Due to the increasing demand for fibre-based packaging based on renewable materials, Stora Enso Speciality Papers broadens its MediaSet basis weight offering; the line is now available in basis weights of 80, 90 and 100 gsm. Specially ...
Tags: Renewable Materials, Packaging Materials, Fibre-Based Materials
It's a staggering figure – around 2.9m tonnes of food and drink is wasted each year, according to Wrap. It's a number that's been troubling politicians and environmentalists but it is a problem that packaging can help tackle. And ...
Tags: Flexibles, food shelf, Wrap, packaging
Supplier of monolayer, coextruded, and barrier films for flexible packaging NEX Performance Films has merged with Charter Films, a provider of polyethylene film for food packaging, tag & label, surface protection, have agreed to merge their ...
Tags: NEX, Charter Films merge, flexible packaging, packaging
Swedish multinational food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has acquired Minneapolis-based Filtration Engineering company, a US based membrane filtration technology company for the dairy and cheese industries. The terms and ...
Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
Tags: food, drink, wasted, Packaging, flexible plastics, keeping food fresh
Aluminium tray maker The Nicholl Group has completed a restructure of its manufacturing network that has involved moving production to the UK from a German facility The business has ended production at its subsidiary Bachmann’s site ...
Food packaging is approximately a$340 billion industry worldwide.In the U.S.,about a third of household waste is food packaging,and much of this cannot be recycled. Gifts totaling$2.2 million from The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation ...
Tags: sustainable Packaging, Rochester Institute of Technology, America
The French parliament has voted to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby food packaging, a chemical which is suspected to have a toxic effect on the brain and nervous system. The ban is set to take effect in 2013 for use in packaging ...
Tags: ban the use of bisphenol A, baby food packaging, toxic effect
Posted by Rick Lingle,Technical Editor--Packaging Digest,12/19/2012 4:26:01 PM Canadian Plastics Industry Association(CPIA)released a new report that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011.An ...
Tags: CPIA, plastic recycled, packaging, polystyrene
Aluminum foil tray supplier in the UK Nicholl Group has restructured its manufacturing activities in an attempt to deliver better production efficiencies as well as improved customer service. As part of the restructuring,the company ...
Stora Enso Speciality Papers has expanded its MediaSet basis weight offering, owing to the increasing demand for fiber-based packaging based on renewable materials. The new paper is available in basis weights of 80, 90 and 100gsm. ...
Tags: Stora Enso, Speciality Papers, MediaSet
U.S. Army research and development centers are collaborating to design new ammunition packaging that could yield significant cost savings and improve battlefield capability, officials say. Two organizations within the U.S. Army Research, ...
Quinn Glass Elton is delighted to announce they have gained an "A" grade from a recent audit carried out on behalf of the BRC against the standard for which specifies the safety, quality and operational criteria required within packaging ...
Tags: Quinn Glass Elton, Construction, David Pipe
Max India has announced the sale of its biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film unit Max Speciality Films (MSF) to Treofan, a German global developer of BOPP film for Rs5.4bn ($97m). Max India managing director Rahul Khosla said the ...
UK-based Tri-Star Packaging has unveiled its new packaging range, Nibble Box, which is suitable for holding a vast array of foods, from breakfast fruits and pasta salads to other options such as tapas, meze, and tortilla wraps. The new ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging Range, PET pack