Global reusable packaging solutions provider Ifco Systems has entered into a partnership with Sealed Air to ensure that all IFCO reusable plastic containers washed with the latter’s product, Diversey (detergents and disinfectants) ...
Tags: IFCO, Food Safety, Printing
Menasha Packaging Company, which specialises in graphic packaging and product merchandising solutions, is investing about $5m to expand its Hartford facility. This expansion will help the company create about 70 jobs. The Neenah-based ...
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Contract packaging specialist, Multipack, knows that many manufacturers need highly flexible short or long-term food packaging solutions without major capital outlay. So it has added a new pouch filling line to its food-accredited ...
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At the 30th anniversary AUSPACK in 2015, next gen processing machinery will be one of the major areas of interest. According to Luke Kasprzak, portfolio director, Industrial Division, Exhibition and Trade Fairs, “companies such as ...
Tetra Pak, a Switzerland-based provider of food processing and packaging solutions, has launched a new carton that is made from 100% plant based, renewable packaging materials. The new Tetra Rex carton is said to be the first plant-based ...
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This next generation end-of-line adhesive is specially designed to help manufacturers deliver a more sustainable future for the packaging industry. Based on a significant percentage of renewable raw materials it delivers impressive ...
Tags: H.B.Fuller, Raw Material, Hot Melt Adhesive
US-based glass and packaging manufacturer M.A. Silva has completed the acquisition of Vintners Global Resource's (VGR) packaging business for an undisclosed amount. Head quartered in Washington, VGR supplies imported and domestic wine ...
Tags: M.A.Silva, Packaging Business, Food
Packaging solution providers Amcor has launched a new range of coloured closures for wine bottles that will be made available in the next two weeks. The new range of closures will be available in 24 different colours for its Stelvin ...
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Irish paper-based packaging producer Smurfit Kappa has agreed to acquire corrugated packaging manufacturer Bates Container for an initial investment of $150m. Bates makes corrugated packaging and provides its services to the Texas region. ...
A deferred payment of around $7.5m (4.6m) is to be made at a later date to Bates, which employs 320 people and has a 135,000 tonnes of containerboard requirement. The deal, which will be funded from Smurfit Kappa’s cash reserves, is ...
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Specialty chemicals producer Clariant has signed a purchase agreement with VitaPac, the Chinese specialist for healthcare packaging, for an undisclosed amount. VitaPac produces innovative, technology-driven product lines that ensure ...
Investment firm Larsen MacColl Partners has acquired packaging solution providers S Walter Packaging for an undisclosed amount. S Walter works on designing, sourcing and delivering coordinated packaging solutions to branded consumer ...
Few things illustrate our country’s packaging problem as acutely as the post-Christmas cleanup. New electronics toys, of course, can be blamed for a good part of the clutter. Heaps of boxes and plastic packs — often impossibly ...
The chocolate pralines are crafted in Europe, and special attention has been taken post production in designing and packaging. The design and manufacture of the packs was a joint collaboration with Pearlfisher, AiR Innovation, Multi ...
UK-based folding carton supplier rlc | packaging group has entered into an agreement with industry package leaflets specialist Pharmadruck rotaflor to increase its production capacity. Both companies are working towards coming up with ...
Tags: Rlc|Packaging Group, Capacity, Printing