving is possible and ...
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With an aim to rival against the two best-known electronics giants, Apple and Google, Amazon.com Inc., an American e-commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, launched its latest version of smart speakers, ...
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Duplo is launching its DuSense DDC-810 sensory coater on its IPEX stand F300 at the NEC in Birmingham from 31 October to 3 November 2017. Experts from Duplo and its distributors will be on hand to provide demonstrations of this and other ...
Chickpea puff brand Hippeas has designed new packaging for its sweet and smokin’, and cheese and love variants. Tesco and Asda stores will stock both variants, which are packed in bold yellow packets. The new packaging clearly ...
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Atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology firm Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has reported repeat sales of automated P-300BV vacuum batch production systems to major Asian discrete device manufacturers. Even if the 300mm wafer size ...
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The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...
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China's direct investment in Pakistan from July last year to June this year stood at US$1.19 billion, up 11 percent year-on-year and accounting for 49 percent of the total foreign direct investment in Pakistan, according to the National ...
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Terminator and Game of Thrones have all inspired board games, taking the property from the big screen and applying it to a humble game. Here, Nicki Gumbrell, sales director at Gibsons, reviews why TV and film has such a huge presence in the ...
Tags: Terminator, Game of Thrones