Feedstock issues and supply tightness have driven up North American prices for suspension PVC and solid polystyrene resin since Feb. 1. But a different feedstock and lower demand served to send regional prices for PET bottle resin down in ...
Tags: PVC, Polystyrene, vinyl chloride
Last year was an important 12 months for the dairy packaging industry. The sector continued to develop with pace, and landmarks were achieved in areas such as design and materials. Looking ahead, the saying usually goes, out with the ...
The installation was for a new company set up to serve the whole southeastern region of Asia. When Thai businessman, Pongsakorn Pongsak established the General Beverage Company Limited in his home country, he was entering the beverage ...
The recycling of rigid plastics excluding bottles rose to nearly 1.02 billion pounds in 2012, an increase of 10 percent over 2011 and triple the amount recycled in 2007 when the industry first began tracking rigid plastics recycling. The ...
STetra Pak is the engine room of Australia's dairy drive in Asia. It is getting drink manufacturers into better shape in an increasingly cluttered market. And it is giving the good old milk bottle a long life run for its money. Now it ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, drink manufacturers, better shape
asha and Danae Goldsmith had a mission: "To create a cider for those who 'don't like cider' and obviously for those who already do." Sasha was born into the hospitality industry and created Cellar d'Or just over 10 years ago. He and wife, ...
Tags: Packaging Design, Sasha and Danae Goldsmith, Endless Originality
There are all kinds of labeling equipment available in the manufacturing world, just like there are all kinds of packaging styles and methods that are being used across industries and countries. Since different products require different ...
Tags: labeling equipment, packaging needs, Packaging&Printing
Spring Fair International 2014, an i2i Events Group exhibition, opened its doors on February 2 2014 at The NEC, Birmingham, welcoming over 66,500 retail buyers, including more than 5,250 from overseas, a 2 per cent increase on last ...
Two lots of Pfizer's antidepressant drug Effexor XR (venlafaxine HCl) are being recalled because they may contain capsules of another drug called Tikosyn (dofetilide), which is used to treat heart rhythm disorders. The recall also ...
Tags: recall, potentially fatal consequences, abnormal heartbeat
To buy, or not to buy? That is the question for the more than 5 million annual visitors to New York's wineries. Cornell University researchers found that customer service is the most important factor in boosting tasting room sales, but ...
Tags: Service, Winery Sales, New York's wineries
Alongside changing consumer habits, there have been recent developments in technology meaning there is now opportunity for manufacturers and suppliers to be more creative than ever before. So, what developments should we be looking out ...
Tags: innovation trends, Personalised packaging, Pack differentiation
Skate bearings generally last a long time and require little maintenance. If you ride them in the rain or through some puddles then it might be a good idea afterwards to give them a strip and regrease just to stop them rusting too fast. ...
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Coles sells a lot of bottled water. Its own brand of bottled water comes in 24 pack cartons sold for $8. There's almost no personal cost to wearing this decade's hot fashion accessory. The environment is wearing the cost. So Coles is doing ...
Popular bourbon brand Wild Turkey has launched a new spiced bourbon in Australia, which it says is the first-ever spiced Bourbon from the “Island of Kentucky”. At 86 proof, Wild Turkey said its Wild Turkey Spiced bourbon ...
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Tetra Pak has won a 2014 International Forum Packaging Design Award (the iF award) for Tetra Evero Aseptic—the world's first aseptic carton bottle for ambient white milk. The package was recognized by the jury of some 50 ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Package Design